How to win: Pathology Managed Service – Preliminary Market Engagement

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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (“the Authority”) is undertaking preliminary market engagement ahead of a competitive procurement for a Pathology Managed Service. The intended contract will provide, as a managed service, the laboratory equipment (analytical platforms, automation, point-of-care devices and associated instrumentation), reagents, consumables, maintenance, software/middleware, training and lifecycle replacement required to deliver the Authority’s pathology service. The service is expected to be structured in two phases: Phase 1 covering the Authority’s existing laboratories at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital, and Phase 2 following consolidation into a new-build pathology hub. The Authority’s working direction is a new-build hub with the location not yet determined; two options remain under consideration, each with implications for the service model that suppliers should allow for: A hub on the Gloucester (hospital) site would require continued urgent haematology and clinical chemistry provision at Cheltenham General. An off-site hub would require acute (hot lab) provision and resilience at both Gloucestershire Royal and

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