Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
UK
Contact person: Jane Garnett
E-mail: jane.garnett@suffolk.nhs.uk
NUTS: UKH14
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.ipswichhospital.nhs.uk/
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Renal Dialysis Services.
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85111900
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust are looking to identify a preferred partner to provide Renal Dialysis Services. The scope of the Services includes In-Centre Haemodialysis taking place in main or satellite dialysis units (ICHD), Peritoneal dialysis (PD), Home Haemodialysis (HHD) and Intermittent Haemodialysis to treat acute kidney injury. The Trust are looking to establish a contract for a period of 5 years and a potential single extension for a period of 3 years. The service may be considered to consist of 3 component parts: facilities (including but not exclusive to the dialysis environment, equipment and consumables for dialysis and support services to allow dialysis to take place and ensure the quality of the service including technical support and IT), nursing (including haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis nurses, ward staff and nurse specialists) and clinical decision-making including decisions about need for (acute and chronic), modality and dialysis prescriptions.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
25 600 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
33140000
33190000
33692800
33181000
33181100
33181200
33181300
33181400
33181500
33181510
33181520
33192000
33690000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKH14
Main site or place of performance:
The services will be undertaken on the main Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust site, a satellite site at Aldeburgh Hospital and within individual patient homes where appropriate.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Trust is carrying out this procurement pursuant to EU Directive 2014/24/EU implemented into UK Law via the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI2015/102) with effect from 26.2.2015. The Services this notice relate fall within the light touch regime set out in Regulations 74 to 76 and Schedule 3 to the Regulations. Neither the use of the term Invitation to Tender nor any other indication shall be taken to mean the Trust intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the light touch regime. The Trust aims to use an Open type procedure to identify and define a solution which best addresses the requirements, as described in the Invitation to Tender. The estimated value of the entire project is between 2 600 000 GBP million and 3 200 000 GBP per annum across 8 years (5 years plus 3 years extension); which translates to an estimation of between 20 800 000 GBP and 25 600 000 GBP across 8 years.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 96
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
Full details of the Trust's requirements are set out in the documentation which is available by registering for free at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.4) Objective rules and criteria for participation
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
III.2.2) Contract performance conditions
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.11) Main features of the award procedure:
The Trust are following an Open process, bidders will be required to provide information regarding their eligibility to bid for these Services and respond to questions which evaluate a Bidder's ability to deliver the Specifications and determine the Most Economically Advantageous Tenders (MEAT) based on a price/quality ratio, all criteria are stated in the procurement documents. Further details can be found in documentation at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2016/S 143-258488
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
11/01/2017
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
The contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award contract/s and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award contract/s in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in participating in this procurement process, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust
Ipswich
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
The contracting authority will incorporate a standstill period from the date when information on the award of the contract/s is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. Part 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provides for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are risk of harm by a breach of the Regulations to take action in the High Court (England and Wales). Any such action must be brought within the applicable limitation periods.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
15/11/2016