TB Testing

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  "date": "2025-04-24T14:32:06+01:00",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-05070e",
  "buyer": {
    "id": "GB-NHS-QXU",
    "name": "NHS SURREY HEARTLANDS INTEGRATED CARE BOARD"
  },
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    {
      "id": "016805-2025-1",
      "status": "active",
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          "id": "GB-COH-04418157",
          "name": "Revvity"
        }
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        "description": "Urgent TB screening requirement due to the high risk of spread of TB infection identified in an education establishment, college, situation with high levels of pupil and staff throughput. It is\nimperative that the identified cohort is tested as soon as possible to reduce risk of wider infection and spread. This contract is awarded due to an urgent circumstance.\nThe requirement is for a phlebotomy service to take blood from 41 people. The blood test will be an IGRA. The provider is also required to report the results to UKHSA.\nCurrent service providers for TB screening do not have capacity for community screening of more than 10 patients in any one episode of active TB, consequently blood tests and\nprocessing needed to be outsourced. \nThe lifetime value of the contract is £3,359.09 for screening of all impacted people on a single day, 23rd April 2025. Additional information: Our current service providers for TB do not have capacity for community screening of more than 10 patients in any one episode of active TB. They can provide clinical support with regards to symptom checking and urgent referrals if necessary but the blood tests and processing need to be outsourced. The urgency is to the infectious nature of TB and the nature of an educational establishment situation with high levels of pupil and staff (and potentially visitor) throughput. It is imperative that the identified cohort are tested as soon as possible to reduce risk of wider\nspread.\nThe provider selected supplies an \"on request\" national service for rapid tuberculosis diagnostics via blood test*. They are one of two organisations providing the service, with the other covering only London. \nClinical recommendation for screening and possible use of this provider from UKSHA.\nThe requirement is for a phlebotomy service to take blood from 41 people. The blood test will be an IGRA. The provider is also required to report the results to UKHSA.\n*The T-SPOT TB blood test is able to identify latent infections which, if left undiagnosed and untreated, may lead to active disease and further transmission to others.",
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              "name": "To address immediate risks to safety and quality of care",
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    "title": "TB Testing",
    "status": "complete",
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    "description": "This one off service provision is required to undertake blood tests to screen a group of 41 individuals, identified by UKSHA, as being at risk of TB infection due to contact in an educational established, a College.\nThe most relevant CPV code is thought to be 85111810-1 for blood analysis services.",
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      "id": "85111810",
      "scheme": "CPV",
      "description": "Blood analysis services"
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    "procurementMethod": "limited",
    "mainProcurementCategory": "services",
    "procurementMethodDetails": "Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition",
    "procurementMethodRationale": "There are limited occasions where relevant authorities may need to act urgently and award or modify contracts to address immediate risks to patient or public safety.\nThese circumstances include where:\n• a new service needs to be arranged rapidly in an unforeseen emergency or local, regional or\nnational crisis, e.g., to deal with a pandemic\n• urgent quality/safety concerns pose risks to patients or the public and necessitate rapid\nchanges\n• an existing provider is suddenly unable to provide services under an existing contract (for\nexample, a provider becomes insolvent or experiences a sudden lack of critical workforce)\nand a new provider needs to be found.\nTHE CIRCUMSTANCES ABOVE ARE MET.\nIn urgent situations, relevant authorities may make the following decisions without following\nthe steps required under this regime:\n• re-award contracts held by the existing provider(s)\n• award contract(s) for new services\n• award contract(s) for considerably changed services\n• make contract modifications (without limitation).\nTHE SECOND BULLET POINT ABOVE IS REQUIRED IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE. \nAn urgent award or modification must only be made by a relevant authority when all the\nbelow apply:\n• the award or modification must be made urgently\n• the reason for the urgency was not foreseeable by and is not attributable to the relevant\nauthority\n• delaying the award of the contract to conduct a full application of the regime would be\nlikely to pose a risk to patient or public safety.\nTHE CIRCUMSTANCES ABOVE ARE MET.\njustification for using the urgent circumstances exemption: \nThe current service providers for TB do not have capacity for community screening of more than 10 patients in any one episode of active TB. The urgency is to the infectious nature of TB and the educational establishment being a college with high levels of pupil staff and potentially visitor throughput. It\nis imperative that the identified cohort are tested as soon as possible to reduce risk of wider spread.",
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        "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL",
        "description": "The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive"
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      "id": "GB-NHS-QXU",
      "name": "NHS SURREY HEARTLANDS INTEGRATED CARE BOARD",
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        "locality": "Woking",
        "postalCode": "GU215BH",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "Dukes Court, Duke Street"
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        "url": "https://www.surreyheartlands.org/",
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      "id": "GB-COH-04418157",
      "name": "Revvity",
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        "locality": "Abingdon",
        "postalCode": "OX14 4SE",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "143 Park Drive, Milton Park"
      },
      "details": {
        "url": "https://www.revvity.com/gb-en",
        "scale": "large"
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        "id": "04418157",
        "scheme": "GB-COH",
        "legalName": "Revvity"
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      "name": "NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB and UKSHA",
      "roles": [
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      "address": {
        "locality": "Woking",
        "postalCode": "GU21 5BH",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom"
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  "language": "en",
  "contracts": [
    {
      "id": "016805-2025-1",
      "value": {
        "amount": 3359.09,
        "currency": "GBP"
      },
      "status": "active",
      "awardID": "016805-2025-1",
      "dateSigned": "2025-04-23T00:00:00+01:00"
    }
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  "description": "This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.\nSurrey Heartland ICB, as a relevant authority, considers that the award of this service is urgent due to the high risk of spread of TB infection The service is required to undertake blood tests to screen a group of individuals, identified by UKSHA, as being at risk of TB infection due to educational locality contact. \nThe contract is for a single day, 23rd April 2024.\nDecisions makers for this contract are: \nClinical recommendation from UK Health Security Agency Ruth Acott.\nSurrey Heartlands ICB personnel: \nClare Stone, ICS Director of Multi-Professional Leadership and Chief Nursing Officer \nNo conflicts of interest or potential conflicts of interest were identified amongst those making the decision to award. \nThe current service providers for TB do not have capacity for community screening of more than 10 patients in any one episode of active TB. The urgency is to the infectious nature of TB\nand the educational establishment being a college with high levels of pupil and staff (and potentially visitor) throughput. It\nis imperative that the identified cohort are tested as soon as possible to reduce risk of wider spread.",
  "initiationType": "tender"
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