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Contract Award Notice

Funeral Services and Transportation of Bodies

  • First published: 18 October 2022
  • Last modified: 18 October 2022

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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-h6vhtk-0338fd
Published by:
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Authority ID:
AA33891
Publication date:
18 October 2022
Deadline date:
-
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust invites competitive tenders for the provision of Funeral Services and Transportation of Bodies Contract. This will be split into two Lots, Lot 1 Funeral Services and Lot 2 Transportation of Bodies.

The Trust co-ordinates and pays for Funeral arrangements for deceased patients who have no relatives to pay the cost of the funeral, and for funerals of babies, non-viable foetuses and still births. The Trust requires the relevant Contractor in connection with the Trust to co-ordinate and provide the necessary services to facilitate the arrangements.

The Tender documents are attached. Please use Document 2 to submit your responses to the questions or you can upload your own document as long as the responses to the questions are clearly numbered.

Full notice text

Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Section I: Contracting entity

I.1) Name and addresses

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

N/A

Royal Stoke University Hospital, Newcastle Road

Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire

ST4 6QG

UK

Contact person: Emma Viola

Telephone: +44 1902695477

E-mail: emma.viola@nhs.net

NUTS: UKG39

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk/

Address of the buyer profile: https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/13355

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

Funeral Services and Transportation of Bodies

Reference number: T1095

II.1.2) Main CPV code

98371000

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust invites competitive tenders for the provision of Funeral Services and Transportation of Bodies Contract. This will be split into two Lots, Lot 1 Funeral Services and Lot 2 Transportation of Bodies.

The Trust co-ordinates and pays for Funeral arrangements for deceased patients who have no relatives to pay the cost of the funeral, and for funerals of babies, non-viable foetuses and still births. The Trust requires the relevant Contractor in connection with the Trust to co-ordinate and provide the necessary services to facilitate the arrangements.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT: 267 830.00  GBP

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

33940000

98370000

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKG39


Main site or place of performance:

New Cross Hospital Wolverhampton

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust invites competitive tenders for the provision of Funeral Services and Transportation of Bodies Contract. This will be split into two Lots, Lot 1 Funeral Services and Lot 2 Transportation of Bodies.

The Trust co-ordinates and pays for Funeral arrangements for deceased patients who have no relatives to pay the cost of the funeral, and for funerals of babies, non-viable foetuses and still births. The Trust requires the relevant Contractor in connection with the Trust to co-ordinate and provide the necessary services to facilitate the arrangements.

The Tender documents are attached. Please use Document 2 to submit your responses to the questions or you can upload your own document as long as the responses to the questions are clearly numbered.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion: Quality Funeral Services / Weighting: 58.4

Quality criterion: Quality TGransportation of Bodies / Weighting: 60

Quality criterion: Price Funeral Services / Weighting: 40

Quality criterion: Price transportation of Bodies / Weighting: 17.7

Price / Weighting:  40

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

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

The University Hospitals of the North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) provides Procurement services to The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT). This contract is to provide a service to RWT in the Wolverhampton area, not to UHNM.

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S:

2022/S 000-012895

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: 1

Title: Funeral Services and Transportation of Bodies

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

V.2 Award of contract

V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

13/10/2022

V.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 2

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Central England Co-operative

Central England Co-operative

Hermes Road

Lichfield

WS13 6RH

UK

E-mail: michael.taaffe@centralengland.coop

NUTS: UKG38

The contractor is an SME: No

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: : 267 830.00  GBP

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

University Hospital North Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent

St4 6QG

UK

VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

University Hospital North Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6QG

UK

VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

University Hospital North Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 6QG

UK

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

17/10/2022

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
33940000 Cadaver transport and storage equipment and supplies Post-mortem and mortuary equipment and supplies
98370000 Funeral and related services Miscellaneous services
98371000 Funeral services Funeral and related services

Delivery locations

ID Description
100 UK - All

Alert region restrictions

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

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

Main contact:
emma.viola@nhs.net
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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