Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-09-23
Buyer: Department of Health and Social Care
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products
Estimated value: 60000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-09-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: The contracting authority seeks to establish multiple contracts for the supply of additional pharmaceutical products for a UK stockpile of medicines for Covid-19 preparedness. The Department of Health and Social Care are managing the procurement on behalf of Public Health England.
The Department of Health and Social Care intend to run a procurement exercise to source additional pharmaceutical products for a UK stockpile of medicines for Covid-19 preparedness. The stockpile will cover additional intensive care unit medicines, antibiotics and end of life care medicines. The UK stockpile tender exercise will be performed through the online application Atamis procurement software. This tender will be following an open accelerated procedure with a 15-day completion time frame. The contractual period is proposed for 12 months with the option to extend annually for 2 further years. The UK tender is a stockpile tender where it is proposed that 30 products in 72 presentations will be tendered in 30 lots and to be purchased by Public Health England. Full evaluation criteria is detailed within the ITT documentation — failure to return requested information may result in submissions being rejected as non-compliant.
The contracts shall have the option to be extended by up to two 12-month periods. The volume of products to be procured during any extension period may be up to 50 % subject to the agreement of the supplier.
The Covid-19 outbreak has given rise to an urgent need for the authority to create a stockpile of medicines suitable for use in the Intensive Care Unit and End of Life environments because the Authority needs to be in a position to treat the population as required in case the Covid-19 outbreak escalates suddenly. This does not give the authority sufficient time to comply with the standard open procedure time scales for this procurement. The authority considers this to be a state of urgency which it has duly substantiated. Accordingly, the authority is using the Accelerated time limits permitted under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (regulation 27(5) for the open procedure) in respect of this procurement.
Responding to this notice: suppliers who do not respond to this procurement exercise in the following manner may be disqualified from the procurement process provided that the following conditions will operate in addition to and not replace any other conditions stated in the procurement documents which may result in disqualification.
1) Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information. This procurement exercise will be conducted on the eTendering portal at https: //health-family.force.com/s/Welcome 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://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome and click the link to register:
— you will shortly receive an email from the Salesforce platform asking you to finalise your registration;
(f) once you have expressed interest, it will move to ‘My Proposals and Quotes’, 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 Atamis Help-desk at +44 800 9956035 or support-health@atamis.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, supplier registration, as follows:
2.1) If not already registered, candidates must go to the following web page https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk and select ‘Register’ at the top right of the page. Key in details as requested to search for your company. If you do not have a D-U-N-SÂ® Number, click on the link at the right of the page to obtain a number from D&B. Candidates must obtain a Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) D-U-N-SÂ® Number to enable registration on Supplier Registration.
2.2) Once registration is complete you are able to create and update your registered 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 supplier registration, please contact the Helpdesk at:support@nqc.com or telephone +44(0)1614137982. Documentation availability candidates are advised that the contracting authority has taken measures to protect confidential information contained within the full suite of procurement documents by restricting access to those documents. The contracting authority will only provide access to the full suite of procurement documents to candidates who satisfy the selection criteria and complete the non-disclosure agreement provided via Atamis eTendering portal in accordance with the instructions provided by the contracting authority. The contract(s) is for the benefit of the contracting authority and NHS bodies along with any other non-NHS bodies which are necessary for the delivery of services or goods to NHS bodies, local authorities, other government departments or non-departmental public bodies charged with the delivery of healthcare or health related services in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories including, without limitation, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and Scottish Ministers.


Award value: 60000000