Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) are seeking to procure, via the Restricted Procurement procedure, with services with acute hospital pathology experience, to play a key role in the provision of an end to end pathology service, including but not limited to the provision of:

— The provision of Clinical Blood Sciences including Blood Transfusion, Microbiology, Virology, Cytology and Immunology;

— The provision of acute hospital pathology services to the Trust, including all required analysers, equipment, reagents and consumables;

— The planning, transition, implementation, operation and management arrangements, all designed to ensure that the potential provider establishes and provides appropriate high quality pathology services;

— The provision of an on-site pathology service for an agreed repertoire of tests;

— The provision of off-site and referral tests from their host laboratory;

— The provision and oversight of Point of Care Testing (PoCT) on the RNOH site;

— The integration/ interface for electronic requesting and reporting through the Hospitals Anglia ICE system.

A key aspect of the procurement will be to agree on the most advantageous commercial arrangements within which the Trust and the PP will deliver the required services.

It is envisaged that the contract will be awarded in October 2016. The contract duration will be for a core 5 years for acute pathology services, with the option for the Trust to extend the contract for a further 2 years, and potentially longer depending on performance, in yearly periods.

This notice is supported by full Pre-Qualification Questionnaire documentation and a Specification which sets out in more detail the requirements of the Trust. This documentation is available via https://www.lppsourcing.org