Storage and warehousing services

Tender description

The proposed requirement is to provide chilled, warehousing, distribution and management services for the supply of Vaccines and Other Medicines, covering a multi-tiered response level. Including scheduled routine deliveries and urgent same-day service levels. This PIN covers potential requirements for Vaccines and Other Medicines, including fulfilment services for a Pandemic Specific Vaccine, to be mobilised during an Influenza Pandemic. The requirements are expected to store national stock holdings of circa 5 000 — 7 000 pallets and provide a programme of regular deliveries for routine vaccinations. In addition with flexibility to support scheduled, urgent next day, same-day deliveries and rapid deployment for specific products, within 5 hours in response to an emergency situation. Regular schedule programme of routine vacinnations approximately 3000 deliveries per week covering 10 000 locations in England, covering a range of health care organisations, including NHS trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts, General Practitioners social care providers and pharmacies. In addition there are some consolidated delivery operations within the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Rapid Deployment covers UK; majority of products will require delivery to acute healthcare trusts, with a small number of products potentially requiring deployment to any post code location in the UK in response to a biological incident. All services to be provided in a chill-chain environment of +2°C to +8°C with regulatory compliance to the 2012 Human Medicines Regulations and holding a Wholesale Dealers License (WDL) which covers the storage and distribution of refrigerated medicines.