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OCID:
Published by:: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Authority ID:: AA20650
Publication date:: 28 August 2015
Deadline date:: 25 October 2015
Notice type:: Contract Notice
Has documents:: No
Has SPD:: No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:: N/A

Abstract

Microbiological cultures. Invitation to tender for supply of pre-poured culture media to the Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust.

Full notice text

CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

Official Name: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Postal Address: 1 Mitre Building, Kitson Way
Town: Harlow	Postal Code: CM20 1DR	Country: UK
For the attention of: Bilal Ahmed	Telephone: +44 1279827954
E-Mail: bilal.ahmed@pah.nhs.uk	Fax:
General Address of the contracting authority (URL) Address of the Buyers Profile (URL) Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate https://secure.sourcedogg.com/profile/theprincessalexandrahospital/requests/5814

Further information can be obtained at:	As in above mentioned contact point(s) Other: Please complete Annex A.I
Specifications and further documents can be obtained at:	As in above mentioned contact point(s) Other: Please complete Annex A.II
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:	As in above mentioned contact point(s) Other: Please complete Annex A.III

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

	Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions
	National or federal agency/Office
	Regional or local Authority
	Regional or local Agency/Office
	Body governed by public law
	European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

	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

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: No

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Pre-Poured Culture Media.

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

NUTS Code UK

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)

Microbiological cultures. Invitation to tender for supply of pre-poured culture media to the Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

	Main vocabulary	Supplementary vocabulary (when applicable)
Main object	33698100
Additional objects

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

Estimated value range between50 000and 75 000
Currency: GBP

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

Starting 1-11-2015 Ending 31-10-2018

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

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 requirements are met:

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

(a) Appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.

(b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established.

(c) A statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.

Minimum level(s) of standard possibly required

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

(a) a list of the works carried out over the past five years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct;

(b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: — where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, — where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;

(c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work;

(d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities;

(e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;

(f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;

(g) for public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in appropriate cases, an indication of the environmental management measures that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the contract;

(h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last 3 years

(i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;

(j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract;

(k) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.

Minimum level(s) of standard possibly required

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

Envisaged minimum number

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

A) Lowest Price No

B) The most economically advantageous tender in terms of:

B1) Criteria as stated in contract documents: Yes

B2) Criteria as stated below: No

Criteria

Weighting

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

T-3223

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

Obtainable until 25-09-2015 17:00

Price (where applicable) Currency:

Terms and method of payment:

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

25-10-2015 17:00

IV.3.5)

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

Estimated date

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

Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders (where applicable)

Date: 26-10-2015
Place

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?

No

If yes, indicate the project/programme and any useful reference

VI.3)

Additional Information

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust is a member of the East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub covering the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Any resultant contract may be for the benefit of other organisations. The selected suppliers will be expected to supply all specified products from within their range as are required by the contracting authority from time to time. Future additions to their ranges will also be included. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the internet, and may also be through the medium of an electronic reverse auction. The contract is for the benefit of other participating NHS bodies and any other non NHS bodies which the participants deem necessary for the delivery of services or goods to NHS bodies, local authorities, other government departments or non-departmental public bodies charged with the delivery of healthcare related services.

To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=157581677

GO Reference: GO-2015825-PRO-6976976.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Official Name:
Postal Address:
Town:	Postal Code:	Country:
E-Mail:	Telephone:
Internet address (URL):	Fax:

Body responsible for mediation procedures

Official Name:
Postal Address:
Town:	Postal Code:	Country:
E-Mail:	Telephone:
Internet address (URL):	Fax:

VI.4.2)

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

VI.4.3)

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

Official Name:
Postal Address:
Town:	Postal Code:	Country:
E-Mail:	Telephone:
Internet address (URL):	Fax:

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice

25-08-2015

SF 22

Coding

Commodity categories

ID	Title	Parent category
33698100	Microbiological cultures	Clinical products

Delivery locations

ID	Description
100	UK - All

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID	Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

Main contact:: bilal.ahmed@pah.nhs.uk
Admin contact:: N/a
Technical contact:: N/a
Other contact:: N/a

Further information

Date	Details
No further information has been uploaded.

Pre-Poured Culture Media.

Contents

Summary

Abstract

Full notice text

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

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

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

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

II.1.3)

This notice involves

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

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)

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into 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.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

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

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

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

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

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