NHS England Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Managed Service
Contract Value:
GBP 190M -
Notice Type:
Contract Notice
Published Date:
05 December 2024
Closing Date:
31 January 2025
Location(s):
UK UNITED KINGDOM
UKE YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER (UK UNITED KINGDOM)
Description:
Appointment of a Managed Service Provider to deliver Faecal Immunochemical Test home testing kits for the bowel cancer screening programme in England.
NHS England Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Managed Service. This tender is to appoint a Managed Service Provider to deliver the MSP contract for the continued provision of Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) home testing kits to those eligible for the bowel cancer screening programme throughout England. These tests allow those at risk of cancer, and requiring further tests, to be identified and provision is an essential component of the screening pathway. Further tests after FIT are typically screening specialist practitioner review and a screening colonoscopy. The MSP contract broadly covers; the sending of personalised FIT kits to eligible participants in England, management of the logistics to return kits to an NHS bowel cancer screening hub (n=5), the supply of analysers to all 5 hubs, and consumables to test the kits, provision of training for hub staff to analyse the kits, the systems to allow results to be transferred to the Bowel Cancer Screening System (BCSS) software.
This will be completed through an open route under PCR.