Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2019-06-03
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, Agencies/Misc, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: Leidos Supply Ltd intends to award a single source framework for the provision of Pfizer Branded Pharmaceutical Products for the UK Ministry of Defence. The agreement will be for the duration of 3 years.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 32(2)(b)(iii) of Directive 2014/24/EC of the European Parliament (Regulation 32(2)(b) of Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This is because the manufacturer has the exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights in respect to these products.
The products covered by this framework are manufactured solely by Pfizer Limited, available to contract via. Pfizer Limited and distributed through Alliance Healthcare, who are Pfizer Limited’s only authorised distributor.
Leidos Supply Ltd intends to award a single source framework for the provision of Pfizer Branded Pharmaceutical Products for the UK Ministry of Defence. The agreement will be for the duration of 3 years.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 32(2)(b)(iii) of Directive 2014/24/EC of the European Parliament (Regulation 32(2)(b) of Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Leidos Supply Ltd intends to award a single source framework for the provision of Pfizer Branded Pharmaceutical Products for the UK Ministry of Defence. The agreement will be for the duration of 3 years.
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 32(2)(b)(iii) of Directive 2014/24/EC of the European Parliament (Regulation 32(2)(b) of Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This is because the manufacturer has the exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights in respect to these products.
The products covered by this framework are manufactured solely by Pfizer Limited, available to contract via. Pfizer Limited and distributed through Alliance Healthcare, who are Pfizer Limited’s only authorised distributor.
The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a Security Aspects Letter), the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies, or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification.
Advertising Regime OJEU: This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk GO Reference: GO-2019529-DCB-14939669