# Innovation - Samba COVID19 Testing equipment and consumables Innovation - Samba COVID19 Testing equipment and consumables

> 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: Diagnostics for the Real World Ltd
- Award value: £20,368,060
- Tender value: £20,368,060
- Award date: 12 May 2020
- Published: 13 January 2021
- Contract start: 13 May 2020
- Contract end: 5 February 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: c8407d8c-5025-4051-b273-c8ec7b6f93aa-405645
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-166321f9-817d-4b57-83a4-7dee39aab9fd

## Description

These test kits allow for field use in hospitals enabling the rapid on-site Point of Care \(POC\) testing for C-19 and have significant operational advantages over off-site Laboratory testing as they allow for virtually immediate test results without the delay of sending them to testing laboratories, thereby allowing for the safe reopening of vital services and reducing the economic damage being caused by the lockdown by allowing people to return to work confident in knowing that they are not carriers\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c8407d8c-5025-4051-b273-c8ec7b6f93aa-405645)