Kitting & Logistics
Sampled’s comprehensive services cover technical support, instrument validation, and secure sample logistics. Customized clinical and research kitting ensures quality materials for clinical and research sample collection.
What Are Sampled’s Kitting and Logistics Services?
As a Global Integrated Analytical Biorepository (GIAB), Sampled offers a comprehensive suite of services encompassing custom clinical and research kitting, technical services, validation services, and sample logistics to support a broad range of research and clinical needs.
Custom Clinical and Research Kitting
Custom Clinical Kitting: Sampled’s custom clinical kitting service provides tailor-made kits for clinical sample collection, utilizing high-quality materials that meet stringent quality standards. These kits are meticulously audited and quality-approved to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures and clinical requirements, delivering the utmost precision in sample collection.
Custom Research Kitting: Our custom research kitting service is designed to meet the specific needs of our clients. These bespoke kits incorporate top-quality materials and undergo rigorous quality checks by our kitting team, ensuring seamless compatibility with various research projects.
Our experts design kits tailored to your specific clinical or research needs. Clients can oversee the kit’s design and can request changes. Photos and demo kits can be provided for approval. We discuss development and shipping timescales, with a potential 48-hour turnaround. After client approval, orders are placed, kits are assembled, and barcoded for traceability. Rigorous quality assurance checks are performed before packaging and shipping, managed by our logistics team. Users receive one-page instructions for sample collection and return kits via our courier services. Upon receipt, samples are processed ready for bioprocessing or storage.
Sample Logistics
Sampled’s sample logistics services encompass the secure and timely transportation of biospecimens, both within our facilities and externally to our clients. We adhere to International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) guidelines and international regulations, ensuring the integrity of biospecimens during transport. Our expert logistics team manages shipping and collection to guarantee the safe and prompt delivery of samples, supporting the seamless operation of our research and clinical services.
Sampled offers an efficient biosample collection with customizable, quality-tested kits for secure shipping. Registration and validation, supported by our LIMS, ensure accurate and secure data storage. Robust storage facilities maintain samples at specified temperatures (-80°C, -20°C, 4°C, room temperature, or liquid/vapor phase nitrogen). Stringent security includes chain-of-custody documentation, backup generators, independent freezer monitors, and data protection compliance (Title 21 CFR part 11 and HIPAA). Outward shipment is expertly organized by our logistics team to ensure clients receive samples quickly and in optimal condition.
Technical Services
Sampled’s technical services encompass an array of equipment support services for critical instruments used in sample and product testing. This includes routine servicing, 24-hour breakdown support, validation, calibration, and the supply of critical and spare parts. We also offer monitoring systems to ensure equipment uptime and regulatory compliance.
We offer routine servicing, including system cleaning and functionality assessment, providing robust documentation for regulatory compliance. Breakdown support entails swift response and equipment inspection by our expert engineers, with sample storage available if needed. Calibration services ensure equipment accuracy with state-of-the-art instrumentation. We also supply parts from various manufacturers, monitor equipment conditions, and provide more comprehensive validation services for regulatory compliance and evidence accumulation.
Validation Services
Our validation services rigorously test equipment performance, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Whether for existing equipment or new acquisitions, we offer comprehensive validation testing to guarantee optimal functionality, delivering confidence in results and data quality.
We provide equipment validation services for both new and old equipment to ensure regulatory compliance. This process includes Installation Qualification to verify physical specifications, Operational Qualification to assess operational capabilities, and Performance Qualification to test accuracy using various probes. Yearly renewal options demonstrate ongoing compliance with regulations.
Why Use Sampled’s Kitting and Logistics Service?
Expertise
Our teams are consummate experts in their domains, spanning custom kit design, logistics, validation, equipment repair, and maintenance. As pioneers in ICH stability testing outsourcing and the first GIAB, our vast knowledge and experience gives our clients access to world-class experts.
Efficiency
At Sampled we strive for efficiency in all the services we offer. Our streamlined end-to-end kitting service is underscored by pre-barcoded collection kits, ensuring a seamless chain of custody. Vigilant sample monitoring guarantees your peace of mind, while our logistics team ensures punctual deliveries. Our technical and validation services are always ready to respond to our client’s needs, especially in emergencies.
High-End Instruments and Materials
Employing state-of-the-art, nationally standardized instruments guarantees optimal equipment performance and maximum uptime. This not only minimizes errors but ensures that your projects operate seamlessly and maintain regulatory compliance. We exclusively employ top-tier materials in our kits, all validated for at least three months. Rigorous quality checks, overseen by experienced quality assurance and kitting teams, enforce the use of high-caliber, in-date materials.
Collaborative Approach
At Sampled, we perceive our clients as collaborative partners and fully invest in your project’s success. Leveraging our extensive expertise and experience, we offer consultative support, readily sharing knowledge to facilitate your success.
Reliability
You can always rely on our swift-acting kitting and logistics teams. At Sampled, we understand that delays in bringing a drug to market can be costly. Our robust technical and validation systems empower us to swiftly dispatch engineers, provide storage options during repairs, and minimize downtime, allowing you to adhere to your deadlines. Our logistics and kitting teams are always ready to offer advice and solve any issues that may arise.
Robust Documentation
Our documentation complies with the highest standards. Our barcoding and integrated laboratory information management system (LIMS) ensures sample security at all stages. Our technical and validation teams maintain meticulous documentation that satisfies auditors and regulatory bodies. By partnering with Sampled, you can trust in the security and compliance of your documentation.
Kitting and Logistics Applications
At Sampled, our kitting and logistics services serve a wide range of applications depending on the needs of our clients.
Custom Clinical and Research Kitting:
- Clinical: we work with a broad range of clinical applications, from diagnostics to clinical trials and everything in between.
- Research: whatever your research needs, we can develop a sample collection kit to meet them.
Technical and Validation Services:
- Drug testing
- Clinical trials
- Cosmetics testing
- Nutraceutical testing
- Vaccines
- Medical device testing
- Drug discovery
- Research studies
- Sample storage
Our sample logistics service is central to almost all of the services we offer here at Sampled. Thus, our service supports a vast array of applications such as:
- Disease identification
- Diagnostics
- Drug discovery
- Pharmacogenomics
- Clinical trials
- Research studies
- Biomarker discovery
- Population health studies
- Novel genome assembly
- Agrigenomics
- Disease modeling
- Development modeling
- Drug testing
- Cosmetics testing
- Nutraceutical testing
- Medical device testing
Kitting and Logistics Input Requirements
Custom Clinical and Research Kitting:
We have a vast experience base in designing kits and processing a broad array of sample types, including:
- Blood
- Serum
- Saliva
- Tissue biopsies
- Hair
- Nail
- Stool
- Urine
- Semen
- Cell line samples/pellets
- Protein samples
- Isolated nucleic acids (DNA/RNA)
In addition to these inputs our logistics team processes every input requirement for all services we offer here at Sampled including:
- Plasma
- Buccal swabs
- Pharmaceuticals
- Bulk pharmaceutical chemicals
- Cosmetics
- Nutraceuticals
- Vaccines
- Medical devices
Technical and Validation Services
Our technical and validation teams are ready to perform maintenance, repair, and validation on a range of equipment linked to sample/drug testing. This includes but is not limited to:
- Fridges
- Freezers
- ICH stability chambers
- Incubators
- Light cabinets
- Bulbs
Find out more about Sampled’s kitting and logistics services
Interested in outsourcing your technical, validation, and logistics needs to a trusted team of experts? Do you need help or advice on how to ship your samples appropriately? Get in touch with Sampled today to discover how our kitting and logistics services can solve all of your problems.
