Tender

New Radiopharmaceutical Production Unit

GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

TenderUpdate

03 Jul 2023 at 13:04

Planning

31 May 2023 at 08:59

Summary of the contracting process

The Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is inviting industry partners for the provision of Radiopharmacy (RP) services to develop a new Radiopharmaceutical Production Unit. This tender aims to ensure patient access to RP diagnostics and therapeutics, fostering clinical research in nuclear medicine. Key dates include PIN responses due by Thurs 6th July 2023, with the future notice date set for 1st November 2023. The procurement is in the planning stage.

This opportunity presents a chance for industry partners in the pharmacy services sector to collaborate with the NHS Trust. Businesses well-suited to compete are those with expertise in radioactive materials, healthcare logistics, and aseptic manufacturing. The tender process will span into 2024 and offers potential for significant business growth and collaboration in the healthcare industry.

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Notice Title

New Radiopharmaceutical Production Unit

Notice Description

The Authority, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is seeking expressions of interest from strategic and operational industry partners for the provision of Radiopharmacy (RP) services which ensure the realisation of the service's ambition: <br/><br/>'To develop a new, purpose-built, GMP compliant Radiopharmaceutical Production Unit for the aseptic manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals. The unit is to realise the productivity and commercial potential of the Radiopharmacy department and become an exemplar NHS Nuclear Medicine Unit providing training and education opportunities to the next generation of Radiopharmacists. '<br/><br/>The Unit will ensure equity of patient access to the increasing pipeline of RP diagnostics and therapeutics over the next 15-20 years and deliver the most innovative clinical research at its Investigational Medicinal Products (IMP) and Specials licensed facilities. <br/><br/>Radiopharmacy sits in the Integrated and Specialist Medicine (ISM) directorate at GSTT, within CLIMP (Clinical Imaging and Medical Physics), and is part of the Nuclear Medicine Department based in the Borough Wing at Guy's Hospital. The unit manufactures tracers used in diagnostics scans, which are used to detect a wide range of conditions (including injuries; infections; tumours; heart disease; thyroid abnormalities; and kidney conditions) and also guide some cancer procedures.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Aim of this PIN is to notify the Radio Pharmacy manufacturing market of our intention to commission a Managed Service Agreement for a new aseptic manufacturing unit. Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation trust's generic principals for MSAs

1. The Trust gives no guarantee around patient activity / volumes.

2.The providers realise returns on any capital investment through service revenues

3. The Provider takes the risk of under payment

4. The Trust takes risk of over payment

5. The trust is to maintain clinician choice where possible i.e. For consumables, equipment, etc that is supplied by the Managed Service Provider.

This is a vital stage of our scoping as industry have the opportunity to influence shape the business model of a new Radio Pharmacy manufacturing unit. Significant capital investment will need to be provided by industry to build a new, future proof unit, equipment and consumables. Full or part service management will also include logistics and distribution and the authority will favour those industry partners that recognise the value of Research, clinical studies, education and training. At time of writing there are no available locations at either Guys or St Thomas for a new manufacturing unit and so a location will need to be identified. There is no capital available from GSTT.

To get involved in this PIN (IMPORTANT): Please undertake the following steps:

1. Contact Patric Lemagnen (contact details in this notice), and state you are a supplier who is wanting to get involved in this pre-market engagement exercise.

2. Please provide your company details, along with a contact person and email address (this will be the email address which is then added to Atamis).

3. Once you have access to the PIN document on Atamis (saved in the Documents section of the project you'll be added to), please complete the PIN Questionnaire (Section 2; pages 5-6 of the document) and upload your response as an attachment to a message on Atamis.

4. If we have any further questions, or decide to host a supplier engagement event off the back of the responses, we will reach out to you directly. Additional information: Once PIN responses have been received, consolidated and diffused across the senior stakeholders at Guys and St Thomas, an outline business case and the frame work for a specification will commence that will be take into account industry-responses. A formal competitive procurement process will commence later this year and into 2024.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-03d070
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018843-2023
Current Stage
Tender
All Stages
Planning, Tender

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Planning Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

09 - Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy

85 - Health and social work services


CPV Codes

09343000 - Radioactive materials

85149000 - Pharmacy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£50,000,000 £10M-£100M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
3 Jul 20232 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
1 Nov 2023Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planned
Lots Status
Planned
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Contact Name
Patric Lemagnen
Contact Email
patric.lemagnen@gstt.nhs.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SE1 9RT
Post Town
South East London
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI4 Inner London - East
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI44 Lewisham and Southwark
Delivery Location
TLI London

Local Authority
Southwark
Electoral Ward
London Bridge & West Bermondsey
Westminster Constituency
Bermondsey and Old Southwark

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