Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-09-04
Buyer: Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 85111100: Surgical services
Estimated value: 60000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-10-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Managed Healthcare Facility (Managed Service). Support the expansion of robotic surgery and establishment of a Centre of Excellence for Robotic Surgery through the provision of surgical robots under Managed Service Agreements. Lot 1 (Primary Provision) Scope may include buy-back of two existing surgical robots and provision of at least two additional robots with the option to further increase provision for a further four robots (eight robots in total). Lot 2 (Evaluation Provision) Scope may include option to award to more than one supplier to assess pre-market and new to market systems and the option to provide up to four evaluation robots.
Managed Healthcare Facility (Managed Service). Scope of service will include provision and re-fresh of equipment, equipment maintenance, management of the supply chain, soft facilities management services (where appropriate), process optimisation. The Contract will include the option to expand the Managed Service to cover a maximum of eight surgical robots during the term of the Contract.
Option for the contract to enable the provision up to eight surgical robots during the term of the contract(s) including any extension period.
Option to expand the scope of surgical equipment provided if such equipment support process optimisation/ patient outcomes.
This Lot is intended to enable the surgical team to re-fresh existing robotic systems and scale up the adoption of robotic surgery.
Managed Healthcare Facility (Managed Service). Scope of service will include provision and re-fresh of equipment, equipment maintenance, management of the supply chain, soft facilities management services (where appropriate), process optimisation. The Lot will cover surgical robotic systems at pre-market/ new to market. The Trust reserves the right to award a Managed Service Contract to more than one supplier under this Lot to enable evaluation of different systems to be undertaken. The Contract will include the option to supply up to four robot systems under the Evaluation Lot.
Option to award a contract to provide a system(s) to undertake pre-market and new to market evaluation.
Option for the contract to enable the provision up to four surgical robots during the term of the contract(s) including any extension period.
Option to expand the scope of surgical equipment provided if such equipment support process optimisation/ patient outcomes.
This Lot is intended to provide the flexibility for the surgical team to undertake evaluation of new to market robotic systems.
(1) The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
(2) The procurement is under the "light touch regime" pursuant to Regulations 74 to 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. As such the contracting authorities are free to set the procedures for the procurement, subject (inter alia) to those procedures being sufficient to ensure compliance with the principles of transparency and equal treatment. Accordingly, contracting the authorities intend to follow a procedure which broadly follows the process of a competitive dialogue, but will not be bound to follow all of the prescriptive elements of that procedure. References in this notice and subsequent procurement documents to the or a "competitive dialogue" shall be construed accordingly.


Award value: 60000000