CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Other (Please specify) joint venture between Department of Health and SopraSteria

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

Purchase		Rent		Lease
Hire-purchase		Combination of these

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Framework agreement with nationwide coverage.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

NHS SBS's existing Urology Products framework has provided a compliant route to market for our Participating Authorities and Customers and initial market feedback to the new tender project has been extremely positive.

The new framework will enable suppliers to work with Participating Authorities and Customers to identify further opportunities to determine the clinical efficacy of products for patients, manage stock levels, reduce stock waste, and achieve

greater efficiencies and savings.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

one lot only

one or more lots

all lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU Supply eTendering

portal: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com

III.1.2)

Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU Supply eTendering

portal: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU Supply eTendering

portal: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:

This procurement exercise will be conducted on the EU supply eTendering portal at: https://nhssbs.eusupply.com

Candidates wishing to be considered for this agreement must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through this portal. To register interest:

1) Go to ‘Current Tender Opportunities’ from the eTendering portal login page: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com

2) Find the tender listed and click on the title. This will take you to the letter of invitation.

3) If you are not a registered user of EU Supply follow the ‘Online registration’ link otherwise follow the ‘Login’ link and enter username and password.

4) Once logged in ‘Accept’ the invitation to register your interest in the opportunity. You will then be taken direct to the tender response screen.

5) Go to the ‘Access Documents’ folder on the response screen to view and download tender documentation.

Further guidance on how to access and respond to the opportunity is available in the ‘Quick Guide for Suppliers’

which is available for downloading from the main portal login page: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com

(follow link: ‘Quick Guide for Suppliers’).

For any support in submitting your response please contact EU Supply Helpdesk at support@eu-supply.com (Tel: 0800 840 2050) quoting the tender ID number.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

SBS/17/RC/FXB/9180

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

The duration referenced in Section II 1.4 is for the placing of orders.

The value provided in Section II 1.4 is only an estimate. We cannot guarantee to successful suppliers any business through this framework agreement. Spend and volumes may vary throughout the life of the framework agreement from the anticipated levels given in this notice.

NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) wishes to establish a Framework Agreement (acting on behalf of its clients) for use by the following UK, Isle of Man and Scottish bodies (and any future successors to these organisations) subject to the approval of NHS SBS:

Public sector bodies, including any statutory and other successor organisations to any of the foregoing and in addition any other commissioners (whether alone or jointly with any other organisation), providers and regulators of NHS funded (either in whole or in part) services including practice based commissioning consortia, general practice commissioning consortia, the National Commissioning Board (and all sub national offices including any body obtaining new membership to NHS Shared Business Services Ltd).

This includes but is not limited to the following NHS Trusts:-

5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool

Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, East Cheshire NHS Trust, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Kent and Medway NHS Partnership Trust, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust, Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust, Mersey Care NHS Trust, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Plymouth Community Healthcare, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, St. Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust, Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, Wrightington Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, NHS England, NHS Cumbria CCG, NHS Darlington CCG, NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG, NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG, NHS North Durham CCG, NHS North Tyneside CCG, NHS Northumberland CCG, NHS South Tees

CCG, NHS South Tyneside CCG, NHS Sunderland CCG, NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG, NHS Brent CCG, NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG, NHS Ealing CCG, NHS Harrow CCG, NHS Hammersmith & Fulham CCG, NHS Hillingdon CCG, NHS Hounslow CCG, NHS West London CCG

In addition, the following public sector bodies will be able to use the Framework subject to the approval of NHS SBS:

Central Government Departments, Executive Agencies and NDPBs

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations

http://resources.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/PB12.pdf

National Health Service (NHS) bodies, including:

Acute Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx

Clinical Commissioning Groups: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx

Mental Health Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx

Ambulance Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AmbulanceTrustListing.aspx

Care Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx

Area Teams: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx

Special Health Authorities: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx

other English NHS bodies: http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/Pages/ServiceSearch.aspx

Arms Length Bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arms-length-bodies/our-arms-length-bodies

The NHS Commissioning Board and other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing General

Practitioner services and GP consortia which will be responsible for commissioning most aspects of NHS care (or equivalent body/bodies established pursuant to legislation enacted as a result of, or in connection with, the White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS published July 2010.

