Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-04-23
Buyer: Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 24111500 | 31000000 | 33000000 | 33100000 | 33110000: Imaging equipment for medical use
Estimated value: 150000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Laboratory and Health related Services- Including Medical/Clinical Laboratory; other Laboratory Services; and wider clinical disciplines (eg. Theatres and Surgical services etc.) along with wider Social health (including public health).
Lot 2: Health Services -Including provision of Consumables, Medical equipments, Associated training, Inventory Management, Maintenance and Repair.
Lot 3: ICT and other discipline services- including provision of over service which will include supply, maintenance and repair, provision of operational service, and disposal).
Provision of Managed Service Contract where a chosen provider will cover range of activities. Laboratory service will cover medical, clinical and Technical, Social, Food and Water Environment and Scientific services. The procurement includes the necessity to manage the financial, transitional and operational needs of the service.
For Laboratory Services (Health, Scientific, Technical, Medical and Clinical): the scope of Managed Service may include (but not limited to) provision of Laboratory, Equipment, Medical Devices, Consumables, Laboratory Information Management System, Quality Assessment and Assurances, Design/Build/Finance the configuration of Laboratory Space, Maintenance and Repair, Storage and/or Distribution, Disposal, decontamination and sterillisation serivces, Laboratory Management Services etc. including acquisition/delivery of any or all elements.
The benefit of Managed Service is for the efficient provision of clinical/non clinical discipline and not just equipment.
For clarification: above (Medical/Clinical Laboratory, Laboratory and Health Services) requirements may include (and not limited to):
— laboratory equipment (generally used to either perform an experiment or take measurements and gather data and will include tools and speciality equipment's) and consumables.
Definition of Laboratory: Laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which Scientific or Technical Research, Experiments and Measurements may be performed. NHS, Universities and other public sector bodies can have Laboratories which may undertake activities which will be medical or non-medical.
—(General) Medical Device Directive, MDD (Council Directive 93/42/EEC) and its amendment under Directive 2007/47/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council;
—In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Device Directive, IVDMDD (Directive 98/79/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council).
Definition 1: According to Directive 2007/47/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (which amended Council Directive 93/42/EEC) a medical device is means: any instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, including the software intended by its manufacturer to be used specifically for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes and necessary for its proper application, intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of:
and which does not achieve its principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, but which may be assisted by such means.
Definition 2: An In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Device (IVD) is defined in Directive 98/79/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as: any medical device which is a reagent, reagent product, calibrator, control material, kit, instrument, apparatus, equipment, or system, whether used alone or in combination, intended by the manufacturer to be used in vitro for the examination of specimens, including blood and tissue donations, derived from the human body, solely or principally for the purpose of providing information:
Specimen receptacles are considered to be in vitro diagnostic medical devices. ‘Specimen receptacles’ are those devices, whether vacuum-type or not, specifically intended by their manufacturers for the primary containment and preservation of specimens derived from the human body for the purpose of in vitro diagnostic examination.


Award value: 150000000