Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-06-04
Buyer: NHS Blood & Transplant
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 60100000 | 60400000: Air transport services | 60410000: Scheduled air transport services | 64121000

Technical requirements: NHSBT / British Bone Marrow Registry associated locations from the United Kingdom to various European and worldwide designated laboratories or hospitals.
Occasionally samples may need to be transported from an international collection point to a UK specified address.
The Authority is seeking to source the services of an International Courier to transport blood samples from a UK address specified by the British Bone Marrow Registry to a designated European and World-wide testing laboratory or hospital as required.
Blood samples are supplied from potential HLA matched donors for additional tests to confirm their HLA type and microbiology status prior to transplant. If the delivery is delayed the transplant may not proceed on time. Some samples may be required to be refrigerated and maintained between 2 and 8 degrees Centigrade and the contractor will be required to supply packaging and demonstrate temperature control and monitoring systems whilst the product is in transit.
Occasionally samples may need to be transported from an international collection point to a UK specified address.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise. Please see below details for registering on the Bravo Solutions Portal.
To register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) — Browse to the eSourcing Portal at https://nhsbt.bravosolution.co.uk — Click the ‘Register now!’ link — Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’ — Enter your correct business and user details — Note the username you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete — You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure). Please confirm by email once you have completed your registration if you wish to express an interest in this tender to janice.allen@nhsbt.nhs.uk
This authority (NHSBT — NHS Blood and Transplant) will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderer's. This period allows unsuccessful tenderer's to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from Mrs Shirley Phillips, National Purchasing Manager Estates and Services, NHS Blood and Transplant, North Bristol Park, Park Way, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7QH, United Kingdom. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may only award damages.


Winner: PDP Courier Services
Number of bids: 2