Storage services

Tender description

National Procurement, a division of NHS National Services Scotland, is the Centre of Expertise for Health Procurement established in 2005. We are home to the biggest public sector logistics operation in Scotland. From our Lanarkshire based National Distribution Centre, over 80 000 items are delivered every week to hospital wards, departments and community centres with a 98 % on time, first time, in full supply record. We have over 27 000 customers and we make over 1 000 trips a month to deliver for them. The distribution centre currently runs near capacity and to meet on-going customer demands we require a third-party logistics to support day-to-day operations. It is envisaged that the third-party logistics supplier would hold around 5 000 pallets of stock and be responsible for picking 10 000 product lines per week. As well as supporting day to day requirements we are also required to store around 3 000 pallets of stock which can be called upon in case of a pandemic situation. — storage of overflow items from NDC circa 5 000 pallets, including in bad weather, — receiving containers and Euro pallets for de-stuffing and re-palletising into NDC-compatible pallets for transport by others, — pick, pack and despatch as required, including e.g. advanced pick for Christmas and new builds, — provide a restricted access area for the storage of high value equipment, — provide areas for product recall prior to their transportation to the supplier at very short notice to remove a contaminated product from the NDC. — storage of flu pandemic consumables (non-drugs) in 2 different locations — circa 3 000 pallets in total, — ensuring the items stored are in-date, — disposal of items that are no longer in-date, — items must be ready for transport 4 hours after communication for readiness.