Protective and safety clothing

Tender description

The supplier will provide a supply of PPE (personal protective equipment) as detailed below. This supply will enable protection against Covid-19 virus infection for key workers in HCC adults health and care. These workers will undertake essential and necessary service provision activity in enabling the County’s mobilisation of its emergency plans in response to the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic. Such activity will be of direct benefit to all citizens of the County and will contribute to the ongoing maintenance of civil society and effective delivery of the County’s Covid-19 emergency response. It is essential that key workers have the required PPE (personal protective equipment) in order to enable HCC adults health and care to meet their obligations at this time. With reference to the identified need for a supply of essential protective equipment: • the request is in order to secure on as immediate a basis as possible the product/service identified in this document in response to the unforeseen event of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic; • the supply market has faced unprecedented levels of acute demand for the product/service identified in this document, making it challenging to secure supplies and to do so in the quantities required and at appropriate prices. This order represents acceptable value for money in the light of current market conditions for the product/service identified in this document and secures critical strategic supply of essential products/services in the wake of nationwide demand pressures.