Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-10
Buyer: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (‘UHCW’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33000000 | 33141621 | 33700000 | 33751000
Estimated value: 2415733 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-05-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This tender is to establish a framework agreement for the supply of continence products, ancillary items and bulk delivery service. This will be a multi source contract (award of up to 5 suppliers) for a period of 2 years with the option to extend for a further two 12 month periods. The scope of this contract will include wearable continence products, washable and disposable underpads, clinical support, training and delivery.
The objective of this agreement is to deliver best value in terms of quality, safety, service and price for the bulk supply and delivery of continence products and ancillary items. The scope of this agreement will include wearable continence products, disposable and washable continence products, ancillary items, clinical support, training and bulk delivery of products.
This will be a multi source contract (award of up to 5 suppliers) for a period of 2 years with the option to extend for a further two 12 month periods. Upon award, participating authorities will have the opportunity to enter into call off contracts by direct award and by re-opening competition on price through mini competition to accommodate requirements for a bespoke specification.
Terms and conditions/Activity Based Income (ABI) — the terms and conditions of this framework agreement and any resulting call-off contract is appended to the ITT. These terms include provisions requiring the payment by the supplier of an ABI management charge in consideration of the award of this framework agreement, the management and administration by HTE of the overall contract structure and associated documentation, as well as the requirement to submit regular management information to HTE.
This exercise will be conducted on the HTE Bravo portal. Candidates wishing to be considered must register expressions of interest as follows:
Click the PQQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers link. These are the PQQs/ITTs open to any registered supplier.
Click the express interest button at the top of the page. This will move the PQQ/ITT into your My PQQs/My ITTs page. You can access any attachments by clicking buyer attachments in the PQQ/ITT Details box. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the PQQ/ITT.
If you require any further advice, contact the Bravo eTendering Help Desk at help@bravosolution.co.uk.
Sid4Gov HTE utilises the sid4gov supplier information database. Candidates should register on sid4gov at https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register and submit their sid4gov company profile for publication on the database. Candidates already registered on sid4gov must ensure information is up to date.
Where access to sid4gov is unavailable, please contact the sid4gov helpdesk at sid4gov@gps.gsi.gov.uk. Please note that sid4gov does not populate any fields of the tender of HTE's Bravo Portal.
HTE may request such information as may be required pursuant to Regulation 2015. Details are provided in the ITT Document available in the buyer attachments section.
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
(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);

Eligibility requirements: HTE may request such information as may be required pursuant to Regulation 2015. Details are provided in the ITT Document available in the buyer attachments section.

Award value: 2415733