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Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 33100000
Estimated value: 538838.4 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: This procurement for ventilators is to provide Belfast Health and Social Care Trust with additional essential lifesaving equipment to support the immediate needs of the Nightingale Critical Care Unit in meeting the unforeseen, short-term needs to care for Covid-19 patients. This procurement is in the public interest and is required urgently to provide essential lifesaving equipment in these exceptional circumstances to enable the Critical Care Unit to meet the unforeseen, short-term public health risk for Covid-19 patient care surge requirements.


Winner: Maquet Gentinge Group
Award value: 538838.4
Number of bids: 1
Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘NSS’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products
Estimated value: 1431533 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 and any Integrated Joint Boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
Supply of Trientine to NHS Scotland. The authority has awarded this framework as a single supplier framework per line to a maximum of three (3) framework participants.
The estimated values referred to in section II.1.7) and section V.2.4) and within all lots covers the sixteen (16) month contract duration and the twenty-four (24) month extension period of the framework agreement.
Economic operators should approach the contracting authority in the first instance. However, the only formal remedy is to apply to the courts:
An economic operator that suffers or is at risk of suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.


Winner: Tillomed Laboratories ltd
Award value: 1431533
Number of bids: 3
Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Ministry of Defence
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 33100000
Estimated value: 665000 GBP

Technical requirements: The UK Ministry of Defence (‘MOD’) intends to place a new contract with Hazmatlink Ltd for the purchase of
 BioFire FilmArray 2.0 panels. The MOD intends to procure a total of 19 (nineteen) to ensure interoperability with other systems. 4 (four) panels will be required to enable MOD to test for COVID-19 in deployed locations as an urgent operational requirement, and 15 (fifteen) intended to be used for MOD near-term operations. The equipment will also be supported with training and servicing by the named supplier. The estimated value of this requirement is  GBP 665 000,00 ex VAT.
The UK Ministry of Defence (‘MOD’) intends to place a new contract with Hazmatlink Ltd for the purchase of BioFire FilmArray 2.0 panels. The MOD intends to procure a total of 19 (nineteen) to ensure interoperability with other systems. 4 (four) panels will be required to enable MOD to test for COVID-19 in deployed locations as an urgent operational requirement and 15 (fifteen) intended to be used for MOD near-term operations. The estimated value of this requirement is GBP 665 000.00 ex VAT.
It is considered that this contract can be placed with Hazmatlink Ltd using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice under Article 32 (2) (b) (ii) and 32(2)(c) of Directive 2014/24/EU (Regulations 32 (2)(b)(ii) and 32(2)(c) of the Public Contracts Regulation 2015) for technical reasons and reasons of extreme urgency. This is for the following reasons:
1) covering the full 19 panels: Hazmatlink Ltd are the only UK distributor of this product. This is the only product to fully meet the MOD requirement to be interoperable with the Biothreat syndromic panel, to be used with hazardous materials and to be classified as Aero Medical Equipment to enable transport by air; and
2) covering the four urgent panels: the procurement is considered as extreme urgency brought about by unforeseeable events, i.e. COVID-19 pandemic and the planned purchase has been brought forward to enable MOD to test for COVID-19 in deployed locations.


Winner: Hazmatlink Ltd
Award value: 665000
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Leeds and Yorkshire Housing Association
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2020-05-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
This tender seeks to identify an organisation who can work with Lyha’s internal IT Team to design, plan and transition all the on-premise applications over to Azure ensuring Microsoft’s Best Practice designs are applied.
The design of the replacement solution must fully maximise the value of Cloud Services by redesigning the current implementations to fully exploit the value of Microsoft’s IaaS, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Virtual Desktop as a Service (VDaaS) offerings.
- Produce a detailed design and transition plan for moving it all over to Microsoft Azure, ensuring it interoperates with Lyha’s existing Microsoft 365 tenancy.
- To work with Lyha’s IT Team to build the Azure tenancies and migrating the existing servers, applications, databases and storage over to Azure IaaS and PaaS in line with Microsoft Best Practice Design Standards. Note: The existing servers are all virtualised and in VMDK format, we envisage some of these will be moved over as is and then transformed to take greater advantage of Azure’s features.
- Ensuring the existing implementation of Azure AD meets the needs of Lyha and is in line with Best Practice Design Standards.
- Working with Lyha to design and implement appropriate and performant solutions for desktop and application delivery exploiting the use of Microsoft Virtual Desktops as required.
- Ensure the whole environment is resiliently provisioned and backed up on Azure, making best use of Microsoft Site Recovery Manager, Traffic Manager and Azure Backup. Note: Backup needs to extend to Microsoft 365.
Lyha will perform a financial analysis which will confirm that the annual contract value (as proposed by the supplier) does not exceed one third of their annual turnover. If it did this would be a fail.
2. the supplier must have referenceable experience of transition organisations from On-Premise / Hosted Infrastructures to Microsoft Azure;
5. you must be able to commercially commit to delivering the requirements of this tender within 3 months of the award of contract.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Leeds:-IT-services:-consulting%2C-software-development%2C-Internet-and-support./3DBEE3WFCC
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Clarion Housing Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 32410000 | 32415000 | 32420000 | 32421000 | 32422000
Estimated value: 8500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-05-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Clarion are seeking to appoint a single supplier to provide managed SD-WAN, firewall and SIP services connecting a number of remote and support offices located nationwide.
Clarion is seeking to appoint a single supplier to provide managed SD-WAN, firewall and SIP services connecting a number of remote and support offices located nationwide.
The contract will have regular reviews after 5 years and reviews on major events such as extensive hardware replacement.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Wide-area-network-services./78W923HHR2
To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/78W923HHR2
The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (as amended) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be started within 30 days beginning with the date when the aggrieved party first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. The Court may extend the time limit for starting proceedings where the Court considers that there is a good reason for doing so but not so as to permit proceedings to be started more than 3 months after that date. Where a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the contracting authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may only award damages or, where the contract award procedures have not been followed correctly, declare the contract to be ‘ineffective’.


Award value: 8500000
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: SRUC
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71220000 | 71541000: Construction project management services | 72224000: Project management consultancy services
Estimated value: 70000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-05-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: SRUC requires the services of a professional construction project manager (PM), preferably with experience in the FE/HE sector with emphasis on biological sciences, animal sciences and the environment. The role will be required to deliver the following key activities:
— provide sufficient resources with the appropriate level of skills and expertise to deliver the project in line with SRUC’s and its stakeholders’ objectives;
— undertake proactive risk management and maintain a risk register over the full life of the project (i.e. RIBA Stages 1 – 6);
— prepare a project execution plan and establish appropriate project controls including but not restricted to communication, meetings, reporting and progress updates, as required;
— in conjunction with the MDT principal designer, advise SRUC on requirements for compliance with all relevant legislation e.g. health and safety, equality;
— in partnership with the MDT, undertake NEC4 project management duties including compensation events, early warnings, programme acceptance and design acceptance processes;
— monitor the development and issue of the health and safety file including operation and maintenance manuals, and as installed information;
— coordinate and monitor activities required to conclude the building contract including handover and close out;
The contract will commence on or around 1 July 2020 and shall terminate on the completion of RIBA Stage 6 and/or the practical completion of the project, unless the contract is terminated earlier, in accordance with the provisions of the terms and conditions of contract as detailed in Schedule 8 of this tender.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=619915.
The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.
Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=619915

Eligibility requirements: Please see the invitation to tender for full details of this opportunity.

Award value: 70000
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Croydon Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2020-05-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Council is looking to undertake an open market tender to select a supplier who can supply, deploy and support a hosted, integrated IT solution to support the residential licensing services within Public Realm directorate for a contract term of up to 5 years. The required solution will provide functionality to administer all residential licensing for example Houses of multiple occupation (HMO and any Private Landlord selective licencing schemes that may be implemented within the Borough following any approval by Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Edinburgh College
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85312300 | 85312320
Estimated value: 300000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-05-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The authority is therefore seeking bids from those able to provide the specified student counselling services to the authority. The bidder must be capable of meeting the demands of a large College, with an extensive student population. The bidder must offer the counselling service over four College Campuses and offer virtual access if appropriate.
Counsellors must be on a register accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA). The registered counsellors must have met the accredited register’s professional standards to practise.
The authority is therefore seeking bids from those able to provide the specified student counselling services to the authority. The bidder must be capable of meeting the demands of a large College, with an extensive student population. The bidder must offer the counselling service over four College Campuses and offer virtual access if appropriate.
Counsellors must be on a register accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA). The registered counsellors must have met the accredited register’s professional standards to practise.
As detailed in the documents, all tenderers who meet the minimum selection criteria of three marks out of the available four for each selection question will be taken forward.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland website at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=619990
The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.
Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=619990

