The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a Specialist Oncology Centre seeking to appoint a supplier who will be able to deliver haematology laboratory coagulation service.

The service is provided to inpatients, outpatients and day cases. We do not provide GP or Anticoagulation Clinic services. The Trust is also heavily involved in trial work in liaison with the Institute for Cancer Research.

There is currently a full haematology service at both sites site operating 24 hour 7 day cover.

The blood sciences department currently holds full UKAS accreditation under ISO 15189 and is enrolled in all relevant UK EQA schemes for tests conducted within its routine laboratories

The Trust is asking service providers to deliver a contract which will:

— install and maintain automated analytical system(s) for the processing of samples for coagulation tests.

— provide the necessary IT connectivity to integrate the equipment into the Laboratory Information Management System (Technidata Synergy) via Instrument Manager middleware and manage the data produced by the analysers.

— provide other services such as practical support for initial verification and implementation, training, contract management support, reagents and other consumables supply, an optional inventory management solution, and value added items such as marketing and service improvement.

— allow for new services which may come online during the course of the contract.

— the methodologies on offer at both sites must be the same. The Chelsea site in particular is severely restricted for space and so solutions that can provide the required throughput with the minimum of footprint are sought.