Services for slide digitisation - multi-modal

The requirements include the following:

• To provide a high quality, clinical grade digital pathology service.
• The successful supplier must be of reputable standard with known clinical and academic standing and engagement with the Royal Collage of Pathologists (as this is a national digitisation programme).
• Ideally based within an NHS site to allow for receipt of identifiable information from participants and not require formal MTAs for movement of slides.
• Supplier must demonstrate secure storage for identifiable glass slides.
• Deployment team already established to perform similar process, at scale (expected volumes of 4000 slides per week).
• Clear protocol for handling and anonymisation of participant information and slides.
• Anonymise, scan and digitise 200,000 histopathology slides from solid cancer participants in the 100,000 Genomes Project over one year.
• Digitisation of slides must be performed at x40 magnification on Leica GT450 scanner, in line with previous configurations and analysis.
• Supplier will need to provide scanning of selected slides on a variety of scanners for variability.
• Digital images need to be of DICOM compatible format.
• Supplier will need to have logistics in place to digitise from CellNass directly.
• Transfer these digitised slides to the Genomic England's multi-modal research environment over IBM Aspera.
• Capability to receive and store histopathology slides.
• Capability to conduct quality control protocols and scan all slides.
• Capability to store and transfer image data. Additional information: If you have not already done so, you will need to register on our Bravo portal

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Please register on the e-tendering portal (Bravo) on the link provided. Once registered, you can find the opportunity under project title Services for slide digitisation - multi-modal or the project reference "project_867"

All correspondence should be sent via the portal.