--- title: "New Radiopharmaceutical Production Unit" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03d070" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03d070" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03d070.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03d070.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST" published: "2023-07-03" --- # New Radiopharmaceutical Production Unit Buyer: GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03d070 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03d070) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03d070.json) ## Summary 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. ## Notice 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: '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. ' 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. 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. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018843-2023 | | 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 | | All stages | Planning, Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 3 Jul 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 1 Nov 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £50,000,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South East London | | Postcode | SE1 9RT | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East | | ITL 3 | TLI44 Lewisham and Southwark | | Local authority | Southwark | | Electoral ward | London Bridge & West Bermondsey | | Westminster constituency | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | | Delivery location | TLI London | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 09 - Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 09343000 - Radioactive materials - 85149000 - Pharmacy services ## Release History - 3 Jul 2023 at 13:04 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018843-2023 - 31 May 2023 at 08:59 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015335-2023 ## Notice URLs - https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome - https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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