Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-19
Buyer: The Secretary of State for Health acting as part of the Crown through the Commercial Medicines Unit (part of the Department of Health)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products | 33690000
Estimated value: 210000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-08-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Period of framework agreement: Dates detailed below with options to extend up to a maximum period of 36 months
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: The framework agreement is intended for use by the Department of Health, Public Health England and the NHS in England. The framework may also be used by private sector contractors and agents working on behalf of the above. Please refer to Document 10 in the Invitation To Offer Documents for the list of Purchasing Points.
Period of framework agreement: Dates detailed below with options to extend up to a maximum period of 36 months
The procurement is sub-divided into Lots. For this procurement process there are three Lots made up of the following geographic buying groups:
A detailed description of the goods and/or services that an Offeror will be required to supply for a Lot in which it has been successful is set out in the Offer Schedule (Document 06a(ii) and the Specification (Document No. 05).
Each National Product Code product Description listed in the Offer Schedule (Document No.06a(ii)), shall be a ‘Product’ for the purposes of this Invitation to Offer.
For each Product comprised in this offer schedule Offerors have the opportunity to bid for all (or any) of the three (3) Lots specified in paragraph 8.1 of Document No. 02 of the Invitation to Offer.
To ensure a diverse range of suppliers, in respect of each Product listed in the CM/PHG/12/5379/00 — Offer Schedule (Document No 06a(ii)) there is a restriction on the number of Lots that an Offeror can be awarded as follows:
Where 3 or more compliant offers that meet the qualitative criteria are received, a maximum of 1 Lot may be awarded to 1 supplier;
Where only 2 compliant offers that meet the qualitative criteria are received, a maximum of 2 Lots maybe awarded to 1 supplier;
Where only 1 compliant offer that meets the qualitative criteria is received, a maximum of all 3 Lots may be awarded to 1 supplier.
In respect of each Product in each Lot, unless otherwise notified, this procurement will establish a single supplier framework arrangement.
Information regarding lots is contained within the Invitation To Offer — please refer to Document No. 02.
Refer to the Price and Payment clauses contained within the Invitation To Offer, Document no.3, Conditions of Contract.
No special legal form is required but, if a contract is awarded to a consortium of economic operators, the members of that consortium may be required to form a legal entity before entering into a Framework Agreement and may be required to provide parent company or directors' guarantees or, if not required to form a legal entity, members of a consortium may be required to accept joint and several liability both to the Contracting Authority under the Framework Agreement and to other contracting authorities awarding contracts under the Framework Agreement.

Eligibility requirements: Responding To This Notice; Any supplier may be disqualified who does not respond to the following in the requisite manner: 1) Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information This procurement exercise will be conducted on the eTendering portal at www.cmu.bravosolution.co.uk. Candidates wishing to be considered for this procurement exercise must register, and provide additional procurement specific information (if requested), through the eTendering portal as follows: 1.1) If not already registered, Candidates should register on the eTendering portal at https://www.cmu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register: — accept the terms and conditions and click continue, — enter your correct business and user details, — note the username you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete, — you will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure). 1.2) Once registered, candidates must express interest as follows: a. login to the eTendering portal; b. select ‘Response to ITT’; c. select ‘ITTs Open To All Suppliers’; d. access listing related to this procurement NHS Pharmaceuticals 2016_2 and view details; e. click on ‘Express interest’ button at the top of the page. f. Once you have expressed interest, the ITT will move to ‘My ITTs’, where you can download additional documentation (if required), and construct your reply as instructed. You must then publish your reply using the ‘Publish’ button. 1.3) For any support in registering on the portal or submitting your expression of interest please contact the eTendering Help-desk at +44 800 368 4850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk. 2) General supplier information. To manage and assess supplier information the Contracting Authority requests candidates provide their company profile in the Governments supplier information database, sid4gov, as follows: 2.1) If not already registered, Candidates must go to the following web page https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ and select ‘Register for sid4gov’ at the bottom of the page. Key in details as requested to search for your company. If you do not have a D-U-N-S® Number, click on the link at the right of the page to obtain a number from D&B. Candidates must obtain a Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) D-U-N-S® Number to enable registration on sid4gov. 2.2) Once registration is complete you are able to create and update your sid4gov company profile. Candidates should ensure all the mandatory fields of their sid4gov profile are completed and up to date for each procurement exercise. D&B data will be supplied automatically by D&B. 2.3) For further help or information concerning sid4gov, please contact the sid4gov Helpdesk at: support@nqc.com or telephone +44 (0) 845 299 2994.