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title: "Fulfilment Partner for Surge and Pandemic Response"
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# Fulfilment Partner for Surge and Pandemic Response

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/fulfilment-partner-for-surge-and-pandemic-response-ocds-h6vhtk-066c33). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency: "Fulfilment Partner for Surge and Pandemic Response". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £900,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/secretary-of-state-for-health-and-social-care-acting-as-part-gov-ea1328)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £900,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Courier services, Packaging and related services, Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/fulfilment-partner-for-surge-and-pandemic-response-ocds-h6vhtk-066c33#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-066c33`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/fulfilment-partner-for-surge-and-pandemic-response-ocds-h6vhtk-066c33#tl-md)

## Description
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is inviting suppliers to participate in this pre-market engagement exercise to explore options for a fulfilment partner for surge and pandemic response. This engagement aims to share UKHSA’s current thinking, gather feedback from the market regarding the proposed specification, contract and tender evaluation methodology to inform the final approvals for the procurement strategy.
UKHSA is exploring the feasibility of establishing a flexible fulfilment service, which can be rapidly surged when required to support surge or pandemic response activity to provide greater resilience and flexibility across use cases as part of UKHSA's Pandemic Preparedness strategy and support the UK’s contribution to the 100 Days Mission, which targets deployment of diagnostics within 100 days of identifying a new pandemic threat.
Outside of incidents it is envisaged the service would operate as a low-volume capability a “cold state”, supporting routine activity during business-as-usual operations, this could include deliveries to care homes or other organisational and private settings. When activated by the Authority in defined circumstances, such as a pandemic declaration or surge response activation, the service would be required to scale rapidly and mobilise at pace into a “hot state”. This is likely to require a high volume of dispatches in the hundreds of thousands per day, while maintaining full regulatory compliance, data integrity, security controls, and service quality.
For certain test kits, the Supplier would be required to support outbound delivery to the end user or organisational endpoint (e.g. homes, care settings or other designated locations). Once end users have taken their samples, they would return the test kits directly to laboratories designated by UKHSA for testing, rather than sending them back to the Supplier’s warehouse or fulfilment centres, the fulfilment partner will be responsible for making these arrangements in consultation with UKHSA. 
The intended route to market is via the GCA RM6354 Courier, Distribution, Storage and Specialist Solutions Framework Lot 2b Kitting, Fulfilment and Asset Management. 
Please note, the indicative contract value below is for a “cold state” running of the contract and a hot state contract value will be many multiples of this.
This engagement is exploratory and does not represent a commitment to procure at this stage.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 60000000, 64120000, 79920000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 16/11/2026 to 15/11/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F063371-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-07-06T16:10:37.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-23T00:46:20.427Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-066c33