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

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

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

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)

Serco is an international service company, and has been selected as the NHS' strategic partner for the delivery of support services through Serco ASP. Serco ASP also provides services in partnership with the NHS and other health and social care organisations in a range of primary and community settings.

For this opportunity Serco ASP is acting as the agent for the following contracting authorities:

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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

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Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning difficulties and social care services to over 891 000 people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The Trust provides old peoples' healthcare and adult community services coordinated around the needs of the patients.

The blood glucose and ketone monitoring system will be used by the integrated neighbourhood community teams along with community hospitals and units. Through the use of a hand held system, it will enable monitoring of people with diabetes to assess diabetes control of blood glucose in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as assessing blood ketones in those with just type 1 diabetes.

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust's (CCS) vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities they serve to make their lives better. CCS provides a range of children's services to children, young people and families across Cambridgeshire.

Luton Community Unit is part of Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust. A range of community based services are provided, and most of these services are nurse led. Community nurses administer a substantial number of insulin injections, several times a day to housebound patients with Type 2 Diabetes and occasionally Type 1.

To enable them to administer insulin safely they require a blood glucose meter that is hand held, easy to use and records blood glucose results accurately, with the facility of a memory. As blood glucose results are used to adjust insulin by Diabetes Specialist Nurses and GPs, the meter needs to be quality assured daily and receive external quality control monthly for accuracy. Meters are also used by community school nurses and adult specialist nurses.

CPFT and CCS Luton require three separate services. These services will be separated by Lot 1, Lot 2, and Lot 3.

For Lot 1, CPFT and CCS Luton require 2 separate systems for blood glucose and ketone testing suitable for use by Health Care Professionals in a community setting. They would therefore require a meter for blood glucose testing and a separate meter for testing blood ketones.

For Lot 2, CPFT require an integrated system that is suitable for both blood glucose and blood ketone testing which is to be used by Health Care Professionals in a community setting. CPFT would therefore require a meter which has one or more component parts combining to form a unitary whole.

For Lot 3, CPFT and CCS Luton require an external quality assurance service that will test the meters on a monthly basis.

Suppliers can bid on all three Lots, a combination of two Lots or just a singular Lot. As such, the Lots may be awarded to three separate companies / oragnisations, a combination of two companies / organisations or just one company / organisation if it is deemed economically advantageous.

Depending on the evaluation of bids, CPFT and CCS Luton reserve the right to not award a Lot if it is deemed economically disadvantageous.

All expression of interests to participate in this opportunity and all information regarding this opportunity will be through the Supplying to the NHS tendering portal which can be found at https://procontract.due-north.com/SupplierPreLoginHome/ (Registration is free of charge).

Estimated Timescales:

Expression of Interest: 5.2.2016 — 7.3.2016

Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ): 5.2.2016 — 14.3.2016

Invitation To Tender (ITT) — Estimated 21.3.2016 — 15.4.2016

Contract Start date — 1.7.2016

The duration of the contract(s) is initially 36 months (from the contract start date) with two options to extend for a further 12 months each.

The time limits for receipt of expressions of interest, via the Supplying to the NHS tendering portal (https://procontract.due-north.com/SupplierPreLoginHome/) (registration is free of charge) are before the closing date of 16:00 on 7.3.2016. This is a fixed and firm date.

The time limits for receipt of the PQQ submissions, via the Supplying to the NHS tendering portal (https://procontract.due-north.com/SupplierPreLoginHome/) (registration is free of charge) are before the closing date of 16:00 on 14.3.2016. This is a fixed and firm date.

Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ): It is envisaged that the top 10 highest ranked compliant scoring Pre Qualification Questionnaire submissions will be shortlisted for the Invitation To Tender Stage for each of the Lots.

The Invitation To Tender documents will be available on the portal after your Expression of Interest has been accepted. Suppliers are encouraged to review the proposed Invitation To Tender documents prior to completing a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire in order to ensure that they are capable of fulfilling the contract requirement(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

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

III.1.2)

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

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

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

The Pre Qualification Questionnaire contains evaluation questions which may result in a supplier being automatically disqualified.

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

III.3)

Conditions Specific to Service Contracts

III.3.1)

Is provision of the service reserved to a specific profession?

III.3.2)

Will legal entities be required to state the names and professional qualifications of the personnel responsible for the execution of the service?

