Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-09-16
Buyer: East Midlands Pharmacy Collaborative
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products
Submission deadline: 2017-10-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This specification details the requirements for the provision of a service to supply Viscoelastic products for use in participating Trusts.
Sodium Hyaluronate / Hyaluronates are gel like substances (viscoelastics) which are used as a surgical aid in ophthalmology.
EMPC, acting on behalf of participating Trusts, reserves the right to award to more than one supplier to achieve.
This tender is to establish a framework agreement for the supply of Viscoelastic to participating trusts, in line with the agreed specification. Estimated usage is 15 420 syringes per year by our member Trusts.
East Midlands Pharmacy Collaboration (EMPC) is a procurement collaborative hosted by Royal Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, acting as an agent on behalf of its Member Organisations. The member organisations currently working with EMPC and who may purchase under any contract awarded through this process are found at http://www.derbyhospitals.nhs.uk/primary/pharmacy/empc/
The public and voluntary sector bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the United Kingdom as defined in Regulation 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as well as all contracting authorities and entities in the European Union as defined in the Annexes to Commission Decision 2008/963/EC as may be updated from time to time. In particular, it is envisaged that this framework agreement will be used by the following entities in the United Kingdom as described below (particularly where such entities are of a health and/or social care nature):
NHS England (formerly the NHS Commissioning Board); and clinical senates and strategic clinical networks.
The above list includes each organisation's successors and assigns, any equivalent organisations and any associated organisations created as a result of any organisational changes.
In addition, the use of this framework agreement will be open to any bodies or organisations operating in the United Kingdom and/or any country in the European Union which are of a health and/or social care nature or which have a similar procurement need in respect of any goods or services to any of the above listed organisations.
Furthermore, and if provided for in the contract documents, EMPC may extend the scope and benefit of the framework agreement to any private sector (i.e. all non-public sector) organisations operating in the United Kingdom and/or any country in the European Union which are of a health and/or social care nature who may also use this framework agreement.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
EMPC is a procurement collaborative hosted by Derby Hospitals NHS Trust, acting as an agent on behalf of its Member Organisations. The member organisations currently working with EMPC and who may purchase under any contract awarded through this process are as follows:
Variants may be accepted at the member organisations' discretion provided that they meet the core requirements as set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tenders and all supporting documents must be priced in Sterling and completed in English (or full English translation provided at no cost). Any contract entered into be considered a contract made in England according to English Law and which shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. The member organisations and EMPC are not and shall not be liable for any costs by those expressing an interest or concern for this contract opportunity. The member organisations and the host member reserves the right at all times acting in its absolute discretion, not to award a contract, to make what changes to the structure, format, procedures, CPV codes and timing of the procurement process and to cancel or vary the process in its entirety or any part of it.
East Midlands Pharmacy Collaborative will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the EMPC 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 via the Bravo eTendering system using the messaging facility within the appropriate ITT. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed for are at risk from harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).