Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-09-16
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘the Authority’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products
Estimated value: 6238347 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This framework agreement is for the supply of psychiatry generic medicines to health boards across NHS Scotland.
The goods have been split into seven (7) categories, each of which is identified as a ‘Lot’. Full details of each lot is contained in Section II.2) of this notice.
Sodium Valproate tablets, Modified Release Tablets, Capsules and Granules, Injection, Solution, Liquid and Syrup
All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978, and any integrated joint boards established pursuant to New Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
Supply of sodium valproate tablets, modified release tablets, capsules and granules, injection, solution, liquid and syrup to NHS Scotland in a range of presentations. The authority intends awarding each product line as a multi-supplier unranked framework agreement on a line by line basis and it is envisaged a maximum of 6 suppliers will be awarded.
All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 and any integrated joint boards established pursuant to New Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
Supply of levodopa/carbidopa/entacapone film coated tablets to NHS Scotland in a range of presentations. The authority intends awarding each product line as a multi-supplier unranked framework agreement on a line by line basis and it is envisaged a maximum of 6 suppliers will be awarded.
All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 and any integrated joint boards established pursuant to New Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
Supply of phenytoin sodium capsules, tablets and ampoules to NHS Scotland in a range of presentations. The authority intends awarding each product line as a multi-supplier unranked framework agreement on a line by line basis and it is envisaged a maximum of 6 suppliers will be awarded.
All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 and any integrated joint boards established pursuant to New Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
Supply of lamotrigine tablets and dispersible tablets to NHS Scotland in a range of presentations. The authority intends awarding a multi-supplier unranked framework agreement for the Lot and it is envisaged a maximum of 6 Suppliers will be awarded.
All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 and any integrated joint boards established pursuant to New Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
Supply of carbamazepine tablets, suppositories, modified release tablets and liquid to NHS Scotland in a range of presentations. The authority intends awarding a multi-supplier unranked framework agreement for the Lot and it is envisaged a maximum of 6 suppliers will be awarded.
All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1978 and any integrated joint boards established pursuant to New Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
Supply of all other psychiatry generic medicines to NHS Scotland in a range of presentations. The authority intends awarding each line within this lot to a single supplier.


Winner: Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd
Award value: 6238347
Number of bids: 1