Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Isle of Wight Primary Care Trust wishes to award a Managed Service Contract (MSC) for 8 years (with the option for two 1 year extensions) that will allow us to replace our existing fleet of ageing blood gas analysers (BGAs) and also standardise equipment and test repertoire across the site whilst providing improved contingency on the current provision. The new analysers will be cartridge d to minimise operator-dependant steps, maintenance and downtime due to poor quality samples or operator error. The Trust also wishes to achieve full IT connectivity to ensure blood gas results are transmitted into our trust electronic patient reporting systems and achieve remote monitoring of all BGA’s.