Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-04-27
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
CPV classification: 33191000 | 33198200 | 42924720 | 50420000 | 85111000: Hospital services
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP

Technical requirements: NOE CPC is currently working to establish a new framework agreement for Decontamination and Sterilisation Services. We are looking for the scope of this agreement to include the following requirements:
Lot 1 Off Site Service Provision — A part or fully outsourced ‘Off site’ service, where a third party provider will collect from the Trust, decontaminate, sterilise then return to a fixed point(s) at the Trust.
Lot 2 On-Site Service Provision — A supplier to take over an existing in-house service, or a service currently provided by a third party provider on the clients premises, this lot may include TUPE and the Transfer of assets.
Lot 3 Management Support and Service Transformation — A third party provider to supply supplementary expertise to an existing in-house service for a fixed period, in order to introduce best practice and apply specialist management expertise to improve service efficiency, but with the NHS client retaining the long term ownership and responsibility for the overall service provision.
On behalf of it's membership and the wider public sector, the NOE CPC wishes to establish a framework agreement for the supply of Decontamination and Sterilisation services and has created a bespoke set of Terms and conditions, pricing structure and service specification for this purpose. We are seeking engagement with suitably qualified providers to comment only where these documents have been changed in order to reduce the complexity of the OJEU process.
This PIN exercise will be conducted on the In-tend eTendering portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home
Potential suppliers wishing to view the documentation for comment must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through this portal.
1) Go to ‘Current Tender Opportunities’ from the eTendering portal login page: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home
This will provide you with a full list of current tender opportunities. Go to project CRE01234 and click on ‘View Details’ in the initial project view.
2) If you are not a registered user of In-tend follow the ‘Register’ tab otherwise follow the ‘Login’ link and enter email address and password.
3) From this tender management screen you will be presented will a fuller overview of the project and if interested you are able to ‘Express Interest’.
‘Expressing interest’ is not responding to the project, you will now have to complete the questionnaire and submit your response within the time-scales indicated.
4) Go to the ‘Tenders’ section and click on ‘My Tenders’, click on ‘View Details’ within the project you are interested and you will now be able to request the documents and that require commenting on as part of your response. Any sections indicated in red are awaiting your completion.
Further guidance on how to access and respond to the opportunity is available in the ‘Guidance for Suppliers’ tab which is available for downloading from the main portal login page: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/BuyerProfiles
For any support in submitting your response please contact In-tend Support team at support@in-tend.co.uk (or call 0845 557 8079/+44 (0)114 4070056.