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Contract Notice

BCHC-19-0012 Receipts and Distribution Service (inc External Mail)

  • First published: 20 January 2020
  • Last modified: 20 January 2020
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Summary

OCID:
Published by:
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Authority ID:
AA62958
Publication date:
20 January 2020
Deadline date:
18 February 2020
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

Scope of services include:

1) The daily collection of internal (intra) Trust mail, which is primarily collected from and delivered to the reception desk. Once collected the mail is returned to a central point for sorting, allocation and delivery to the recipient site within 1 business day;

2) The daily collection of external Trust mail, which is primarily collected from the reception desk. The collected mail is returned to a central point for sorting into a format to minimise franking costs following which the Contractor is to make the necessary arrangements for delivery or collection by The Royal Mail or other postal service provider. The contractor is required to collect and maintain usage information on the number, type and expenditure of external mail processed;

3) The collection of controlled drugs, pharmaceutical and other medical products from the Trust’s Central Pharmacy Store at West Health Hospital, (B38 8HR) and delivery to the Trust’s Health Centres or directly to the patient. This will frequently involve the transportation of temperature controlled items to which the contractor will need to provide evidence of the item(s) being maintained at the controlled temperature throughout the delivery process;

4) The collection of sealed files containing patient records from Trust’s Health Centres and the delivery to the Trust’s designated delivery point. The contractor must ensure these are transported in a safe and secure way;

5) The daily receipt of supplies from third party suppliers, e.g. NHS Supply Chain and the safe and secure temporary storage of these items until their onward delivery to Trust or patient address within 5 working days of receipt of the goods;

6) The daily delivery to patient addresses within the Birmingham area of clinical and non-clinical items as instructed;

7) The weekly/monthly collection of staff payslips from a central point, currently; BCHC Payroll Dept., Regent Court, 14-17 George Street, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 1NU and subsequent redistribution by the internal mail system or by external mail to staff home addresses;

8) The Bi monthly collection from a third party supplier of the Trust ‘ARCHway’ magazine and subsequent redistribution by the internal mail system to every Trust site as listed in Appendix 7;

9) The ad-hoc receipt, temporary storage and re-delivery of materials as instructed by the Trust;

10) The ad-hoc collection and temporary storage of redundant IT and other pieces of electrical equipment for redistribution within the Trust or collection by the Trust nominated disposal contractor;

11) From time to time and as operational requirements dictate it will be necessary for the Trust to request special emergency deliveries outside the usual delivery criteria.

Full notice text

Contract notice

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

1st Floor, Trust Headquarters, 3-Priestley Wharf, Holt Street

Birmingham

B7 4BN

UK

Contact person: Stephen Kitson

Telephone: +44 1214666000

E-mail: tenders@bhamcommunity.nhs.uk

NUTS: UKG3

Internet address(es)

Main address: http://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk

I.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:

https://procontract.due-north.com/register


Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address


Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:

https://procontract.due-north.com/register


I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Other: NHS Foundation Trust

I.5) Main activity

Health

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

BCHC-19-0012 Receipts and Distribution Service (inc External Mail)

Reference number: DN444677

II.1.2) Main CPV code

60160000

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

Provision of a receipts and distribution service to approx. 200 Trust locations and 120 patients addresses within the Birmingham and wider Birmingham area.

Service includes – daily col and del of internal and external mail (inc franking), weekly col and del of pharmacy items from B38 to 65 trust locations, del and col of patient notes, receipt of weekly NHS Supply Chain roll cages and temp storage of items prior to del to Trust locations and patient addresses services may require ad-hoc col and del requests the Bham Clean Air Zone will apply to this contract from 2021.

TUPE is applicable and 8 staff have been identified for transfer

A financial envelope of 370 000 GBP ex vat is applicable to the core services only, bids will be rejected it this is exceeded.

Contract is for 3 fixed and 2 optional years.

Docs relating to this service are only through the e-tendering portal https://procontract.due-north.com/regis

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

60160000

60161000

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKG3

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

Scope of services include:

1) The daily collection of internal (intra) Trust mail, which is primarily collected from and delivered to the reception desk. Once collected the mail is returned to a central point for sorting, allocation and delivery to the recipient site within 1 business day;

2) The daily collection of external Trust mail, which is primarily collected from the reception desk. The collected mail is returned to a central point for sorting into a format to minimise franking costs following which the Contractor is to make the necessary arrangements for delivery or collection by The Royal Mail or other postal service provider. The contractor is required to collect and maintain usage information on the number, type and expenditure of external mail processed;

3) The collection of controlled drugs, pharmaceutical and other medical products from the Trust’s Central Pharmacy Store at West Health Hospital, (B38 8HR) and delivery to the Trust’s Health Centres or directly to the patient. This will frequently involve the transportation of temperature controlled items to which the contractor will need to provide evidence of the item(s) being maintained at the controlled temperature throughout the delivery process;

4) The collection of sealed files containing patient records from Trust’s Health Centres and the delivery to the Trust’s designated delivery point. The contractor must ensure these are transported in a safe and secure way;

5) The daily receipt of supplies from third party suppliers, e.g. NHS Supply Chain and the safe and secure temporary storage of these items until their onward delivery to Trust or patient address within 5 working days of receipt of the goods;

6) The daily delivery to patient addresses within the Birmingham area of clinical and non-clinical items as instructed;

7) The weekly/monthly collection of staff payslips from a central point, currently; BCHC Payroll Dept., Regent Court, 14-17 George Street, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 1NU and subsequent redistribution by the internal mail system or by external mail to staff home addresses;

8) The Bi monthly collection from a third party supplier of the Trust ‘ARCHway’ magazine and subsequent redistribution by the internal mail system to every Trust site as listed in Appendix 7;

9) The ad-hoc receipt, temporary storage and re-delivery of materials as instructed by the Trust;

10) The ad-hoc collection and temporary storage of redundant IT and other pieces of electrical equipment for redistribution within the Trust or collection by the Trust nominated disposal contractor;

11) From time to time and as operational requirements dictate it will be necessary for the Trust to request special emergency deliveries outside the usual delivery criteria.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: 370 000.00  GBP

II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Duration in months: 36

This contract is subject to renewal: Yes

Description of renewals:

Re-tendering of the service will commence within the final fixed year or within an optional year 1 or 2 should these be taken.

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

II.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 18/02/2020

Local time: 12:00

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

EN

IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 18/02/2020

Local time: 13:00

Place:

Tenders will be opened after the date and deadline stated using the e-tendering portal and breaking the seal which will allow bid responses to be accessed.

Information about authorised persons and opening procedure:

The person opening the tender will be as per the Trust scheme of Delegation and will be an Exec Director to the board as stated within the e-tendering portal under ‘verifier’.

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: Yes

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Birmingham

UK

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

17/01/2020

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
60160000 Mail transport by road Road transport services
60161000 Parcel transport services Mail transport by road

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:
tenders@bhamcommunity.nhs.uk
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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