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

CPFT and CCS Luton require 3 separate services. These services will be separated by Lot 1, Lot 2, and Lot 3.For Lot 1, CPFT and CCS Luton require 2 separate systems for blood glucose and ketone testing suitable for use by Health Care Professionals in a community setting. They would therefore require a meter for blood glucose testing and a separate meter for testing blood ketones.For Lot 2, CPFT require an integrated system that is suitable for both blood glucose and blood ketone testing which is to be used by Health Care Professionals in a community setting. CPFT would therefore require a meter which has 1 or more component parts combining to form a unitary whole. For Lot 3, CPFT and CCS Luton require an external quality assurance service that will test the meters on a monthly basis. Suppliers can bid on all 3 Lots, a combination of 2 Lots or just a singular Lot. As such, the Lots may be awarded to 3 separate companies / oragnisations, a combination of 2 companies / organisations or just 1 company / organisation if it is deemed economically advantageous. Depending on the evaluation of bids, CPFT and CCS Luton reserve the right to not award a Lot if it is deemed economically disadvantageous.

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

DN110395

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

Serco is an international service company, and has been selected as the NHS' strategic partner for the delivery of support services through Serco ASP. Serco ASP also provides services in partnership with the NHS and other health and social care organisations in a range of primary and community settings. For this opportunity Serco ASP is acting as the agent for the following contracting authorities:— Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust— Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning difficulties and social care services to over 891,000 people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The Trust provides old peoples' healthcare and adult community services coordinated around the needs of the patients. The blood glucose and ketone monitoring system will be used by the integrated neighbourhood community teams along with community hospitals and units. Through the use of a hand held system, it will enable monitoring of people with diabetes to assess diabetes control of blood glucose in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as assessing blood ketones in those with just type 1 diabetes. Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust's (CCS) vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities they serve to make their lives better. CCS provides a range of children's services to children, young people and families across Cambridgeshire. Luton Community Unit is part of Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust. A range of community based services are provided, and most of these services are nurse led. Community nurses administer a substantial number of insulin injections, several times a day to housebound patients with Type 2 Diabetes and occasionally Type 1. To enable them to administer insulin safely they require a blood glucose meter that is hand held, easy to use and records blood glucose results accurately, with the facility of a memory. As blood glucose results are used to adjust insulin by Diabetes Specialist Nurses and GPs, the meter needs to be quality assured daily and receive external quality control monthly for accuracy. Meters are also used by community school nurses and adult specialist nurses. CPFT and CCS Luton require three separate services. These services will be separated by Lot 1, Lot 2, and Lot 3.For Lot 1, CPFT and CCS Luton require two separate systems for blood glucose and ketone testing suitable for use by Health Care Professionals in a community setting. They would therefore require a meter for blood glucose testing and a separate meter for testing blood ketones. For Lot 2, CPFT require an integrated system that is suitable for both blood glucose and blood ketone testing which is to be used by Health Care Professionals in a community setting. CPFT would therefore require a meter which has 1 or more component parts combining to form a unitary whole. For Lot 3, CPFT and CCS Luton require an external quality assurance service that will test the meters on a monthly basis. Suppliers can bid on all three Lots, a combination of two Lots or just a singular Lot. As such, the Lots may be awarded to three separate companies / oragnisations, a combination of two companies / organisations or just one company / organisation if it is deemed economically advantageous. Depending on the evaluation of bids, CPFT and CCS Luton reserve the right to not award a Lot if it is deemed economically disadvantageous All expression of interests to participate in this opportunity and all information regarding this opportunity will be through the Supplying to the NHS tendering portal which can be found at https://procontract.due-north.com/SupplierPreLoginHome/ (Registration is free of charge) Estimated Timescales: Expression of Interest: 5.2.2016 — 7.3.2016 Pre Qualification Questionnaire(PQQ): 5.2.2016 — 14.3.2016 Invitation To Tender (ITT) — Estimated 21.3.2016 — 15.4.2016 Contract Start date — 1.7.2016 The duration of the contract(s) is initially 36 months (from the contract start date) with 2 options to extend for a further 12 months each. The time limits for receipt of expressions of interest, via the Supplying to the NHS tendering portal (https://procontract.due-north.com/SupplierPreLoginHome/) (registration is free of charge) are before the closing date of 16:00 on 7.3.2016. This is a fixed and firm date. The time limits for receipt of the PQQ submissions, via the Supplying to the NHS tendering portal (https://procontract.due-north.com/SupplierPreLoginHome/) (registration is free of charge) are before the closing date of 16:00 on 14.3.2016. This is a fixed and firm date. Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ): It is envisaged that the top 10 highest ranked compliant scoring Pre Qualification Questionnaire submissions will be shortlisted for the Invitation To Tender Stage for each of the Lots. The Invitation To Tender documents will be available on the portal after your Expression of Interest has been accepted. Suppliers are encouraged to review the proposed Invitation To Tender documents prior to completing a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire in order to ensure that they are capable of fulfilling the contract requirement(s).

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:

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice

ANNEX A

Additional Addresses and Contact Points

I)

Address and contact points from which further information can be obtained

II)

Address and contact points from which specifications and additional documentation may be obtained

III)

Address and contact points to which Tenders/Requests to Participate must be sent