Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-09-28
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘the Authority’)
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products | 85312200
Estimated value: 1540000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-10-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The provision of a Home Delivery Service on behalf of NHS Scotland for the delivery of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Medicines to patient homes across NHS Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit and Scottish Adult Congenital Cardiac Service.
All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and any Integrated Joint Boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
This Framework Agreement is for the provision of a Home Delivery Service to deliver pulmonary arterial hypertension medicines to patients. This includes the dispensing and delivery of the prescribed medicines along with ancillary products, if required, to patients in their homes or other agreed designated delivery points, and to provide removal of sharps containers as detailed within the specification contained within the tender documentation.
This tender is for approximately 430 patients across NHS Scotland resulting in approximately 2,500 deliveries per annum. The number of patients and deliveries will vary through the duration of the framework agreement.
The framework agreement will be awarded as a ranked multi-supplier framework to a maximum of six (6) suppliers. Additional information is available in the tender documentation.
The Authority is entitled at its sole discretion to extend the Framework Agreement by up to a further two (2) periods of up to twelve (12) months each by giving a minimum of three (3) months written notice of such extension.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any situation referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
The turnover of the economic operator in respect of its most recent full financial year must have been equal to or more than 8 000 000 (GBP).
(1) an extract from its audited accounts in respect of its most recent full financial year stating the turnover of the economic operator in respect of such financial year, such extract certified on its face by a solicitor or a chartered accountant as being a true copy of the original document, or
(2) a statement certified by the economic operator's auditors confirming the turnover of the economic operator in respect of its most recent full financial year.
(a) All of the goods supplied under the framework agreement must be stored in and distributed from a site holding an MHRA Wholesaler Dealers Authorisation which covers POM medicines.
(b) All of the dispensed Goods supplied under the framework agreement will be dispensed in a pharmacy which at the time of dispensing is registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
(c) All of the Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician staff used to service this framework agreement will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
(d) The successful Framework Participant and any sub-contractor(s) must possess valid certification of BS EN ISO 9001 or equivalent.
(e) All of the direct patient contact will be undertaken by staff, including all sub-contractors and couriers that, at the point of service provision, have Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme clearance in accordance with the prevailing regulations.

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any situation referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Award value: 1540000