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)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) are seeking to procure, via the Restricted Procurement procedure, with services with acute hospital pathology experience, to play a key role in the provision of an end to end pathology service, including but not limited to the provision of:

— The provision of Clinical Blood Sciences including Blood Transfusion, Microbiology, Virology, Cytology and Immunology;

— The provision of acute hospital pathology services to the Trust, including all required analysers, equipment, reagents and consumables;

— The planning, transition, implementation, operation and management arrangements, all designed to ensure that the potential provider establishes and provides appropriate high quality pathology services;

— The provision of an on-site pathology service for an agreed repertoire of tests;

— The provision of off-site and referral tests from their host laboratory;

— The provision and oversight of Point of Care Testing (PoCT) on the RNOH site;

— The integration/ interface for electronic requesting and reporting through the Hospitals Anglia ICE system.

A key aspect of the procurement will be to agree on the most advantageous commercial arrangements within which the Trust and the PP will deliver the required services.

It is envisaged that the contract will be awarded in October 2016. The contract duration will be for a core 5 years for acute pathology services, with the option for the Trust to extend the contract for a further 2 years, and potentially longer depending on performance, in yearly periods.

This notice is supported by full Pre-Qualification Questionnaire documentation and a Specification which sets out in more detail the requirements of the Trust. This documentation is available via https://www.lppsourcing.org

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

Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer and Managed Service Contract for further details.

III.1.2)

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

As specified in the contract documents.

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

Requests to participate will be accepted from groupings of economic operators (consortia). In the event of a successful consortium bid, the Trust may specify that the consortium takes a particular legal form and/or require that a single consortium member takes primary liability or that each member undertakes joint and severable liability irrespective of the legal form adopted. Where a subsidiary company is used, the ultimate parent company may be required to provide a guarantee in respect of the performance of the contract by the subsidiary before acceptance.

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

Any supplier may be disqualified who:

(a) Is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the Court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;

(b) Is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order compulsory winding up the administration by the Court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations;

(c) Has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct;

(d) Has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contract authorities can demonstrate;

(e) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;

(f) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;

(g) Is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information;

(h) Has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organization, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA;

(i) Has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;

(j) Has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities;

(k) Has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.

This will be evaluated via a Dun & Bradstreet financial assessment.

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

Based on PQQ response and PQQ evaluation Criteria.

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

PRO/102/2016

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

Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity. The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on: https://www.lppsourcing.org You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. In order to register for a free account, please follow the link above and create an account for your organisation. Please, wherever possible, use a generic organisation group email address, rather than addresses of individual staff members, to avoid communications and notifications being missed. Only 1 account for each supplier should be created. If you have any queries, please contact Nuntima Lloyd Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you. The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 24.6.2016 (12:00). Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents. If you experience any technical difficulties please contact the Due North Help desk on call 0845 293 0459 (8:30 until 17:30, Monday to Friday except Bank Holidays) or email: support@due-north.com Expressions of Interest must be submitted through the Due North eTendering portal. RNOH NHS Trust must not be contacted directly in relation to this contract and will only address questions raised through the Due-North eTendering portal and will not reply to any such direct emails or telephone calls. The Due North reference for this opportunity is A6QE943L87. When required, pricing must be in Sterling and payments under the contract will be made in Sterling. The contract is expected to last for 60 months. The contract will be governed by English law. RNOH NHS Trust reserves the right to annul the tendering process and not award a contract. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Internet. The tender exercise will be coordinated through a procurement panel of representatives. Further information will be sent out in the tender documentation. Bidder clarifications, if applicable, will be held after receipt of the Invitation to Tender documents have been returned and suppliers must make themselves available for them. RNOH NHS Trust does not bind itself to accept the lowest offer or any offer either in part, each item for this purpose being treated as separately. RNOH NHS Trust cannot be held responsible for any costs incurred by offerors in relation to the preparation of their and any subsequent post offer clarifications. Suppliers must use the file reference PRO/102/2016 in all correspondence. Suppliers must follow the instructions fully. Suppliers must complete their PQQ document set before the deadline as set out in this notice. Suppliers must comply with all of the requests within this OJEU notice and subsequent tender requirements or they may not be considered. The procurement will be run in accordance with Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘the Regulations’). The Trust intends only to be bound to the Regulations insofar as they apply to SOS Services. Further details are set out in the procurement documents. The Trust reserves the right not to award any or part of this contract, postpone or terminate the procurement process (or any part of it) or change the procedure used to procure the contract, at any time without liability on its part. No contract will be created between the Trust and any bidder until a contract is executed between the Trust and the successful Bidder. The Trust is not liable for any costs (including third party costs, fees or expenses) incurred by those expressing an interest in or bidding for this opportunity and no implied contract is created. Tenders and all supporting documentation must be priced in sterling and written in English. Any agreements entered into will be governed by English law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. This contract is for the benefit of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Brockley Hill, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 4LP.

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:

Please refer to the contact at 1.1) of this notice.

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