COVID-19 tests for the European Court of Auditors

Description

The purpose of this invitation to tender is to enter into a framework service contract with a medical analysis laboratory in order to carry out COVID-19 tests (mainly of RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 type) for some of the staff at the European Court of Auditors in one of the Court's buildings in Luxembourg-Kirchberg. The technical clauses relating to the contract detailing the scope of the contract and the conditions for its performance are set out in part B of these specifications. The contractor must be a medical analysis laboratory which has the capacity to: a) provide one or more qualified nurses to take nasopharyngeal samples; b) carry out PCR test diagnostics in the laboratory on samples taken to determine whether a person has contracted the Sars-Cov-2 virus; c) communicate the results within the deadlines indicated above. The tests to be carried out are mainly the COVID-19 RT-PCRs (Reverse Transcriptase — polymerase chain reaction), only carried out on a nasopharyngeal sample taken with the appropriate swab. The Court reserves the right to order RT-PCR tests to detect COVID-19 mutations/variants/strains once this type of test is developed and available on the market. Exceptionally, the Court could order other types of tests from the contractor, these include: a) serological blood tests for COVID-19; b) rapid salivary or nasolabial/ pharyngeal antigen tests (patient self-sampling) – this does not relate to RATs carried out by a nurse; c) RT-PCR tests carried out on saliva samples (patient self-sampling); d) rapid RT-PCR tests (patient self-sampling or samples taken by the contractor's nurse) (‘Nasenbohrtest’). All tests must be authorised in Luxembourg by the Ministry of Health.