Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-05-11
Buyer: The Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs DAERA
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33000000 | 33100000 | 33140000: Medical consumables | 33141000: Disposable medical supplies | 33141300
Estimated value: 206000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-07-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Медицински консумативи, с изключение на химическите и хематологични консумативи, за еднократна употреба
Niet-chemische medische gebruiksgoederen voor eenmalig gebruik en verbruiksartikelen voor hematologie
DAERA is seeking to establish a contract for the supply and delivery of Brucellosis testing kits for blood sampling of cattle in Northern Ireland. Brucellosis is a significant zoonotic disease in Northern Ireland and has been successfully eradicated from the national cattle herd with Official Brucellosis Freedom status attained from the EU in 2015. Blood sampling of high risk animals is a statutory requirement in addition to approved surveillance sampling of the national herd to prove continued disease freedom. For this contract DAERA will appoint a maximum of three contractors ranked first, second and third.
DAERA is seeking to establish a contract for the supply and delivery of Brucellosis testing kits for blood sampling of cattle in Northern Ireland. Brucellosis is a significant zoonotic disease in Northern Ireland and has been successfully eradicated from the national cattle herd with Official Brucellosis Freedom status attained from the EU in 2015. Blood sampling of high risk animals is a statutory requirement in addition to approved surveillance sampling of the national herd to prove continued disease freedom. For this contract DAERA will appoint a maximum of three Contractors ranked first, second and third.
The contract is for a fixed period of 3 years with the option to extend for two further periods of 12 months each, unless it is otherwise terminated in accordance with the provisions of the conditions of contract. Submitted prices will be fixed for the whole first 3 year period and the price submitted Clause 4 in the commercial conditions of contract sets out the process for price increases.
The value in II.1.5) and II.2.6) are estimated values for the entire contract period including extensions. There is no no guarantee of work under this contract.
Contract monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on this contract will be managed as per the specification and regularly monitored (see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 — Contract Management — Procedures and Principles). Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a notice of unsatisfactory performance and this contract may be terminated. A central register of such Notices for supplies and services contracts will be maintained and published on the CPD website. Any contractor in receipt of a notice of unsatisfactory performance will be required to declare this in future tender submissions for a period of three years from the date of issue of the notice. It may also result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy. The authority expressly reserves the rights:
(i) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;
(ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition;
(iii) to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and
(iv) to award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.


Award value: 206000