Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-02-24
Buyer: National Services Scotland (Blood Transfusion Service)(hereafter referred to as the ‘Authority’)
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000
Estimated value: 222000 GBP
Award criteria: Customer support — maintenance, service and calibration requirements, Customer support — engineering response times, Functional suitability, design, innovation, ease of use, Commercial

Technical requirements: Customer support — maintenance, service and calibration requirements
Customer support — engineering response times
Functional suitability, design, innovation, ease of use
Commercial
SNBTS currently has 2 manufacturing sites (Edinburgh and Glasgow), however in 2017, SNBTS manufacturing shall be consolidated into a new single site based at Riccarton, near Edinburgh. This equipment will be initially installed at each site and subsequently transferred to the new facility.
SNBTS collects approximately 178 000 whole blood donations per year: from this it manufactures approximately: 169 000 RCC; 32 500 Buffy-coats; 17 000 FFP; 12 000 FPP Intermediate for cryoprecipitate production; and 6 000 platelet pools per year.
The Authority will notify economic operators who submitted a tender or (where no deselection notification has previously been made) applied to be selected to tender, of its decision to award the contract which notification will contain among other information, a summary of the reasons why the economic operator was unsuccessful. The notification will incorporate a ‘standstill period’ of a minimum of 10 clear calendar days (or a minimum of 15 if the communication method used is not electronic) between the date on which the Authority despatches the notice and the date on which the Authority proposes to make an award pursuant to this procurement. The bringing of Court proceedings against the Authority during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the contract 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 contract has been entered into include the setting aside of the decision to award the contract to the winning tenderer. The bringing of Court proceedings against the Authority after the contract has been entered into will not affect the contract unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the Courts where the contract has been entered into are limited to the award of damages. Economic operators are entitled to write to the Authority after receipt of the notification should they require further clarification. The Authority will respond within 15 days of such a written request, but it should be noted that receipt by the Authority of such request during the standstill period may not prevent the Authority from awarding the contract following the expiry of the standstill period. Where an economic operator is dissatisfied with the Authority's response to its request for clarification, or considers that the contract has been concluded in breach of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012, such economic operator is advised to promptly seek independent legal advice.


Winner: Macopharma
Number of bids: 2