Ventilator supply chain call-out
The Government Commercial Function (GCF) needs help to build a resource pool to provide a rapid response to critical COVID-19 requirements, most urgently to deliver 30,000 new ventilators. Those with experience of working within the sectors below are asked to email with details.
- Medical device company or supplier
- Pharmaceutical company or a supplier
- Sub-contractors to those above
- Manufacturers of air compressors, sheet metal, pipes, valves, couplings, flow sensors, power supplies, industrial automation/testing.
The Government wants to reach as wide a commercial group as possible. Critical Components Designs are still being developed but it is likely that solutions will draw on some of the following generic categories of component, so manufacturers / suppliers with the follow capabilities would be of interest: Category
- Air Compressors / Pumps (e.g. piston, diaphragm, solenoid)
- Bellows
- Self-inflating bags (e.g. Ambu bags)
- Gas mixing valves (for oxygen/air mixing)
- Pressure Regulators (Oxygen rated)
- Flow Control valves
- Solenoid valves (e.g. 3/2 Medically rated switching valves)
- Pressure relief valves (for a range of pressures, inc. 150 and 350 mmH2O)
- Check valves/one-way valves (e.g. duckbill, umbrella)
- Industrial Automation components (Safety Relays, PLCs)
- Power Supplies (Medical Grade)
- Electric Motors, and motor controllers
- Linear actuators and controllers
- Tubing and fittings
- Pressure Sensors and Indicators
- Oxygen Sensors and Indicators
- Flow Sensors and Indicators
- Manometers
- Heat and moisture exchanging filters [HMEFs] (If needed for humidification and heating of inspiratory gas)
- Air Filter, HEPA Filters (If we need to filter COVID-19 out of exhaled gas and clean incoming air / as mix)
17 March 2020 |
