Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-03-13
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘NSS’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85141000: Services provided by medical personnel | 85150000: Medical imaging services
Estimated value: 28000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-04-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This framework agreement is for the provision of radiology reporting services by suitably qualified radiologists and radiographers to all NHS Scotland Health Boards. The primary service will be the reporting of radiology examinations which cannot be accommodated by staff of the participating authorities and can be carried out remotely or onsite. The anticipated lot structure follows.
This lot is for routine and urgent radiology reporting carried out onsite by suitably qualified radiographers.
This lot is for routine and urgent radiology reporting carried out remotely by suitably qualified radiographers.
This lot will be for the provision of radiology reporting services by suitably qualified radiologists.
This lot is for out of hours emergency radiology reporting carried out remotely by suitably qualified Radiologists overnight or during Saturday/Sunday day times.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
All candidates will be required to provide statement of accounts or extracts relating to their for the previous 3 years. Where any are risks identified by the authority as part of the due diligence carried out on the above information the Authority may require bidders to provide additional information to demonstrate financial standing. Additional information can include but not be limited to:
Bidders who cannot provide suitable evidence of a secure financial standing may be excluded from the procurement.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of GBP 1 000 000 for the last 3 years.
Bidders will be required to provide examples of works carried out in the past 5 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the work as described in part II.2.4- of the OJEU contract notice or the relevant section of the site notice.
It is a mandatory requirement for each potential framework participant (or any of its sub contractors) to operate a quality management system (ISO9001:2015 or equivalent) and Information Security Management System (ISO27001:2017 or equivalent).
It is a mandatory requirement for each potential framework participant (or any of its sub contractors) to only use practitioners who meet the minimum English language requirements
It is a mandatory requirement for each potential framework participant (or any of its sub contractors) to be able to demonstrate their previous experience of providing a service similar to the one required in this framework agreement.
It is a mandatory requirement for each potential framework participant (or any of its sub contractors) to fully comply with the General Data Protection Regulations and the Data Protection Act.
It is a mandatory requirement for each potential framework participant (or any of its sub contractors) to have in place the insurances listed in the ITT and to ensure that all practitioners have in place personal professional indemnity insurance of GBP 5 000 000.

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

Award value: 28000000