Official UK procurement notice
Procurement of Kitting Automation Equipment
Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Department of Health & Social Care has set up the Test & Trace Programme to address the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of the Mass Testing programme, the Test & Trace Programme produces PCR and LAMP test kits. Currently, these diagnostic test kits are produced in a largely manual fashion. The Test & Trace programme is seeking to establish a fully automated capability to produce diagnostic test-kits at large scale.
CPV: Electromechanical equipment · Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts · Miscellaneous special-purpose machinery
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The Department of Health & Social Care has set up the Test & Trace Programme to…RenewalPublished value£30,000,000
The Department of Health & Social Care has set up the Test & Trace Programme to address the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of the Test and Trace programme is:
- Saving Lives (rapid testing for anyone with symptoms)
- Protecting the vulnerable (screening of selected cohorts)
- Containment (Integral part of NHS Test and Trace)
- Getting UK back to work (testing available for all symptomatic citizens)
- Understanding prevalence (survey delivery) As part of the Mass Testing programme, the Test & Trace Programme produces PCR and LAMP test kits. Currently, these diagnostic test kits are produced in a largely manual fashion. The Test & Trace programme is seeking to establish a fully automated capability to produce diagnostic test-kits at large scale, in order to:
- Establish a lasting legacy to better prepare the UK for future pandemic events when they occur, and to repurpose the testing system for non-pandemic tests such as genetic sequencing, cancer diagnostics, STDs and other respiratory diseases;
- Improve quality of test kit production;
- Achieve a Maximum Capacity of 500,000 tests / day, of the four variants of Covid-19 test kits specified in the System Requirements Documents (SRD)to meet predicted test demand;
- Increase responsiveness to fluctuating demand, with the ability to quickly increase or decrease volumes in line with rapidly changing demand for Covid tests;
- Produce test kits for the four PCR test kits variants that make 99% of the demand, and to be able to accommodate planned / possible future kit without major redesign;
- Reduce the cost of producing test kits for the tax payer;We are seeking a supplier to design, deliver, install and commission this Automated Kitting Equipment, and to provide DHSC operator training and ongoing equipment support. DHSC are now advising the market of our intention to procure these goods. This Procurement will establish a single Contract for the purchase of Kitting Automation Equipment. Additional information: ProcessSuppliers instructions: the opportunity will be available on the DHSC Atamis eTendering System and will be conducted using the competitive dialogue procedure. You must be registered on the Atamis e-Sourcing Suite (“Atamis”) via health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗ in order to take part in this Procurement.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Competitive dialogue
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 9 Sept 2021, 11:45 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Sept 2021, 11:45 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-022374- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ded5Find a Tender
Publisher note: ProcessSuppliers instructions: the opportunity will be available on the DHSC Atamis eTendering System and will be conducted using the competitive dialogue procedure. You must be registered on the Atamis e-Sourcing Suite (“Atamis”) via https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome in order to take part in this Procurement. If you are not already registered you can do so using the same link. Select ‘Find Opportunities’ and then select the ‘Procurement of Kitting Automation Equipment’ opportunity, reference C43352. Once you have selected the Opportunity, press the ‘Register Interest’ button to register your interest. Once the tender pack is published you can review documents, send clarification messages, submit the response, or decline to respond, if you decide not to participate in the opportunityIf you have any issues with using Atamis, or require any assistance, please contact the Atamis helpdesk prior to the Tender Submission Deadline at support-health@atamis.co.uk or 0800 9956035. We are planning to issue the tender pack on Wednesday 25th June 2021, an automatic message will be sent notifying you as long as you have expressed your interest against this opportunity. For further assistance please consult the online help, or the eTendering help desk.Bidders will be invited to submit both an SQ and an ITT response in parallel. Responses from Bidders who meet the criteria of the SQ will be evaluated against the criteria that will be published in the tender pack. The three Bidders with the highest evaluation sores will then be invited to participate in Competitive Dialogue, alongside a parallel site visit assessment. Following completion of Competitive Dialogue and site visit assessments, down selected Bidders may submit revised bids for final evaluation which will be evaluated against the final evaluation criteria published in the tender pack. Full details of the evaluation process and assessment will be published in the tender pack.We reserve the right to: (i) to cancel this procurement at any stage; (ii) to not award any contract as a result of the procurement; (iii) make any changes to the timetable, structure or content of the competition. Bidders’ costs of responding to this opportunity shall be at their own expense,Please note that all future correspondence for the event will be our e-Procurement System.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://health.atamis.co.uk ↗
- Submission deadline
- 11 Oct 2021, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
Timeline
9 Sept 2021 → 11 Oct 2021 · 3 dates- Invitations to tender expected9 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST
- Notice published9 Sept 2021, 11:45 BST
- Submission deadline11 Oct 2021, 15:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria