Needle and Syringe Provision (and waste collection)

Concepts

• health and social work
• torquay
• medical waste
• syringes
• medical needles
• needle exchange
• needles
• needle exchange providers.\r \r
• the wider needle exchange system
• the local authority-commissioned needle exchange providers

Location

Description

Needle and Syringe provision (also known as needle exchange) forms part of the wider needle exchange system in Devon and Torbay.\r \r Devon County and Torbay Council's wish to commission a Supplier to deliver the highest quality services for the provision of needles, syringes and other injecting paraphernalia to the Local Authority-commissioned needle exchange providers in Devon and Torbay, (predominantly pharmacies, but also include specialist treatment services, local homeless hostels and custody suites).\r \r The Authority also requires the provider to deliver (or sub-commission) the collection and safe disposal of used injecting equipment from needle exchange providers.\r \r Please refer to the tender documents for full details of the requirements.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 90524000 - Medical waste services
• 33141123 - Sharps containers
• 33141310 - Syringes
• 33141320 - Medical needles

Other Information

In order to provide unrestricted, full, direct and free of charge access to the Tender Documents the Authority is providing the Documents in PDF format (or 'READ ONLY' format) in the 'Opportunities' Area of the ProContract e-Tendering portal, at www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk In order to access amendable versions of the Documents and to submit a response, Applicants must be registered as Suppliers on ProContract. Applicants should then register an interest in the opportunity and download the Documents for completion and submission.