# Disinfectant Devices

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [NHS BLOOD & TRANSPLANT](/buyers/nhs-blood-and-transplant/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Insight Health Limited
- Award value: £5,220,000
- Award date: 12 October 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 17 October 2016
- Contract end: 16 October 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: b60b3528-02f9-4f2c-8d42-6e0bf8d28b85-103080
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-e8a385d7-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

It is a requirement of the ‘Guidelines for the Blood Transfusion Services in the UK’, that there is a standardised and validated procedure for the preparation of the venepuncture site in operation; this to ensure surgical cleanliness and provide maximum possible assurance of a sterile product in order to reduce the risk of a transfusion transmitted infection\. Best practice in skin disinfection was defined in Evidence Based Practice in Infection Control Guidelines Version 2 \(EPIC2\) commissioned by the United Kingdom \(UK\) Department of Health \(DoH\) which recommended that a solution of chlorhexidine and alcohol should be used\. The only product range - in individual applicator form and containing the required 2% chlorhexidine gluconate in 70% isopropyl alcohol formulation - currently licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency \(MHRA\) is ChloraPrep®, distributed by Insight Health Limited\. For this procurement process: - the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a call for competition will be followed, on the basis that the disinfectant devices can only be supplied by Insight Health Limited, because competition is absent for technical reasons\. - NHS Blood and Transplant is acting in capacity of the central purchasing body \(i\.e\. the contracting entity\), where it will award a contract for the supply of disinfectant devices \(of various sizes\) intended for one or more Participating Authorities; although for the avoidance of doubt NHS Blood and Transplant will not place purchase orders on behalf of other Participating Authorities\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b60b3528-02f9-4f2c-8d42-6e0bf8d28b85-103080)