# Extension to the Contract for Supply of Laboratory Services for provision of Testing related to COVID-19

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department of Health and Social Care](/buyers/department-of-health-and-social-care/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Systems Biology Laboratory
- Award value: £0
- Award date: 18 December 2020
- Published: 3 March 2021
- Contract start: 4 December 2020
- Contract end: 31 January 2021
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: fe99f98b-20b9-49a9-8e52-f0ce7f6ed633-417329
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-2a433020-0ea0-4d1a-be6c-0e324fbfeb6c

## Description

The provision of COVID-19 testing services to cover Surge requirements, along with relevant reporting and forecasting\. This forms part of the additional lab capacity that is being purchased on top of the already existing lighthouse labs\. These extensions for the contract are an urgent requirement to meet a critical need for additional Covid testing within Pillar 2 of Test and Trace and DHSC is relying on Regulation 32\(2\) \(c\)of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for the extension of the contract\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/fe99f98b-20b9-49a9-8e52-f0ce7f6ed633-417329)