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Community Testing: Lateral Flow Device (LFD) Testing

Miscellaneous health services
South West (UKK3)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Cornwall Council: "Community Testing: Lateral Flow Device (LFD) Testing". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityCornwall CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Coverage: 383 active published awards; 381 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityCornwall Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
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Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
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Published7 May 2021, 11:10 BST
Last source update7 May 2021, 11:10 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationMiscellaneous health services
Delivery area
South West (UKK3)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02ae44
What is being bought
Urgent Covid-19 response requirement for Community Testing to conduct Lateral Flow Device (LFD) testing services at a number of testing centres across Cornwall in order to allow businesses to book LFD tests for their employees.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    7 May 2021, 11:10 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    7 May 2021, 11:10 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    7 May 2021, 11:10 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Urgent Covid-19 response requirement for Community Testing to conduct Lateral Flow Device (LFD) testing services at a number of testing centres across Cornwall in order to allow businesses to book LFD tests for their employees.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    7 May 2021, 11:10 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 1 Mar 2021, 00:00 GMT · Not published
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Cornwall Ambulance Service Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
Not published · signed 1 Mar 2021, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
highestValidBidValue: 602000
lowestValidBidValue: 350000
bids: 1 (lot 1)
highestValidBidValue: 602000 (lot 1)
lowestValidBidValue: 350000 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Cornwall Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-215
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  • Cornwall Council
    buyer

    County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, UKK3, TR1 3AY
    jeff.goostrey@cornwall.gov.uk
    +44 1872322024

  • Cornwall Ambulance Service Limited
    supplier

    12299846
    Gloweth House Unit 10 Great Brynn Barton Roche, St Austell, UKK3, PL26 8LH

  • The Cornwall Council
    reviewBody

    County Hall, Truro, TR1 3AY
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationale1. There are genuine reasons for treating this contract with extreme urgency. The Government asked local authorities to provide a testing service for people who have to go to work during the current lockdown. 2. The events that have led to the need for extreme urgency were unforeseeable. The need for large scale LFD testing could not have been predicted as it relates mainly to the increased infectivity of the new variant of coronavirus. 3. It is impossible to comply with the usual timescales in the PCRs. The Council could conduct an accelerated procurement under the open procedure (15 days). Standard procedure with accelerated timescales of 15 days could have a significant impact on covid transmission and also business continuity at this difficult phase in the pandemic. The programme is due to run until 31st March (but may be extended). Therefore 15 days is a significant proportion of the programme timescale. 4. The situation is not attributable to the contracting authority.. Previously community testing (known as DPH led testing) was only available to LAs in Tier 3 and above restriction levels so not available to Cornwall. Most learning has come from urban models such as Liverpool. Therefore, we have no local experience and very little experience from rural areas to draw on. Since the announcement on 10th January we have been developing a workplace based model that will be run using Council staff working with local businesses to set up their own programme. This is because the need to travel to a community testing site twice weekly for testing will be considerable barrier to taking part in this scheme for many workers in our rural county. It was previously proposed that home based testing would be authorised by MHRA and previous communication from DHSC suggested this may be from 18th January. On this basis we also worked up a home testing proposal with Devon and Cornwall Police but we have now been informed that home based testing will not be authorised for this programme. On January 18th the Government announced asymptomatic testing for primary schools and nurseries. On January 21st it was confirmed that private, voluntary and independent providers would not be included and there was an expectation that these settings and childminders would be covered by LA community testing programmes. At this point the delivery model had to be revised to include some community testing sites as workplace based testing could not cover this cohort.