Services for slide digitisation - multi-modal

Tender description

Genomics England are looking for a provider to support in digitising all the histopathology slides from the participants of the 100,000 Genomes Project so they can be transferred to the multi-modal research environment. The multi-modal project provides an enriched data set for cancer research by adding of imaging data from pathology slides and radiology images (e.g., x-ray, CT and MRI) alongside whole genome data. The multi-modal project aims are: - Complete the scanning and digitisation of the remaining 200,000 histopathology slides for the 100,000 Genomes Project participants. - Make accessible to researchers a secure library of linked genomic, clinical and imaging cancer data accompanied with the tooling needed to accelerate the understanding of the morphological, genomic and clinical changes that occur in cancer. - Lead the research community to generate new insights from the data to support diagnostic, prognostic and precision medicine discovery. Lot 1: The requirements include the following: • To provide a high quality, clinical grade digital pathology service. • The successful supplier must be of reputable standard with known clinical and academic standing and engagement with the Royal Collage of Pathologists (as this is a national digitisation programme). • Ideally based within an NHS site to allow for receipt of identifiable information from participants and not require formal MTAs for movement of slides. • Supplier must demonstrate secure storage for identifiable glass slides. • Deployment team already established to perform similar process, at scale (expected volumes of 4000 slides per week). • Clear protocol for handling and anonymisation of participant information and slides. • Anonymise, scan and digitise 200,000 histopathology slides from solid cancer participants in the 100,000 Genomes Project over one year. • Digitisation of slides must be performed at x40 magnification on Leica GT450 scanner, in line with previous configurations and analysis. • Supplier will need to provide scanning of selected slides on a variety of scanners for variability. • Digital images need to be of DICOM compatible format. • Supplier will need to have logistics in place to digitise from CellNass directly. • Transfer these digitised slides to the Genomic England's multi-modal research environment over IBM Aspera. • Capability to receive and store histopathology slides. • Capability to conduct quality control protocols and scan all slides. • Capability to store and transfer image data. Additional information: If you have not already done so, you will need to register on our Bravo portal https://public.bravosolution.co.uk/genomicsengland/web/login.html Please register on the e-tendering portal (Bravo) on the link provided. Once registered, you can find the opportunity under project title Services for slide digitisation - multi-modal or the project reference "project_867" All correspondence should be sent via the portal.