Expired contract

Reagent Rental POCT Combined Blood Glucose/Ketone Meters

Details

Supplier(s)
Nova Biomedical
Value
£300,000
Duration
2 years
Topic
Diagnostic devices
Published
29 February 2024

Tender description

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (the Authority) have procured a non-connected combined blood glucose and blood ketone POC testing system, for use in a community health care setting. The initial contract term is 24 months, with three optional 12 month extensions, to take the total potential contract length to 5 years, (2 + 1 + 1 + 1).This is to be via a reagent rental model, whereby the supplier supplies the required meters/hardware, implementation, training and any required IQC Material free of charge, with all costings accounted for within the costs of the reagents and consumables, i.e. Blood Glucose Test Strips and Blood Ketone Test Strips.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published29 February 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date2 May 2024
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date2 May 2026

About the buyer

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust delivers community health services across Kent and Medway, procuring as an NHS trust with its own commercial function. Tender opportunities are advertised on the Procontract portal, Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Contracts for health services can be awarded through the Provider Selection Regime as well as competitive tender. The Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025, now governs its procurements. Community services are delivered through a partnership the trust leads with HCRG Care Group and Medway Community Healthcare.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in software and information systems, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 33124100 · Diagnostic devices
  • 33696200 · Blood-testing reagents

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