Medical equipments

Description

“This is a Light Touch Regime notice for Health, social and specific services in accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU Regulation 74”. The Contracting Authorities have established a joint programme of work to facilitate the procurement process and to develop the requirements documentation to enable each of the authorities to award a Pathology Services contract to the winning bidder. The Contracting Authorities are looking to award contracts for the provision of pathology services under a target operating model that is compliant with the guidelines from NHS Improvement and can provide quality benefits to patients, clinicians and financial sustainability to the organisations. The current expectation is that the pathology services will need to cover the full range of pathology disciplines currently provided or commissioned by the above organisations. The detailed scope of the procurement will be issued during the formal procurement but will include the provision of a full pathology service for: — blood sciences, including blood transfusion, — phlebotomy, — microbiology, — histopathology, — molecular pathology, — specialist testing and send always, — laboratory facilities, — single IT LIMS, — logistics, — PoCT and NPT, — other pathology testing and support facilities. The aim of this notice is: 1) Notify the market of the intention of the above parties to start a formal procurement process for the appointment of a pathology service provider; and 2) Notify the market of a market engagement day where organisations will be asked to provide feedback on the procurement. The Contracting Authorities will determine the number of lots that it will be creating based on the feedback that it has gathered from the market. This will be reflected in each successive competitive dialogue tender and evaluation stage.