Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-25
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS")
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products | 85312200
Estimated value: 10400000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-06-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This Framework Agreement is for the provision of a Homecare Delivery Service for delivery of medicines to patients in their homes or other agreed designated delivery points.
The service is divided into two (2) Lots covering Low-tech and Mid-tech Homecare Delivery Services. It includes the dispensing of prescriptions, delivery of medication and the supply of ancillary products, provision of nurse support for injection training and supply of and removal of sharps containers as required.
This tender is for approximately 12 000 patients across NHS Scotland initially, resulting in approximately 53 000 deliveries pa. The estimated value for the medicines to be delivered under this Framework Agreement is 60M (GBP) pa.
The Framework Agreement will be awarded in two (2) Lots, with each Lot awarded as a multi-supplier unranked framework. It is envisaged that a maximum of eight (8) Framework Participants will be appointed to each Lot.
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.
Lot 2 is for Mid-Tech Homecare Delivery Service to deliver a range of injectable medicines, the majority of which are in pre-filled syringes / pens.
The medicines covered are etanercept, methotrexate, erythropoietin stimulating agents, glatiramer acetate, adalimumab, epoprostenol and iloprost.
The service includes the dispensing of prescriptions, delivery of the medication whilst maintaining all required storage conditions, delivery of ancillary products as required, nurse support for injection training as required and to supply and remove sharps containers.
This Lot will cover approximately 8 600 patients across NHS Scotland initially, resulting in approximately 45 000 deliveries per annum. The number of patients and deliveries will vary through the duration of the Framework Agreement.
The Lot will be awarded as an unranked multi-supplier framework to an envisaged maximum of eight (8) Framework Participants.
Additional information is available within the tender documentation, and in particular the tender specification.
The Authority is entitled at its sole discretion to extend the Framework Agreement by up to a further period of twelve (12) months by giving a minimum of three (3) months written notice of such extension.
The estimated value range referred to in Sections II.I.5 and II.2.6 covers the thirty six (36) months initial duration and the full twelve (12) month extension option.
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.
Lot 1 is for a Low-Tech Homecare Delivery Service to deliver a range of oral medicines (for HIV, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Oncology).

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any situation referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Award value: 10400000