Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-05-07
Buyer: North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) (hosted by and acting through Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48460000 | 48600000 | 48780000 | 48800000
Estimated value: 9000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-06-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The below-listed Authorities are eligible to access the resulting framework — subject to NHS CPP approval:
All Ambulance Trusts in United Kingdom and any additional new NHS CPC members for the duration of the Agreement, plus any other NHS/Public Sector bodies located in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, subject to the approval of Authorities, including but not limited to Acute Trusts, Foundation Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Community Health Trusts, Special Health Authorities, Health Boards, NHS Commissioning Boards, Commissioning Support Units and other health organisations (Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), Health and Social Care Trusts (Northern Ireland), Community Health Councils, Local Health Boards, Social Enterprises, NHS Collaborative Procurement Hubs/Organisations, GP Practices, Primary Care Commissioners, Department of Health, Public Health England and Local Authorities (where Local Authorities are engaged in the provision or commissioning of health related services, for example (but not limited to) the fields of healthcare, social care, early years care and public health).
Listings of the entities eligible to utilise any resulting agreement(s), subject to the approval of NHS CPP can be found at:
Special Health Authorities: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthoritiesListing.aspx
Arms Length Bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arms-length-bodies/our-arms-length-bodies
NHS England: http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/d-com/ and other organisations involved in commissioning of primary care services via Clinical Commissioning Groups — CCGs supported by the Commissioning Support Units — CSU's which will be responsible for commissioning most aspects of NHS care (or equivalent body/bodies established pursuant to legislation enacted as a result of, or in connection with, the White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS published July 2010.
NHS Professional Regulator: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/healthregulators/Pages/professional-standards-Authorities.aspx
The Clinical Commissioning Board, Area Teams: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx and other organisations involved in commissioning and/or overseeing General Practitioner services and GP consortia and GP Practices and any other provider of primary medical services:
b) Commissioned by NHS England or other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing General Practitioner services, as described above.
NHS Wales (National Health Service for Wales) including but not limited to: Welsh Health Boards, Primary care services — GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, hospital services, and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.nhsdirect.wales.nhs.uk/localservices/localhealthboards/
NHS Scotland (National Health Service for Scotland) including but not limited to: NHS Boards, Hospitals, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, hospital services, and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.healthscotland.com/about/index.aspx
NHS Northern Ireland (National Health Service for Northern Ireland) including but not limited to: Health and Social Care Trusts, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, hospital services, social care services and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.hscni.net/
The 4 NHS collaborative procurement organisations; namely North of England NHS Commercial Procurement Collaborative, NHS London Procurement Partnership, NHS Commercial Solutions and East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub wish to establish a framework to provide an e-catalogue and requisitioning solution for use by the 4 NHS collaborative procurement organisations, their respective members and the wider NHS/public sector.
The framework to be established will provide a pricing management and e-catalogue tool, with optional requisitioning functionality to allow the management, sharing, control and use of complex framework pricing data. The solution will automate the use of catalogue data whilst also improving the quality of data and information to better inform procurement decision making.
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the In-tend eTendering portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home

Eligibility requirements: See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.