Official UK procurement notice
Extension to current provision of a managed laboratory service for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Authority: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNo description was published on the notice. See the official documents.
CPV: Laboratory services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
This notice relates to an extension of the current managed laboratory service to Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, during the term of which the Trust will procure a replacement contract. The current service includes biochemistry, immunology, haematology, microbiology, virology, genetics, and pathology.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0023 Concession Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/23/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 May 2024, 17:00 BST
- Last source update
- 28 May 2024, 17:00 BST
- Authority reference
C288129- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-016660- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-046bd7Find a Tender
Publisher note: This contract extension relates to the provision of a Pathology MES contract to Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (the “Trust”). This was a contract awarded from a joint procurement process with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2012, detailed in FTS/OJ: 2012/S 064-104454. Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust are part of the South 4 Pathology Network which includes Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As set out above, the South 4 Pathology Network is planning for a procurement process for a Pathology MES Contract across the network. Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust has been leading premarket engagement with interested suppliers and the planned network procurement was first detailed in the PIN notice reference: 2022/S 000-012490 of the 13th May 2022. An update to the PIN will be released in September 2024 to provide additional details and trigger further pre market engagement. It is anticipated that the formal procurement process will involve dialogue and will be conducted as a competitive flexible procedure under the Procurement Act 2023. It is anticipated that this procurement process will formally commence with a tender notice in Spring 2025. The extension period for the Trusts’ current Pathology MES contract will avoid duplication of costs of redesign required when the South 4 Pathology Network implements the re-procured solution.<br/>(Please note that due to timescales since original notice was published a new procurement system is being used the directive has had to be updated from 2004/18/EC to 2014/23/EU to allow this notice to be published as the new system does not recognise directive 2004/18/EC)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Jun 2015 → 28 May 2024 · 2 dates- Contract starts30 Jun 2015, 00:00 BST
- Notice published28 May 2024, 17:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbott Laboratories LimitedProvision of a managed laboratory service for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Provision of a managed laboratory service for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · Abbott Laboratories Limited
- Signed
- 6 Jun 2014
- Value
- £28,507,952
- Period
- 1 Jun 2024 – 31 May 2029
- Status
- active
- Change Extension to term of contract by 5 years, Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: The extension will be carried out in accordance with regulation 72(1)(b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The additional services are necessary to ensure continuity of clinical services and for technical reasons, the Trust is unable to change contractor at this stage to enable the pathology services at the Trust to be delivered. The current solution is linked to software that runs on over 30 different platforms across the Trust and is integral to the operation of the laboratories and therefore the provision of tests. This extension provides an interim solution that ensures consistency for calibration, methodology, quality control regimes, interfacing requirements for multiple complex instruments, operational requirements, and accreditation. During the extension, the South 4 Pathology Network will align operations, structures, and processes, including those associated with implementation of a single laboratory computer system in autumn of 2024. This will be the single most
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Abbott Laboratories LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.