Conveyor equipment

Tender description

Dept. for Health and Social Care with associated Central Government Bodies is conducting market research to inform and engage with the market. Covid-19 test samples are unpacked singly in a manual bench operation at several laboratory sites. The department wishes to gather information around equipment, systems or services that will improve the productivity of this operation. This request for information (RFI) seeks to identify services, handling equipment and systems in the market, to improve productivity and which can be implemented rapidly. The RFI is a search for solutions across a range of handling systems such as bag openers, box openers, conveyors, vision systems (QC and bar code capture), RFID readers, custom handling equipment, pick and place machines, robots and associated control systems. We wish to receive proposals for longer term solutions and also to understand if there are solutions within the market that are capable of rapid implementation by the end of December 2020. This is to inform and engage with the market ahead of a potential OJEU process.