Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-04-17
Buyer: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (“UHCW”)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48814000: Medical information systems | 85111800
Estimated value: 1000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: HealthTrust Europe (HTE) is seeking expressions of interest to establish a framework agreement for the provision of Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and any associated products and/or equipment.
It is envisaged this will be a multi-source framework agreement to include, but not limited to, LIMS software, associated hardware, support and maintenance.
To assist in the strategic direction of the procurement and overall solution, HealthTrust Europe is seeking supplier engagement.
Please send your expressions of interest to pathology@htepg.com and quote "Framework for LIMS" in the email subject; the deadline for expressions of interest is 27.4.2018. HTE will be holding engagement discussions with interested suppliers to discuss the potential framework and strategic growth and change of the market between 20th April and 11th May.
Supplier engagement will be carried out in accordance with Regulations 40 and 41 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
HealthTrust Europe (HTE) is seeking expressions of interest to establish a framework agreement for the provision of Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and any associated products and/or equipment.
It is envisaged this will be a multi-source framework agreement to include, but not limited to, LIMS software, associated hardware, support and maintenance.
To assist in the strategic direction of the procurement and overall solution, HealthTrust Europe is seeking supplier engagement.
Please send your expressions of interest to pathology@htepg.com and quote "Framework for LIMS" in the email subject; the deadline for expressions of interest is 27.4.2018. HTE will be holding engagement discussions with interested suppliers to discuss the potential framework and strategic growth and change of the market between 20th April and 11th May.
Supplier engagement will be carried out in accordance with Regulations 40 and 41 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
HTE is a central purchasing body who is able to carry out this tender exercise by virtue of its appointment as an agent of UHCW. Notwithstanding HTE’s relationship with UHCW, it is HTE conducting this tender exercise and will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. The bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the UK as defined in Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as may be updated from time to time. In particular, the following entities in the UK (particularly those of a health and/or social care nature) are envisaged as framework agreement users:
(ii) health and care trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx);
(iii) mental health trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx);
(iv) clinical commissioning groups (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx);
(v) ambulance trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx);


Award value: 1000000