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

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

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust.

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)

The Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust is issuing this Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) in connection with the competitive procurement of a Chemotherapy E-Prescribing system.

The Trust is seeking to procure an integrated chemotherapy EPMA that uses a single common database to manage all chemotherapy workflows and records all transactions performed, including electronic prescriptions.

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

See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

III.1.2)

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

See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

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

Consortium bids are acceptable but the authority may require the consortium to incorporate a special purpose vehicle and provide parent company guarantees.

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

See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

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

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

There is a national requirement to introduce Chemo ePrescribing by 15.3.2016.

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

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

CPC 00947

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

This procurement exercise will be conducted on the In-tend eTendering portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home

Candidates wishing to be considered for this agreement must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through this portal.

To register interest:

1) Go to ‘Current Tender Opportunities’ from the eTendering portal login page: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home

This will provide you with a full list of current tender opportunities. For the project you are interested in click on ‘View Details’ in the initial project view.

2) If you are not a registered user of In-tend follow the ‘Register’ tab otherwise follow the ‘Login’ link and enter email address and password.

3) From this tender management screen you will be presented will a fuller overview of the project and if interested you are able to ‘Express Interest’.

‘Expressing interest’ is not responding to the project, you will now have to complete the questionnaire and submit your response within the timescales indicated.

4) Go to the ‘Tenders’ section and click on ‘My Tenders’, click on ‘View Details’ within the project you are interested and you will now be able access attached documents and questionnaires that require completing as part of your response. Any sections indicated in red are awaiting your completion.

Further guidance on how to access and respond to the opportunity is available in the ‘Guidance for Suppliers’ tab which is available for downloading from the main portal login page: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/BuyerProfiles

For any support in submitting your response please contact In-tend Support team at support@in-tend.co.uk (or call +44 8455578079 / 1144070065.

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:

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar standstill period at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers, in accordance with Regulation 87 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

Any tenderer wishing to appeal the decision to award the contract, or after the award of the contract appeal the award of the contract, shall have the rights set out in Part 3 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice