SYB Pathology MSC

Tender description

This Contract Notice advertises a contract opportunity for the provision of a Pathology Managed Service Contract to the following five NHS Trusts working in partnership to deliver the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Pathology Service (SYB Pathology Service): (1) Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (part of BRILS); (2) Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; (3) The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust; (4) Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and (5) Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STHFT) (the “MSC”). During the term of the MSC, it is anticipated that Chesterfied Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (“Chesterfield) may become an associate member of the SYB Pathology Partnership in relation to Histopathology and therefore the MSC may be varied to enable Chesterfield to get the benefit of the SYB Pathology Service. On 1st April 2024 a single pathology service was established governed and managed by STHFT as the Host Organisation on behalf of the partnership. Over the coming years SYB Pathology will transition to the Target Operating Model which will deliver significant quality and efficiency benefits longer term. The establishment of the MSC will support transition to the target operating model and deliver significant quality and efficiency benefits for patients, clinicians, staff and wider stakeholders which includes the use of innovative and cutting-edge technologies. The MSC will cover all current and future workloads during its term and must meet all regulatory requirements and provide all integrated IT firmware, analysers, equipment, test kits, assays, reagents, chemicals, specific and general lab consumables and associated products and services to deliver the entire pathology and related hosted services across all sites and departments which form part of the SYB Pathology Service. Any resulting contract from this procurement process will be entered into by STHFT on behalf of the five organisations aforementioned and references to the “Authority” in this Contract Notice should be read as STHFT for and on behalf of the SYB Pathology partnership.