# 21080 CCC and PCC Urgent and Surge Community Swabbing Service for Covid-19

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council
- Contract winner: GPDQ
- Award value: £249,000
- Tender value: £249,000
- Award date: 12 August 2021
- Published: 12 August 2021
- Contract start: 30 October 2021
- Contract end: 31 December 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c1cf0256-c00a-4145-85db-f0c0309e77a4-460249
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-5aad11b2-f39f-4a43-a602-c1f4c009b6b2

## Description

Background National Approach to Test and Trace • The Government launched the NHS Test and Trace Service on 28th May 2020\. This national service is designed to control the virus and enable people to live a safer and more normal life\. The overarching guiding principles being Test; Trace; Contain; Enable\. • The NHS Test and Trace Service will work as a proposed 3 tier system; Tier 1 is of relevance for the local testing system • Tier 1 will be a regionalised network, including sub-regional and localised delivery providing contact tracing, consequence management and support in relation to complex settings, cohorts and individuals / households\. • Local planning and response will be the key to allowing the national service to work effectively at large scale\. • Local outbreak control plans centring on 7 key themes will be developed; and key theme 3 is identified as 'local testing capacity' • The local testing service will need to ensure a swift response that is accessible to the local population \(defining how to prioritise and manage deployment\) • A key consideration will be the ability of the local testing system to be able to respond swiftly once a complex cluster or setting has been identified through the national NHS Test and Trace initiative or through any other national or local stakeholders; e\.g\. East of England PHE Centre Aims and Objectives • The objective is to ensure that swift and effective local provision of community swabbing is always available to support the multiagency SARS-CoV-2 outbreak response in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough\. • The aim will be to build on existing commissioned services \(eg: School Nursing, District Nursing\) in the creation of the systems and extra capacity required to achieve the objective above\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c1cf0256-c00a-4145-85db-f0c0309e77a4-460249)