GP Practices: http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/Pages/ServiceSearch.aspx, and: http://www.generalpractitioners-uk.co.uk/

and any other provider of primary medical services:

a) who are a party to any of the following contracts:

— General Medical Services (GMS),

— Personal Medical Services (PMS),

— Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) and/or

b) Commissioned by the NHS Commissioning Board or other organisations involved in commissioning or

overseeing General Practitioner services, as described above.

Social Enterprises: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107105354/http://www.dh.gov.uk/

prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_119228.pdf

Local Authorities:

https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-council

NHS Wales (National Health Service for Wales) including but not limited to: Welsh Health Boards, Primary care services — GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services:

http://www.nhsdirect.wales.nhs.uk/localservices/localhealthboards/

Other Welsh Public Bodies — Welsh Local Authorities

NHS Scotland (National Health Service for Scotland) including but not limited to: NHS Boards, Hospitals,

Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services:

http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/index.aspx

Other Scottish Public Bodies:- Scottish Government, Scottish Local Authorities, Scottish Agencies, NDPBs,

Scottish Further and Higher Education Boards, Scottish Police, Scottish Fire and Rescue, Scotland Citizens

Advice, Scottish Schools and Scottish Housing Associations.

NHS Northern Ireland (National Health Service for Northern Ireland) including but not limited to: Health and

Social Care Trusts, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, social care services and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services:

http://www.hscni.net/

Northern Ireland Public Bodies including Local Authorities, Schools, Police Service, Citizens Advice.

Local Authorities

https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-council

Any commercial, not-for-profit, or other charitable entity created, controlled and financed by a local authority or authorities with regard to provision of services captured by this framework

Police forces and other emergency services, including fire and rescue services, the maritime and coastguard agency and other rescue authorities (a list of police authorities and fire and rescue services can be found respectively at the following: http://www.police.uk/. and http://www.fireservice.co.uk/information/ukfrs

Educational establishments Educational Establishments in England and Wales, maintained by the Department for Children, Schools and Families including Schools, Universities and Colleges but NOT

Independent Schools http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase

Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) or Private Registered Providers of social housing (PRPs), a list of such

authorities being available at: https://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/ourwork/registered-provider-information

Third Sector and Registered charities, as detailed at http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk

Devolved and other administrations with the British Isles, including those detailed at: (in the case of Scotland)

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Home, and http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/, (in the case of Wales) http://

new.wales.gov.uk/?llang=en

Her Majesty's prison service as detailed at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-prison-service

The Ministry of Defence as detailed at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence

Isle of Man Government Health / Public Services

http://www.gov.im/health/

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

OJEU procedures include a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to bidders. This period allows unsuccessful bidders to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Such information should be requested from NHS SBS. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly.

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

For use with an indwelling catheter.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Further details can be found in the Document 5 Specification issued as part of the ITT document bundle.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

The aim of this Lot is to offer a range of Dispensing and Appliance Contractors Services for Urology products and consumables on prescription for patients, which are fast, convenient and confidential.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

External Continence Appliance for males.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Further details can be found in the Document 5 Specification issued as part of the ITT document bundle.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

The requirement is for a Bagless urine drainage system, designed to replace the use of night urine drainage.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Further details can be found in the Document 5 Specification issued as part of the ITT document bundle.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Further details can be found in the Document 5 Specification issued as part of the ITT document bundle.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

The Tenderer is required to provide single or multiple options from the list of requirements provided in the Document 5 Specification.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Further details can be found in the Document 5 Specification issued as part of the ITT document bundle.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Further details can be found in the Document 5 Specification issued as part of the ITT document bundle.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots