Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-10-03
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (“NSS”)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79610000 | 79620000 | 79624000 | 85141200: Services provided by nurses
Estimated value: 75000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The common services agency (more commonly known as National Services Scotland) (“the Authority") acting through its division procurement, commissioning and facilities is undertaking this procurement of the supply of temporary agency nurses, healthcare assistants and operating department practitioners on behalf of all entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards, special Health Boards and the authority or other NHS organisation established pursuant to the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978), any integrated joint boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (joint working) Scotland Act 2014 and Hospices.
The provision temporary agency nurses, healthcare assistants and operating department practitioners to NHS Scotland entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (i.e. all Health Boards, special Health Boards and the common services agency), any integrated joint boards established pursuant to the Public Bodies (joint working) Scotland Act 2014 and Hospices.
The common services agency shall be entitled (at its sole discretion)to extend the duration of the Framework agreement by 2-12 calendar month periods.
The authority will notify economic operators who submitted a tender or (where no deselection process has previously been made) applied to be selected to tender, of its decision to award the Framework Agreement which notification will contain, among other information, a summary of the reasons as to why the economic operator was unsuccessful. The notification will incorporate a “standstill period” of a minimum of 10 (ten) clear calendar days (or a minimum of 15 (fifteen) if the communication method used is not electronic) between the date on which the authority despatches the notice(s) and the date on which the authority proposes to conclude the relevant Framework Agreement. The bringing of court proceedings against the authority during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the Framework Agreement until the court proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of, or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The remedies that may be awarded by the courts before the Framework Agreement has been entered into include the setting aside of the decision to award the Framework Agreement to the winning tenderer(s). The bringing of court proceedings against the authority after the Framework Agreement has been entered into will not affect the Framework Agreement unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that maybe awarded by the courts where the Framework Agreement has been entered into are limited to the award of damages.


Winner: Aberness Care Ltd
Award value: 75000000
Number of bids: 59