The provision of Fulfillment and Distribution of Antigen Tests Nationwide

Tender description

In summary, the Services comprise: The HSE wishes to appoint a suitably experienced, competent and capable service provider to provide an end to end Service Support Process including storage and an order fulfillment and distribution service for Antigen Test Kits (ATK) to individuals for home testing - symptomatic refferals and close contacts, and for distribution to bulk delivery settings (for example, Acute Hospitals, CHO locations, Residential care facilities, Schools, Childcare facilities, Government departments. This is a non exhaustive list of locations. The proposed service pathway is for the HSE to send details of any request for antigen tests to be sent to the distribution partner, who would fulfil and distribute the order as instructed Lot 1: Lot 1 The Lot 1 appointed supplier should have the capacity to respond to demand of between 35,000 - 40,000 requests on a steady state daily basis (up to 280K requests per week), and surge capacity of 70,000-80,000 daily requests for a period of 7 days (up to 560K requests). Lot 2: Lot 2 Lot 2: Services will be contracted from Lot 2 upon the event of the Lot 1 service provider reaching their specified capacity. The Lot 2 appointed supplier should have the capacity to respond to demand of 80,000 – 100,000 kits on a steady state weekly basis, and surge capacity of up to 180,000 kits per week for 2 consecutive weeks