National Fit Testing Service for England

To help support the NHS, DHSC put in place a National Fit Testing Team for England to support NHS Trusts access fit testing, so their staff can be fit tested to the wide range of masks now available. The team currently consists of a part time Project Director, 5 Area Managers, 3 Admin Assistants to manage contacts with the Trusts and up to 175 Fit Testers.

The initial contract was put in place at the height of the pandemic under regulation 32 and ran until 30th September 2021. The contract was then reprocured under open tender, novated from DHSC to The Authority (Supply Chain Coordination Limited) 31/03/2022 and subsequently was extended to 31/03/2023.

SCCL now wishes to put in place a contract for a National Fit Testing Service to run from 1st April 2023 onwards. The Authority is running this open 30-day procurement process to select a vendor to provide this.

The contract period is expected to be from 1st April 2023-31 December 2023 with a possible extension of up to 6 months. The successful organisation will therefore be required to have mobilised their solution by 1st April 2023. The option to extend for up to a further 6 months will be in multiples of 3-month increments.

Additional information:

Accessing the tender:

This procurement exercise will be conducted on the NHS Supply Chain eProcurement portal at https://nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com/ Applicants wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest against ITT_742 and provide additional procurement-specific information (if required) through the NHS Supply Chain eProcurement portal as follows:

Registration:

1. use URL https://nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com/ to access the NHS Supply Chain

Procurement portal;

• 2)if not yet registered:
• click on the 'Register Here' link to access the registration page,
• complete the registration pages.

Portal access:

If registration has been completed:

• login with URL https://nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com/
• Applicants should download the Supplier User Guide located within the eProcurement portal.
• Select "My ITT's",
• Select the three "..." to the top right hand side of the screen.
• Select "Help for Suppliers". This will then open a new screen with a library of guidance document and a video which will guide you through how to submit a compliant bid.

Support:

Should Applicants require any system support or help to locate and submit a bid for the opportunity they

should contact the Jaggaer Helpdesk on;

Tel: 0800 069 8630

Email: help_uk@jaggaer.com

ITT references relevant to this procurement:

ITT_742 - National Fit Testing Service For England