Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-19
Buyer: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Country: UK
Region: West Yorkshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Submission deadline: 2016-04-05
Award criteria: Ability to Deliver and Manage the Service, Service Provision, Communication and Engagement, Implementation and Exit Plan, Training and Education, Innovation, Cost

Technical requirements: Ability to Deliver and Manage the Service
Service Provision
Communication and Engagement
Implementation and Exit Plan
Training and Education
Innovation
Cost
Acute Independent Sector Providers, split into 12 lots for for the provision of a clinical capacity for the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
For the Provision of Independent Sector Clinical Services for Plastic and Paediatric Plastic Surgery.
For the Provision of Independent Sector Clinical Services for General Surgery and Colorectal Surgery Inpatient, Day Case and Outpatient Services.
For the Provision of Independent Sector Clinical Acute Services for Endoscopy Diagnostic Intervention Service.
For the Provision of Independent Sector Clinical Acute Services for Interventional Radiology this will include Neuro, Vascular and Non-Vascular Interventions.
For the Provision of Independent Sector Clinical Acute Services for Radiology CT this will include MSK and General CT (Including Neuro, Vascular, Oncology, Gynae, Chest and Small Bowel Imaging).
For the Provision of Independent Sector Clinical Acute Services for Diagnostic Ultrasound this will include MSK, General Ultrasound, Paediatrics and Obstetrics.
For the Provision of Independent Sector Clinical Acute Services for Radiology Diagnostic and Therapeutic MSK Ultrasound Guided Injection Service.

Eligibility requirements: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations; (b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding up or administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations; (c) has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct; (d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate; (e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information; (h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA; (i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively; (j) has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities; (k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering. Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available. Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past 3 years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: — where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, — where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator; (c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work; (d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities; (e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate; (k) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards. As an alternative to providing the information required under Section 2 — Conditions for Participation, you can confirm that you have registered on NHS-Sid4Health and that the Full Qualification Information is lodged in that system. You must, however, verify that all the information that you have entered onto NHS-Sid4Health fully answers all of the specific requirements outlined. Any information not available on the database MUST be provided separately with your Expression of Interest (ie by letter, facsimile or email) by the closing date specified in this advertisement in order for your application to be considered.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past 3 years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: — where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, — where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator; (c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work; (d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities; (e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate; (k) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards. As an alternative to providing the information required under Section 2 — Conditions for Participation, you can confirm that you have registered on NHS-Sid4Health and that the Full Qualification Information is lodged in that system. You must, however, verify that all the information that you have entered onto NHS-Sid4Health fully answers all of the specific requirements outlined. Any information not available on the database MUST be provided separately with your Expression of Interest (ie by letter, facsimile or email) by the closing date specified in this advertisement in order for your application to be considered.