Laboratory services

Tender description

NHS Lothian seeks laboratory solutions delivered on a managed services basis for diagnostic and laboratory services at various sites across NHS Lothian, NHS Borders and NHS Fife. The scope of the contract is an integrated Blood Science laboratory managed Services contract (“MSC”) providing service management to meet all regulatory requirements, integrated IT firmware, major analysers, reagents and consumables to deliver the majority of the test repertoire for blood science (biochemistry, haematology (including haemostasis), Blood Transfusion and Virology Serology Services) (the “Core Services”) together with the option of additional services relating to Blood Science, Cellular Pathology and Microbiology. NHS Lothian seeks the provision of integrated Blood Science laboratory managed services to deliver the Core Services for laboratories located at the following sites: 1) NHS Borders, Borders General Hospital, Melrose; 2) NHS Fife, Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy; 3) NHS Lothian, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE), Edinburgh; 4) NHS Lothian, St John’s Hospital, Livingston; 5) NHS Lothian, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. The implementation of the core services across the above sites will take place on a phased implementation basis, all as further detailed in the procurement documents. Although the scope of the MSC includes delivery of managed services across multiple health board sites, economic operators should note that NHS Lothian will be the sole contracting party with the successful economic operator. The scope of the MSC will include the provision of optional laboratory testing services relating to blood science, cellular pathology and microbiology services across some or all of the sites. The procurement documents will detail the basis on which these optional services may be instructed by NHS Lothian. The successful economic operator will be responsible for the provision, implementation, calibration, commissioning and maintenance of all equipment necessary to deliver the MSC and for provision of all consumables used in connection therewith. It is intended an award will be made to one successful economic operator who will assume full responsibility for provision of all the managed services to NHS Lothian across all the sites. The successful economic operator shall be solely responsible for effecting any subcontracting or collaborative arrangements required with other suppliers to allow the successful economic operator to meet this commitment. Requirements of the managed service solution and contract will include, but will not be limited to: — to employ pre and post automated processes and common analytical platforms to maximise patient sample processing uptime, — capacity to deliver the test repertoire included in the specification, meet the clinical turnaround time and methodology requirement, — to provide integrated management of the clinical service for core Blood Science work via common sample input and single station result validation station, and — to provide integrated middleware (data manager) that complies with the Boards eHealth Security regulations and facilitates single system working (common SOP’s, book anywhere — do anywhere, ability to monitor IQC across all sites and disciplines, ability to monitor analyser functionality across all sites and disciplines, control all core Blood Science analysers) and supports cross-site contingency protocols.