Radioactive materials

Tender description

The Supply of Iodine- 125 Prostate Brachytherapy seeds with associated planning and calibration equipment and consumables. The Trust currently uses approx. 9 000 seeds annually with a range of activities from 0.3 mCi to 0.6 mCi. The Trust require a Variseed v9.0 planning system or an equivalent seed planning system with a minimum of 2 licensed terminals (1 of which should be laptop configuration) plus associated gold support contract. In addition, needles must be delivered preloaded with custom loaded seed arrangements according to each patient pre plan. Seeds within the needle must be connected together at 10mm intervals and at custom intervals (multiples of 5mm) as dictated by the patient pre plan, so that the seeds remain connected together within the prostate to avoid seed migration. The seeds in question may be linked or stranded together into the required configuration. The Trust requires 5 additional seeds for assay from each certified batch without requiring opening of sterile packaging of the clinical seeds. A PTW SourceCheck ionisation chamber plus the associated seed holder for assay of the seeds will also be required as part of the contract.