Storage and warehousing services

Tender description

Third Party Logistic storage and management for Covid-19 medicines and distribution of these medicines from storage facilities to hospitals and associated defined locations in England and the Channel Islands. The Department of Health and Social care intends to run a procurement exercise to award a service contract or contracts to a small number of national wholesalers, operating as Third Party Logistics (3PL) providers, to distribute a range of products (products to be detailed in the procurement documents) to hospitals and associated defined locations across England. The service may or may not be required as this is part of a contingency plan that will only be activated when certain conditions are met. If the service is required, the requirement will be for storage and then delivery of any type and volume of product, within between 24 hours to 7 days, to a variety of destinations across England. DHSC anticipates awarding the contract to 2-3 suppliers provided national coverage with a sufficient number of distribution points can be met but dependent upon need. Suppliers must have a geographical spread of depots to satisfy demand up to twice per day to the hospitals and associated defined locations in England and the Channel Islands when required to do so. DHSC’s preferred option is to award the contract to two suppliers but a third supplier may be contracted with, should comprehensive national coverage and distribution points not be met sufficiently with two suppliers.