Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-01-14
Buyer: Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Region: North Yorkshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72261000: Software support services
Estimated value: 250000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-02-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Software support services. Support Services to cover modules of the Silverlink Patient Care System to include amongst others: MPI, a&e, Inpatients, Inpatients Waiting Lists, Colposcopy, Maternity, Out patients, Out patients waiting list, Casenote management, Bed management, community, hl7 messaging both inbound and outbound, e-referral, patient demographic service (pds), child protection information system (cp-is) Integration.
Support services to cover- Post coding solution,Woodward Associates, Simplecode solution, third party software licensing, database and operating system, help-desk.
Support Services to cover modules of the Silverlink Patient Care System to include amongst others: MPI, a&e, Inpatients, Inpatients Waiting Lists, Colposcopy, Maternity, Out patients, Out patients waiting list, Casenote management, Bed management, community, hl7 messaging both inbound and outbound, e-referral, patient demographic service (pds), child protection information system (cp-is) Integration.
Support services to cover- Post coding solution,Woodward Associates, Simplecode solution,third party software licensing,database and operating system, help-desk.
Bids will be accepted from groupings of economic operators (consortia). In the event of a successful consortium bid, the contracting authority may specify that the consortia undertakes a particular legal form and/or require that a single consortium member takes primary liability or that each member undertakes joint and several liability irrespective of the legal form adopted. Where a subsidiary company is used, the ultimate parent company may be required to perform a guarantee in respect of the performance of the contract by the subsidiary before acceptance of a tender.
The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr
Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender. The Trust must renew its contract for Support services for its Patient Care System before the expiry of the current contract on 31.3.2016. Without contracted support services in place the Trust would be exposing patients to an unacceptable risk to their care and safety. Owing to the urgency of the situation time-limits have been reduced in line with

Eligibility requirements: The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender. A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists. Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so. Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority. See Trust documentation on given website address. See Trust documentation on given website address. See Trust documentation on given website address.
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