Official UK procurement notice
Additional Outsourcing of Genetic Testing
Authority: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe All Wales Medical Genomics Service are relocating from the University Hospital of Wales to CIGC in October 2024. To support this relocation, outsourced testing is required to provide continued support across Wales due to downtime of laboratory testing activity. The initial plan was to utilise laboratory space across NHS functions within the United Kingdom. However, due to late changes in capacity of these laboratories this is no longer feasible. Hence, the decision has been made to single award due to timescales preventing full tender and utilise Synlab Laboratories given they are familiar with AWMGS processes and able to provide the capacity and quick turnround required.
Additional testing has been required due to a time delays attributed to the movement of equipment.
CPV: Research laboratory services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The All Wales Medical Genomics Service (AWMGS) is an NHS specialist health service…
The All Wales Medical Genomics Service (AWMGS) is an NHS specialist health service hosted at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. The AWMGS delivers its services across Wales supporting patients with genetic conditions and those at risk of developing symptoms of a genetic condition, and in addition delivering genomic tests. As part of the Welsh Government’s Genomics Delivery Plan for Wales’s, AWMGS will be relocating from UHW to its new facility at CIGC.
All Wales Genomic Laboratory currently provide hundreds of diagnostic tests, averaging a sample throughput of over 3,100 a month. Many of these tests are urgent patient critical diagnosis and treatments, with short turnaround times and as such, a provision must be supplied.
The initial plan was to utilise laboratory space across NHS functions within the United Kingdom. However, due to late changes in capacity of these laboratories this is no longer feasible. Hence, the decision has been made to single award due to timescales preventing full tender and utilise Synlab Laboratories given they are familiar with AWMGS processes and able to provide the capacity and quick turnround required.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Nov 2024, 09:41 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Nov 2024, 09:41 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-038391- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Public Contract Regulations. Regulation 32 (C) "insofar as is strictly necessary where, for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with."
Due to the unforeseen circumstances of UK NHS Laboratories reducing capacity for send out testing. AWMGS are required to relocate to CIGC from October 2024. Therefore, it is of extreme urgency that Synlab are awarded the contract to provide additional emergency testing given the delay of transferring equipment appropriately.
Publisher note: NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=146370. (WA Ref:146370)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYNLAB Laboratory Services | £660,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 038391-2024-1 · SYNLAB Laboratory Services
- Signed
- 27 Sept 2024
- Value
- £660,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- SYNLABAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.