Needle Exchange Contract 2016 -2019

Reading Borough Council (RBC) is commissioning a service for the provision of needle exchange packs and related paraphernalia to their community pharmacists and specialist drug agencies in the Reading borough area. This Invitation to Tender (ITT) has been prepared by RBC’s Public Health - Drug and Alcohol Team (DAAT) in order to establish a contract with a sole supplier to provide appropriate needle exchange packs and associated items to the Council.

RBC is committed to providing a comprehensive range of injecting equipment to their service users and to ensuring that this equipment is available from a range of locations throughout the Borough. The Council also aims to consult service users in how this provision can best suit their needs and expectation and hope to achieve a high return rate of used equipment.

Currently this service is being provided by an external provider under interim contract arrangements whilst the tendering exercise is being conducted. Additional information: The procurement documents are available to interested parties via the Council’s e-tendering system (In-Tend) at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/readingbc (Project Reference No. RBC 00000011 refers). For this particular project contractors will need to be registered on the Council’s e-tendering system (In-Tend) using the following Proclass category codes: 311200 - Healthcare - Drugs 151510 - Healthcare – Public Health Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/readingbc/aspx/