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When they announced the care homes trial in July they stated that they were working on a simplified test for use with the q\16 and q32 devices.

BABA , the development of PROmate was first announced in July, two month's before the NPT contract was signed.

Does anybody have anymore info on the DPS that the DHSC are supposed to be setting up for covid19 test's , reagents and lab equipment? The advance notice gave guidance that news would be released mid January, but so far nothing seems to have materialised.

B2HS2L, from what I can find out all imported covid19 test's need Canadian evaluation and approval. Seems to be a slow process .
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-industry/medical-devices/testing/applications.html

ShaunP, interesting statement at the end of that news release - Winterplex FDA EUA pending.

ShaunP, i came across this link link to lamp testing in the NHS. It would appear they have set up a programme to recruit and train third year Biomedical undergraduates to help with the lamp testing of asymptomatic staff.
https://nshcs.hee.nhs.uk/coronavirus-covid-19-information/ptp-lamp-work-placement-programme/

According to the UNICEF website they secured the supply of 7 million covid19 test's in 2020 and by December they had delivered 5.6 million of these . I can't find a breakdown of the supplier's. This year they aim to significantly increase the number of test's procured ,but there seems to be a greater emphasis on rapid test's for low income countries.
https://www.unicef.org/supply/unicef-creates-fund-support-low-and-middle-income-countries-access-covid-19-health-supplies

ShaunP, sorry I got my week's mixed up with day's in that earlier post and I didn't realise the Genie HT could do 96 test's per run . All it needs now is a more sensitive assay.

I took a look at the LinkedIn page for Novacyts head of R+D earlier . From a sentence talking about the job she say's- During this time I have had a strong focus on continuing to lead the external , client led R+D aspect of Primer Design. I wonder who that client could be

ShaunP, according to this link Liverpool Clinical Laboratories have set up a brand new lamp lab .When up to full speed it will have a test capacity of 38,000 covid19 saliva samples a day .If you look on the bottom left picture you can see they are using the Optigene Genie HT instrument which has a capacity of 12 test's . This is the first time that I have been able to find any info on their use in the NHS. The big question is what have Novacyt got planned with their forthcoming lamp test ? Originally lamp was mentioned for large scale screening of NHS staff . However that plan changed at the beginning of November when they started using the Innova lft's to test staff .Could they now be reverting to a more widespread use of lamp for screening staff? We saw a contract award for £40 million's worth of sample collection tubes and funnels two week's ago . Might they be for collection of saliva for lamp testing .
https://mobile.twitter.com/lplclinlabs/status/1351549720867516416

When the half year result's came out Novacyt stated - For the first time the Group has been able to benefit from the UK Patent Box Regime, which is a special low corporate tax rate used by several countries to incentivise research and development by taxing patent revenues differently from other commercial revenues. Subject to a number of adjustment's, the effective rate of tax on profit's derived from the sale of product's subject to patent's is close to 10% rather than the normal UK tax rate of 19% .The Patent Box rate is normally claimed once a patent has been granted ,but it is likely the Group's product's will fall within a specific exemption allowing the reduced rate to be claimed immediately. Due to the uncertainty over the detail's of the full calculation, for current reporting purposes a reduced corporation tax rate of 12% on profit's from patented product's has been assumed. Since those result's were released Novacyt have applied for patent's on 16 product's , which were published in the Patent Journal on 02/12/2020 .If Novacyt are successful with this claim for a reduced rate of tax on newly patented product's it will lead to substantial reduction in tax.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing

ShaunP, you asked the question where has the other £23 million come from . One million of this came from the first deal in mid March. I strongly suspect that some of the remaining £22 million will be for testing at Cambridge . Although Novacyt work for AZ at that site all costs are invoiced to the DHSC. Another source for some of this money could have been an increase in the original supply contract through September and October. During that time the virus really took hold again and if you look on the Covid dashboard you can see how the number of Pillar1 daily test's (NHS and PHE) increased throughout those month's . It's also worth looking at the historical daily Pillar 1 testing capacity figures .You can see exactly when new extra test's were added to the capacity, especially at the end of October .
https://coronavirus.data.gov/details/testing
Click on data for the daily test's completed etc.

Bramley 67, the award you are looking at is the first order that Novacyt received for supplying the NHS from March last year . It was put out in an rns at the time .If I remember correctly I think eight hospital's were trying out the new Covid test. That first order through the DHSC marked the start of an incredible 2020 for Novacyt .Hope this helps.

B2HS2L, good point , I did think the fact that the closing date wasn't till 12/02/21 didn't seem to suggest any urgency.

https://jobs.newscientist.com/en-gb/job/1401724684/molecular-biology-technician/

Looking at the job description for a Molecular Biology Technician at It-Is-International it appears they are receiving samples to test for covid19 .The successful applicant will will responsible for analysing these and troubleshooting the controlling software .This could be new software to run the q16 and q32 devices in lamp mode , or failing that a new device all together with the capacity to run more test's. The job itself is permanent and only three hour's a day, which might make recruitment more difficult . A question to informed poster's, does anyone know if there have been any advances in the Peltier elements since the q32 was launched ? These elements provide the rapid warming and cooling for the q16 and q32 devices .Any improvements could possibly improve cycle times.
https://jobs.newscientist.com/en-en/job/1401724684/molecular-biology-technician/

I've just had a look at the job details for the clinical trial's director at the Blizzard Institute. It does state that an alternative name for the job title could be Vaccination Programme Operations Director . In the job description it also mentions liasing with clinical trial stakeholders and driving trial progress.
Then in the latest job for a PCR technician they are looking for a person with some experience within the pharmaceutical industry working with clinical trial's.
It seems they are working on more than just validating new products from Novacyt. I do know that the QUML are recruiting volunteers to take part in a year long study of the Johnson Johnson covid19 vaccine , supported by the UK gov. This is due to start in March with volunteers having 2 doses 28 day's apart .However I can't find any connection to Novacyt, more research required.
https://www.totaljobs.com/job/clinical-director/novacyt-job91346723
https://cktechnical.co.uk/job/PCR-Technician/9cf411e622lLLD/

Up to date list's of test's that have been been removed .Just click on questions 1,2 or 3.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/removal-lists-tests-should-no-longer-be-used-andor-distributed-covid-19-faqs-testing-sars-cov-2

Stun180, according to the contract invoices were to be submitted on October 15th and 31st, then on the last day of November and December. These invoices would be for all services and materials supplied during the preceding period before each of these dates.