Official UK procurement notice
Procurement for neutralising antibodies
Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDHSC invites suppliers to provide information on neutralising antibodies and binding site, clinical trials on efficacy, safety for preventing or treating COVID-19 infection, dose&frequency, formats/routes for administering to patients, monitoring adverse affects, efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 variants, supply availability for 2021-2022 and future years and plans for regulatory approval in the UK, if not yet approved.
CPV: Pharmaceutical products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Department is interested in engaging with the emerging market prior to the…Planned
The Department is interested in engaging with the emerging market prior to the publication of a contract notice to find innovative neutralising antibody COVID-19 therapies that could inform the specification of requirements, conditions of contract and commercial model. Further details of how suppliers may engage with the Department are included in section VI.3) (additional information) at the end of this notice. Additional information: Interested parties should submit questions via Atamis. Department welcomes discussions with interested parties on areas provision of a value for money solution for the UK tax payer;creating mechanisms for money solution for the UK tax payer; creating mechanisms (including but not limited to agreements) to secure long-term, guaranteed supply contracts with ‘step-in’ rights in future pandemics
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 Sept 2021, 15:20 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2021, 15:20 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-023588- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02e397Find a Tender
Publisher note: This Prior Information Notice has been issued to alert the market for the possible procurement of neutralising antibodies.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://health.atamis.co.uk ↗
- Submission deadline
- —
Timeline
22 Sept 2021 → 22 Sept 2021 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected22 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST
- Notice published22 Sept 2021, 15:20 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.