Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-01-20
Buyer: Barts Health NHS Trust
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 18100000 | 32410000 | 39291000 | 39518000 | 55520000
Estimated value: 400000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-02-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Barts Health NHS Trust is a major provider of hospital services for London and nationally for a wide variety of specialised and tertiary services. It is the largest NHS Trust in England and operates from five hospitals in east London. In 2014/15 it had an annual turnover of £1.3 billion and employs 15,000 staff.
The Trust is seeking expressions of interest to provide its Soft Facilities Management services across all its sites. Delivery of the following services:
Services to be delivered in accordance with specified standards, and, managed under a formal performance regime. The requirement will include continuous service improvement, by the provider and the achievement of regular efficiency gains both in terms of cost and performance.
There will be a Bidders briefing session on Monday, 1.2.2016 to set the scene for the project and allow Bidders to better understand the opportunities extending from the project. Further information on how to RSVP is contained within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Section II.1.2 (Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance) — The Trust estate based predominately across five sites and various other community sites as more particularly set out in the memorandum of information and any other sites and facilities acquired by the Trust during the duration of the contract.
The contract between the Trust and the service provider will be for an initial term of 7 years with an option to extend (exercisable during the initial term) for a further 3 years.
Details will be set out in the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue and/or the contractual documentation and will be developed throughout the competitive dialogue procedure.
Expressions of interest in response to this contract notice may be submitted by a single bidder or a consortium. The Trust reserves the right to require groupings of contractors to take a particular legal form or to require a single contractor to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
In accordance with Article 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and as set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire which is available from the address in section I.1.
In accordance with Articles 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and as set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire which is available from the address in section I.1.
Section IV.3.4 (Time-limit for requests to participate) — Expressions of interest must be by way of completion and return of the pre-qualification questionnaire (in accordance with the requirements set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire) by the date and time specified in Section IV.3.4..Expressions of interest must be received before the deadline. Bidders are encouraged to submit their submissions well in advance of the stated date and time in order to avoid such issues as technical difficulties with the electronic system that may be due to the high volumes of traffic attempting to submit applications on the same date at the same time. Expressions of interest delivered after the date and time specified or to a different address, electronically or otherwise, will not be considered. . Should you experience any problems with the portal then please contact 0845 293 0459 (lines open from  8:30 am to 17:30 pm Monday to Friday, excluding English public holidays).The Trust reserves the right not to award the opportunity or to award only part (or a different arrangement) of the opportunity described in this contract notice.

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In accordance with Article 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and as set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire which is available from the address in section I.1.
As set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire.
In accordance with Articles 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and as set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire which is available from the address in section I.1. As set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire.
In accordance with Articles 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and as set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire which is available from the address in section I.1.