Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-17
Buyer: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (‘UHCW’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33140000: Medical consumables | 33181000
Submission deadline: 2017-09-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Supply of hemofiltration equipment and consumables, including installation and maintenance of the equipment.
The duration of the Framework Agreement will be 4 years maximum, 2 years initially period with the option to extend for up to 48 months.
Supply of hemofiltration equipment and consumables, including installation and maintenance of the equipment.
Terms and conditions / activity based income (ABI) The terms and conditions of this framework agreement and any resulting call-off contract is appended to the ITT. These terms include provisions requiring the payment by the supplier of an ABI management charge in consideration of the award of this framework agreement, the management and administration by HTE of the overall contract structure and associated documentation, as well as the requirement to submit regular management information to HTE. Submission of expressions of interest and procurement information. This exercise will be conducted on the HTE Bravo portal. Candidates wishing to be considered must register expressions of interest as follows: Register onthe HTE portal at https://healthtrusteurope.bravosolution.co.uk . Login to the portal with username/password. Click the SQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers link. These are the SQs/ITTs open to any registered supplier. Click on the relevant SQ/ ITT to access the content. Click the Express Interest button at the top of the page. This will move the SQ/ITT into your My SQs/My ITTs page. You can access any attachments by clicking Buyer Attachments in the SQ/ITT Details box. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the SQ/ITT. Submit your reply using the Submit Response button at the top of the page. If you require any further advice, contact the Bravo e-Tendering Help Desk at help@bravosolution.co.uk . Sid4Gov HTE utilises the sid4govsupplier information database. Candidates should register on sid4gov athttps://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register and submit their sid4gov company profile for publication on the database. Candidates already registered on sid4gov must ensure information is up to date. Where access to sid4gov is unavailable, please contact the sid4gov helpdesk at sid4gov@gps.gsi.gov.uk . Please note that sid4gov does not pre-populate any fields of the SQ on HTE's Bravo portal.Candidates must complete the Qualification & Technical Envelopes of the SQ in Bravo in full.
Supply of hemofiltration equipment and consumables, including installation and maintenance of the equipment.
Terms and conditions / activity based income (ABI) The terms and conditions of this framework agreement and any resulting call-off contract is appended to the ITT. These terms include provisions requiring the payment by the supplier of an ABI management charge in consideration of the award of this framework agreement, the management and administration by HTE of the overall contract structure and associated documentation, as well as the requirement to submit regular management information to HTE. Submission of expressions of interest and procurement information. This exercise will be conducted on the HTE Bravo portal. Candidates wishing to be considered must register expressions of interest as follows: Register onthe HTE portal at https://healthtrusteurope.bravosolution.co.uk Login to the portal with username/password. Click the SQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers link. These are the SQs/ITTs open to any registered supplier. Click on the relevant SQ/ ITT to access the content. Click the Express Interest button at the top of the page. This will move the SQ/ITT into your My SQs/My ITTs page. You can access any attachments by clicking Buyer Attachments in the SQ/ITT Details box. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the SQ/ITT. Submit your reply using the Submit Response button at the top of the page. If you require any further advice, contact the Bravo e-Tendering Help Desk at help@bravosolution.co.uk . Sid4Gov HTE utilises the sid4govsupplier information database. Candidates should register on sid4gov athttps://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register and submit their sid4gov company profile for publication on the database. Candidates already registered on sid4gov must ensure information is up to date. Where access to sid4gov is unavailable, please contact the sid4gov helpdesk at sid4gov@gps.gsi.gov.uk . Please note that sid4gov does not pre-populate any fields of the SQ on HTE's Bravo portal.Candidates must complete the Qualification & Technical Envelopes of the SQ in Bravo in full.
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 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 (i) acute trusts (as listed at:http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/pages/acutetrustlisting.aspx); (ii) health and care trusts (as listed at:http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx); (iii) mentalhealth 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) ambulancetrusts (as listed at:http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx (vi) area teams (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx );(vii) special health authorities(http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx ); (viii) NHS England; and (ix) clinical senates and strategic clinical networks. (2) All NHS bodies in Wales, including but not limited to all (i) health boards; (ii) NHS trusts; (iii)the national delivery group; (iv) community health councils; and (v) NHS Wales shared services partnership (as listed athttp://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure. (3) All NHS bodies in NorthernIreland (known as Health & Social Care), including but not limited to:(i) health and social care trusts (as listed at: http://online.hscni.net/?s=Trust (ii) health agencies (aslisted at: http://online.hscni.net/?s=health+agencies (iii) hospitals (as listed at: http://online.hscni.net/?s=hospitals; and (iv) the Health and Social Care Board. (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 ). (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-itworks/Pages/governance-of-wales.aspx (7) All local authorities (as listed at: http://local.direct.gov.uk/LDGRedirect/Start.do?mode=1) (8) The Ministry of Defence(as detailed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence ).This list includes each organisation's successors and assigns, any equivalent organisations and associated organisation created due to any organisational changes.This framework agreement will be open to any bodies or organisations operating in the UK of a health, and/or social care nature or which have a similar procurement need, and/or any UK based central government authority listed at Annex I of Directive 2014/24/EU, in respect of any goods or services to any of the above listed organisation.