Eligibility requirements: See qualification and selection document.

Award value: 300000
Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85110000: Hospital and related services
Estimated value: 300000 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: This fit testing is essential to ensure staff in clinical areas treating COVID-19 patients have mandatory protection. This company has been selected as it has availability to provide high volumes of fit tests in the required timeframe. This procurement is in the public interest and is required urgently to support the immediate needs of the BHSCT in meeting the unforeseen, short-term Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust COVID-19 infection surge clinical care requirements.


Winner: Fit Test IE
Award value: 300000
Number of bids: 1
Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Education Authority NI
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71200000 | 71220000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 412780 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Appointment of a project manager led integrated consultant team for the delivery of the new Lisanally school, Armagh. approximate services value GBP 350 k. The integrated consultant team to provide full professional services for RIBA Plan of Work 2013 stages 0-7 to include project management, provision of architectural, quantity surveying, structural, services engineering, civil and structural services for delivery of the proposed School Enhancement Programme (SEP) project.
Appointment of a project manager led integrated consultant team for the delivery of the new Lisanally School, Armagh. Approximate services value GBP 350 k. The integrated consultant team to provide full professional services for RIBA Plan of Work 2013 stages 0-7 to include project management, provision of architectural, quantity surveying, structural, services engineering, civil and structural services for delivery of the proposed School Enhancement Programme (SEP) project.


Winner: RPP Architects Ltd
Award value: 412780
Number of bids: 19
Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-04-17
Buyer: Football Foundation
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71200000 | 71317210 | 71322100 | 71324000: Quantity surveying services | 71530000: Construction consultancy services
Estimated value: 12000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contracting authority has established a multiple provider ‘Manufacturer-led’ framework to deliver Artificial Grass Pitches (AGP). This procurement relates to consultants who have been awarded a place on the framework and who are required to work as part of an integrated team with the AGP suppliers to deliver sports playing surfaces to meet the requirements of the National Governing Bodies of Sport including Football, Hockey, Rugby Union and Rugby League. The contracting authority will act as funder for applicants who will come from primarily public sector. Two single provider frameworks have been established with one consultant in each lot.
Framework Management Consultant (FMC) to work as part of an integrated team delivering Artificial Grass Pitches (AGP). The sole appointed FMC will act in the role of "Employer's agent" and "Cost consultant" in supporting project delivery. The services provided will be "called-off" in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the framework agreement provided with the procurement documents.
The authority has awarded one place on this lot to the highest scoring tenderer that met the authority’s minimum requirements as set out in the procurement documents.
Specialist Testing Consultant (STC) to work as part of an integrated team delivering Artificial Grass Pitches (AGP). The solely appointed STC will undertake testing of the sub-structure at key stages throughout the project, in supporting project delivery. The services provided will be "called-off" in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the framework agreement provided with the procurement documents.
The authority has awarded one place on this lot to the highest scoring tenderer that met the authority’s minimum requirements as set out in the procurement documents.
In accordance with Regulations 92 to 104 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended), the contracting authority incorporated a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period starting from the date when the contract award was notified to bidders. Unsuccessful bidders were provided with information in the “Award decision notice” at the start of the standstill period including details of their bid in relation to the winning bid comprising the reasons for the decision, the characteristics and relative advantages of the successful tender, the score of the economic operators and the name of the economic operator to be awarded the contract. Tenderers have a right of appeal provided for within the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended). Any such proceedings must be brought in the High Court of England and Wales.


Winner: Robinson Low Francis
Award value: 12000000
Number of bids: 2