Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-01-13
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Region: Staffordshire CC
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85150000: Medical imaging services
Submission deadline: 2016-01-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Area covered by GP services registered to Stafford and Surround CCG, Cannock Chase CCG and South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsular CCG.
3 CCGs in South Staffordshire, led by NHS Stafford and Surrounds Clinical Commissioning Group, are seeking to re-procure the current provision of Non Obstetric Ultrasound services through AQP. The associate CCGs are Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group and South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsular Clinical Commissioning Group. This is a full re-opening of the current AQP Non Obstetric Ultrasound service. All existing providers must reapply for accreditation status to continue providing this service as at 1.4.2016. Please note that under ‘Any Qualified Provider’ contracts there will be no guarantees of volume in the contracts awarded. Further, prices are set and can be accessed on the tariff (included in the documentation?).
— to ensure patients receive the right test at the right time and in the most clinically appropriate local setting,
— to ensure diagnostic testing is integrated across pathways of care, that the report and/or images follows the patient and that there is no unnecessary duplication of investigation,
— to enable patients and referring clinicians to access a choice of provision according to patient choice, clinical need and relevant care pathway, and
— to ensure diagnostic tests are appropriate, necessary, clinically correct, of high quality, with timely access and reporting,
— to develop local service provision as part of a diagnostic commissioning plan which aims to improve access and choice for patients.
The service will be commissioned using the Any Qualified Provider process. In securing services under the AQP process, assurance of competence, quality and safety standards is required. Any provider will be eligible to join the Qualified Provider list subject to demonstrating competency against specified criteria. Qualified providers will be expected to deliver the service under the NHS Standard Contract. As a Qualified Provider there are no guaranteed levels of activity and payment is made based on actual provision. Information document and all other supporting documents will be issued to those expressing an interest and available for download on Bravo, prior to filling out the Bravo application form, paying attention to the guidance therein at: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
Midlands and Lancashire CSU is the initial point of contact for all communication during the procurement. Under no circumstances should Potential Bidders approach the Commissioners, their staff or advisers in relation to the Procurement. The CCGs would also encourage innovative solutions including consortia, strategic alliances and sub-contracts which will deliver value for money and improved services to patients.
Bidders are invited to express an interest in providing this service by email to Kate Fox and Elaine Butler, no later than 19.1.2015. E-mail Catherine.Fox@staffordshirecss.nhs.uk and elaine.butler@staffordshirecss.nhs.uk
The Contract will be for 3 years (36 months) with the option to extent by 1 year (12 months) subject to the approval of the Commissioners.
Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.
The Authority reserves the right to require groupings of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability for a contract to be performed by a group of economic operators or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability in respect of the entire contract irrespective of the form the grouping takes.
(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;

Eligibility requirements: Any supplier may be disqualified who: (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. The following may be requested in assessing potential bidders' economic and financial capacity: (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 overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last 2 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. Please refer to Memorandum of Information for specific requirements issued with the Tender. Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, to register at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to do so will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.
The following may be requested in assessing potential bidders' economic and financial capacity: (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 overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last 2 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. Please refer to Memorandum of Information for specific requirements issued with the Tender.
Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, to register at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to do so will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.