Enteral Nutrition - Covid Supply Resilience

Tender description

Supply of enteral nutrition feeds and consumables required to support patient life in intensive and critical care including provision of stock management, storage and rotation services to ensure supplier has sufficient supplies in stock for NHS customers to buy through pre-existing framework agreements. Lot 1: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has (on behalf of NHS bodies in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) awarded this contract for the supply of enteral nutrition feeds and consumables required to support patient life in intensive and critical care. The contract includes provision of stock management, storage and rotation services to safeguard supply of these essential life-saving products by ensuring the supplier has sufficient supplies in stock for NHS customers to buy through pre-existing framework agreements.<br/><br/>Under the contract, the supplier will supply and provide stock management services in relation to the following products: <br/>• enteral water:<br/>• high protein enteral tube feed; and <br/>• enteral pumps compatible with the above products. <br/><br/>The maximum value of this contract is estimated to be £ 2,141,000 (excluding VAT). The estimated value is based on clinically identified volumes and validated assumptions.<br/><br/>The contract award notice is being published retrospectively, having been inadvertently not published previously due to an IT systems error. DHSC is publishing the notice now to correct that error.