Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-12-24
Buyer: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (‘UHCW’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 18300000 | 33000000 | 33140000: Medical consumables | 33190000

Technical requirements: This prior information notice (PIN) is to advise that Health Trust Europe will be holding a supplier engagement day to assist in the strategic direction in the preparation of the specification for the procurement of venous thrombosis embolism (VTE) prevention systems and consumables.
Due to venue constraints, the number of companies attending will be limited. Companies will be selected at random and the number of attendees per company will be limited to 1. Further details on the agenda and allocated slot will be provided in due course. Interested suppliers must email Ranjit.singh@HTEPG.com no later than 10.1.2020.
To reduce the risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) formation on hospitalised patients with reduced mobility.
HTE is a central purchasing body who is able to carry out this tender exercise by virtue of its appointment as an agent of UHCW. Notwithstanding HTE's relationship with UHCW, it is HTE conducting this tender exercise and will exercise and will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders.
The bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the UK as defined in Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as may be updated from time to time. In particular, the following entities in the UK (particularly those of a health and/or social care nature) are envisaged as framework agreement users:
(ii) health and care trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx);
(iii) mental health trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx);
(iv) clinical commissioning groups (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx);
(vii) special health authorities (http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx);
(v) NHS Wales shared services partnership (as listed at http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure).
3) All NHS bodies in Northern Ireland (known as Health and Social Care), including but not limited to:
4) Social enterprises undertaking some or all of the previous service provider functions of contracting authorities in relation to health and/or social care services (including charitable incorporated organisations, cooperatives, industrial and provident societies and community interest companies listed on the companies House WebCheck service);
5) Ministerial departments and non-ministerial departments of central government, non-departmental agencies and other public bodies and public corporations (as listed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations);
6) Devolved governmental and parliamentary organisations within the UK, including but not limited to the  Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament and Scottish public bodies (as listed at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies), as well as the Welsh Government, Welsh Assembly and Welsh unitary authorities (as listed at: http://www.assembly.wales/en/abthome/role-of-assembly-how-it-works/Pages/governance-ofwales.aspx);
8) The Ministry of Defence (as detailed at:https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-ofdefence).