Prior information notice

This notice is for prior information only

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

I.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

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.2) Description

II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:

30/11/2021

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information

HTE is a central purchasing body who is able to carry out this tender exercise by virtue of its appointment as

an agent of UHCW. Notwithstanding HTE’s relationship with UHCW, it is HTE conducting this tender exercise

and will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. The bodies to whom the use of

this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the UK as defined in Regulation

2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as may be updated from time to time. In particular, the following

entities in the UK (particularly those of a health and/or social care nature) are envisaged as framework

agreement users: (1) All National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including but not limited to (i) acute

trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/pages/acutetrustlisting.aspx); (ii) health and care

trusts (as listedat: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx); (iii) mental health

trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx); (iv) clinical

commissioning groups (as listedat: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx); (v)

ambulance trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx (vi) area

teams (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx); (vii) special health

authorities (http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx); (viii) NHS

England; and (ix) clinical senates and strategic clinical networks. (2) All NHS bodies in Wales, including but

not limited to all (i) health boards; (ii) NHS trusts; (iii) the national delivery group; (iv) community health

councils; and (v) NHS Wales shared services partnership (as listed at

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure. (3) All NHS bodies in Northern Ireland (known as

Health & Social Care), including but not limited to:(i) health and social care trusts (as listed at:

http://online.hscni.net/?s=Trust (ii) health agencies (as listed at: http://online.hscni.net/?s=health+agencies

(iii) hospitals (as listed at: http://online.hscni.net/?s=hospitals; and (iv) the Health and Social Care Board. (4)

Social enterprises undertaking some or all of the previous service provider functions of contracting

authorities in relation to health and/or social care services (including charitable incorporated organisations,

cooperatives, industrial and provident societies and community interest companies listed on the Companies

House WebCheck service). (5) Ministerial departments and non-ministerial departments of central

government, non-departmental agencies and other public bodies, and public corporations (as listed at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations). (6) Devolved governmental and parliamentary organisations

within the UK, including but not limited to the Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, and Scottish public

bodies (as listed at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies), as well

as the Welsh Government, Welsh Assembly and Welsh unitary authorities (as listed at:

http://www.assembly.wales/en/abthome/role-of-assembly-how-itworks/Pages/governance-of-wales.aspx

(7) All local authorities (as listed at: http://local.direct.gov.uk/LDGRedirect/Start.do?mode=1) (8) The

Ministry of Defence (as detailed at:https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence).

This list includes each organisation’s successors and assigns, any equivalent organisations and associated

organisation created due to any organisational changes. This framework agreement will be open to any

bodies or organisations operating in the UK of a health, and/or social care nature or which have a similar

procurement need, and/or any UK based central government authority listed at Annex I of Directive

2014/24/

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

19/10/2021