Procurement

Surge Laboratory Capacity in Response to Future Health Emergencies

  • Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-050d89

Description

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is inviting suppliers to participate in this pre-market engagement exercise to explore options for surge laboratory capacity in response to future health emergencies. This engagement aims to share UKHSA's current thinking, gather feedback from the market regarding the proposed specification, contract and tender evaluation methodology to inform the final approvals for the procurement strategy.

UKHSA is considering options for Surge Laboratory Capacity to ensure rapid response during public health emergencies, focusing on rapidly scaling up PCR testing capabilities for Pathogen X. Please note, the indicative contract value below is for a cold state running of the contract and a hot state contract value will be many multiples of this.

This engagement is exploratory and does not represent a commitment to procure at this stage.

Notices

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice

Notice identifier
2026/S 000-001779
Published
9 January 2026, 11:41am

UK1: Pipeline notice

Notice identifier
2025/S 000-026450
Published
23 May 2025, 2:11pm

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice

Notice identifier
2025/S 000-019260
Published
7 May 2025, 8:26am