COVID-19 Sample Collection Consumables RFI
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)Estimated Value
Not specified
Deadline
Not specified
Published
25 November 2020
Type
goods
Overview
In line with the Government's testing strategy, the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) is seeking to procure sample collection consumables for COVID-19 testing in order to scale up testing to meet forecast demand for winter. To begin with, the DHSC would like to build an understanding of suppliers in the market who can support this scale up - hence the issuance of this RFI.
Kindly click on the links below to access the relevant specification documents along with the RFI response excel. For the provision of responses to this RFI, please follow the "RFI Response Instructions" as highlighted in the "RFI Background & Context" sheet of the excel document.
Although the end date for this RFI is 30/09/2020, we are requesting responses to be submitted as soon as possible. Thank you for your interest in this RFI - we appreciate your support.
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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)Key Dates
Published
25 November 2020
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