Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-19
Buyer: NHS Supply Chain acting as agent for Supply Chain Coordination Ltd (SCCL)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33140000: Medical consumables | 33141310 | 33141320
Estimated value: 4700470 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: As part of the Pandemic influenza preparedness programme (PIPP) the Department of Health and the Supply Chain Coordination Ltd (SCCL) wish to procure an emergency stockpile of medical consumables to be distributed in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak or any other health related emergency across the UK.
The purpose of the contract is to ensure that there is a stockpile of these products that will only be distributed in the case of a flu pandemic or other health related emergency. The stock will be delivered by the supplier(s) to DHL (or other nominated) depot for deep storage across a number of locations in the UK in but not limited to: Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Suffolk, Derbyshire, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
In the event of a pandemic or other health related emergency the PIPP stock will be distributed by NHS Supply Chain on the instructions of the Department of Health.
It is important to note that this procurement is for product to be held in deep storage. Deep storage is defined as products which are stored in pallets in standard racking for the duration of their shelf life. The product will only be issued in the event of a pandemic Influenza any other related health emergency declared by the UK government and therefore product packaging and pallet must be capable of being stored for its stated shelf life and capable of being issued at any point from receipt to shelf life expiry date. As such the requirements are different from NHS Supply Chain business as usual arrangements. There is no requirement for product support after the completion of the contract or in the event of an Influenza pandemic or other health related emergency. Please refer to the invitation to tender for more details.
This framework agreement will have the option to extend incrementally on more than 1 occasion for up to a maximum of 48 months.
Please note that it is anticipated that a single applicant will be appointed to the lot. Applicants should refer to the invitation to tender for details of the scoring process to be used to assess the applicants to be appointed to the contract.
Applicants should refer to II.2) of this contract notice for further details in respect of appointment to the lot of this contract.
Tenders and all supporting documentation for the contract must be priced in sterling and written in English. Any agreement entered into will be considered a contract made in England according to English law and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. NHS Supply Chain is not liable for any costs (including any third party costs fees or expenses incurred by those expressing an interest, participating or tendering for this contract opportunity. NHS Supply Chain reserves the right to terminate the procurement process (or part of it), to change the basis of and the procedures for the procurement process at any time or to procure the subject matter of the contract by alternative means if it appears that it can be more advantageously procured by alternative means. The most economically advantageous or any tender will not automatically be accepted. All communications must be made through NHS Supply Chain's eTendering portal at http://procurement.supplychain.nhs.uk/ISS/ using the Message Centre facility linked to this particular contract notice.
Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. Further details will be in the tender documents.
The contracting authority reserves the right to require groupings of entities to take a particular form or to require 1 party to undertake primary legal liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the NHS Supply Chain eTendering portal at http://procurement.supplychain.nhs.uk/ISS/
Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement-specific information (if required) through the NHS Supply Chain eTendering portal as follows:
1) use URL http://procurement.supplychain.nhs.uk/ISS/ to access the NHS Supply Chain Procurement portal;
— view contract notice content by clicking on the ‘View Notice’ button for the procurement event. This opens a PDF document,
— to start the response process after the expression of interest has been done, select the ‘My Active Opportunities’ option and click on the ‘Apply’ button,

Eligibility requirements: Applicants should refer to II.2) of this contract notice for further details in respect of appointment to the lot of this contract. Tenders and all supporting documentation for the contract must be priced in sterling and written in English. Any agreement entered into will be considered a contract made in England according to English law and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. NHS Supply Chain is not liable for any costs (including any third party costs fees or expenses incurred by those expressing an interest, participating or tendering for this contract opportunity. NHS Supply Chain reserves the right to terminate the procurement process (or part of it), to change the basis of and the procedures for the procurement process at any time or to procure the subject matter of the contract by alternative means if it appears that it can be more advantageously procured by alternative means. The most economically advantageous or any tender will not automatically be accepted. All communications must be made through NHS Supply Chain's eTendering portal at http://procurement.supplychain.nhs.uk/ISS/ using the Message Centre facility linked to this particular contract notice.

Award value: 4700470