# Provision of Digital Autopsy Services - AWARD

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council](/buyers/sandwell-metropolitan-borough-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Advanced Visualisation Technologies Ltd T/A Digital Autopsy UK
- Award value: £2,065,000
- Tender value: £1,250,000
- Award date: 10 October 2023
- Published: 10 October 2023
- Contract start: 10 October 2023
- Contract end: 30 September 2028
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 3cc31a57-df8b-4b40-941d-9143f732f6d2-687511
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-e1c7a793-731c-488e-adbb-4616d436778d

## Description

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council are the relevant authority for the Black Country Coroners Service\. The Black Country Jurisdiction covers Sandwell, Walsall, Dudley and Wolverhampton and this contract will provide digital autopsy\(CT scanning\) services for all four areas and will be offered in one lot as we seek a single provider\. Digital Autopsy/CT Scanning is used as first line intervention as an alternative to traditional post-mortem examinations within the Black Country\. Patients are scanned via a CT Scanner and images from the scan are then used by specially trained radiologists and coroners' pathologists to assist in ascertaining a cause of death\. It is anticipated that a cause of death can be ascertained in approximately 75% of cases where patients have been scanned\. This avoids the need to use the more traditional invasive approach to post mortem in these cases\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/3cc31a57-df8b-4b40-941d-9143f732f6d2-687511)