Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-07-02
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: 24455000 | 33158300 | 33191000 | 39831200

Technical requirements: This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to advise Health Trust Europe will be holding a Supplier Day on 11.7.2019.
We are seeking organisations who can provide products and services covering (but not limited to) the following areas:
A maximum of 5 suppliers will be invited to the supplier day. These suppliers will be selected on a first come first served basis to prepare a presentation and Q&A. Further details on the agenda and allocated slot will be provided in due course.
HealthTrust Europe intends to award a multi-source framework for a minimum of 2 years with an option to extend for 2 further periods of 1 year + 1 year.
The purpose of the ‘Supplier Day’ to assist in developing the scope for this framework and for suppliers to demonstrate the range of products and services available in the current market. The supplier day is expected to assist in the preparation of the specification for this procurement of automated endoscopic reprocessors and consumables and ultraviolet cleaning cabinets for the public sector.
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: 1) All National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including but not limited to:
(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);
(v) ambulance trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.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, nondepartmental agencies and other public bodies, and public corporations (as listed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations);