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OCID:
Published by:: South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Authority ID:: AA21850
Publication date:: 04 July 2015
Deadline date:: 10 August 2015
Notice type:: Contract Notice
Has documents:: No
Has SPD:: No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:: N/A

Abstract

Pathology services. Provision of an end to end consultant led pathology service (including but not limited to haematology,

biochemistry, immunology, toxicology, genetics, and microbiology). The Pathology Service will include specimen transport, test analysis and reporting, consultant support, implementation of electronic test requesting and provision of pathology consumables. Phlebotomy support is an optional service.

Full notice text

CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

Official Name: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Postal Address: Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham
Town: London	Postal Code: BR3 3BX	Country: UK
For the attention of: Tom Medhurst	Telephone:
E-Mail:	Fax:
General Address of the contracting authority (URL) www.slam.nhs.uk Address of the Buyers Profile (URL) Electronic access to information https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Beckenham:-Pathology-services./S6Q77H5245 Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/S6Q77H5245

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

Pathology Services.

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

Service category 27

II.1.2)

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

NUTS Code UKI

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)

Pathology services. Provision of an end to end consultant led pathology service (including but not limited to haematology,

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

	Main vocabulary	Supplementary vocabulary (when applicable)
Main object	85111800
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

Provision of an end to end consultant led pathology service (including but not limited to haematology, biochemistry, immunology, toxicology and microbiology) on an exclusive basis in accordance with a service specification to the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as requestors of pathology services in both Mental Health and community settings across 18 sites at various locations in South London and Kent as detailed within the tender document, who are mainly clinicians who provide mental health services to approximately 10 000 patients.

The contract will be for an initial period of 5 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years.

Estimated value range between4 500 000and 7 500 000
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

Period in month/s: 84(from the award of the contract)

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

Details included in the Invitation to Tender document.

III.1.2)

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

Details included in the Invitation to Tender document.

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

Any grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded may be required to form a single corporate entity, to put forward a single prime contractor and to subcontract where appropriate, or to assume joint and several liability for contract performance.

III.1.4)

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

At the time the contract is performed, the services must be delivered in accordance with all the relevant standards and regulatory requirements of the UK Accreditation Service (UKAS) specifically ISO15189, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the Health Protection Agency (HPA), and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and any other current requirement related to the provision of Pathology services within NHS and NHS Foundation Trust environments.

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 3 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

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?

Yes

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

Z/01/15

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Notice Number in OJ 2015/S 46-079108of 06-03-2015

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

Obtainable until

Price (where applicable) Currency:

Terms and method of payment:

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

10-08-2015 12:00

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

3 months from the deadline stated for receipt of tenders

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

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

Date: 10-8-2015 12:00
Place System will allow release of tenders after the closing date and time and not before.

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

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Beckenham:-Pathology-services./S6Q77H5245

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/S6Q77H5245

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Beckenham:-Pathology-services./S6Q77H5245

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/S6Q77H5245

GO Reference: GO-201571-PRO-6742678.

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:

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the decision to award the contract is communicated to tenderers. This decision notice will incorporate the award criteria, the reasons for the decision, the reasons (if any) why a tenderer did not meet any technical specification, the identity of the successful tenderer(s), the relative merits of the successful tenderer and a precise statement of when the standstill period is expected to end. Any appeal or challenge against the award decision must be communicated to the address stated in Section I.1 within the standstill period. If an appeal or challenge regarding the decision to award the contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have suffered harm or are at risk of harm by a breach of the procurement rules to take action in the High Court (England Wales and Northern Ireland).Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months) (NB this time limit may be reduced to 30 days in circumstances where the contract award has been publicised to all participants in accordance with the Regulations). Where a legal challenge is launched against the award decision SLaM is obliged to suspend the making of the contract. Where a challenge is made after the contract has been entered into then that contract could be declared ineffective and/or shortened and/or a fine imposed by the courts, but only where the courts are satisfied that there has been a serious breach of the procurement rules.

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

01-07-2015

SF 22

Coding

Commodity categories

ID	Title	Parent category
85111800	Pathology services	Hospital services

Delivery locations

ID	Description
100	UK - All

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

ID	Description
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Pathology Services.

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.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

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

III.3)

Conditions Specific to Service Contracts

III.3.1)

Is provision of the service reserved to a specific profession?

III.3.2)

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