Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-22
Buyer: NHS Supply Chain acting as agent for NHS Business Services Authority
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33000000 | 33100000 | 33170000: Anaesthesia and resuscitation | 33172000: Resuscitation devices | 33172100
Estimated value: 80000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-09-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Lääketieteelliset laitteet, farmaseuttiset valmisteet ja henkilökohtaiseen hygieniaan liittyvät tuotteet
The term ‘related accessories’ refers to any options or accessories (Goods or Services) as relevant to the, said, types of equipment (or machines) that are supplied as standard and that enable the equipment (or machine) to operate immediately upon delivery. For example software modules, trolleys, cables, point of sale (POS) maintenance and after-sales warranty services.
The scope of this tender, and any resulting Framework Agreement, does not include the supply of consumable products only.
— Electronic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) compatible anaesthesia machines without ventilator; and
Please refer to section 7 of the Invitation to Tender document for the relevant assumptions on pricing information.
You are asked to provide details of any related accessories as part of your tender response and related accessories (products and services) are described further within the Specification document and this Notice (II.1.4).
This is an estimate only as precise quantities of likely purchases are unknown. It is anticipated that in the first 36 months of the Framework Agreement the value of purchases for this lot will be in the region of £19 800 000 however this is approximate only. The figures below for the total estimated value are based on that initial expenditure.
Applicants do not have to tender for all of the product lines within this Lot (1). However, in order to tender for any number (one or more) of the low acuity product lines the Applicant(s) must provide a formal tender response for at least one of the Mid or High Acuity product lines (this includes the Electronic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) compatible anaesthesia machines, with and without ventilator, product lines).
This means that if any Applicant is only able to offer/supply the four Low Acuity anaesthesia machine(s) then they will be unable to submit a compliant tender and all such tenders that may be received shall be rejected by NHS Supply Chain.
If an Applicant can only tender/offer the Mid and/or High acuity and/or the Electronic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) compatible anaesthesia machines (with and without ventilator) i.e. they cannot offer Low acuity product lines then the Applicant shall be able to proceed to tender/provide an offer. In other words Applicants do not have to be able to offer any one or more of the low acuity product lines within this Lot.
NHS Supply Chain anticipates awarding to all Applicants in this Lot who meet the minimum requirements which are set out in the tender documents and whose average basket Score (based on the methodology and definitions as stated within the Invitation to Tender document) meets or exceeds a hurdle of 50 % (when rounded up or down from four decimal places, as the case may be, to the nearest whole number) at tender evaluation stage across the number of product lines where they have submitted a valid tender response shall be awarded to the Lot. Should these Applicants be able to, over the lifetime of the Framework Agreement, supply any of the other product lines (that they have not tendered for) the Applicant(s) will be offered the opportunity to do so.
Please note that Applicants must submit a bid against all evaluated product lines which they are able to supply at the time of the tender, subject always to the terms of the tender.
If pricing information has not been submitted for a particular product line and where an Applicant is (immediately post-award) found to be able to supply the particular product line NHS Supply Chain reserves the right not to allow the Applicant (if successful) to supply that particular product line over the lifetime of the Framework Agreement.
This Framework Agreement will have the option to extend incrementally for a further period of up to 12 months in addition to the initial 36 month period as set out in the Framework Agreement.
Please refer to section 7 of the Invitation to Tender document for the relevant assumptions on pricing information.

Eligibility requirements: Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information: This procurement exercise will be conducted on the NHS Supply Chain eTendering portal at http://procurement.supplychain.nhs.uk/ISS/ Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register as follows: their expression of interest and provide additional procurement-specific information (if required) through the NHS Supply Chain eTendering portal as follows: Registration 1. Use URL http://procurement.supplychain.nhs.uk/ISS/ to access the NHS Supply Chain Procurement portal. 2. If not yet registered: — Click on the ‘Not Registered Yet’ link to access the registration page. — Complete the registration pages as guided by the mini guide found on the landing page. Portal Access If registration has been completed: — Login with URL http://procurement.supplychain.nhs.uk/ISS/ . — Click on the ‘Supplier Dashboard’ icon to open the list of new procurement events. Expression Of Interest — View Contract Notice content by clicking on the ‘view notice’ button for the procurement event. This opens a PDF document. — Express an interest by clicking on the ‘express interest’ button. — To start the response process after the expression of interest has been done, select the ‘My Active Opportunities’ option and click on the ‘Apply’ button. — Select the procurement event from the list by clicking on the description — In the detail view click on the orange coloured ‘Framework Agreement’ button to start responding to the tender. Tender response Header level requirements: — Applicants are required to read all Framework Header Documents which can be accessed using the ‘NHS SC HEADER DOCUMENTS’ button, which is located in the ‘SELECT FRAMEWORK’ tab. — Applicants are required to upload the documents requested using the ‘supplier header documents’ button, which is located in the ‘select framework’ tab (refer to section 6.2 of the Invitation to Tender document). There is no requirement in this tender to use the ‘framework questionnaire’ tab. Lot Level Requirements: — A preview of the Lot line details can be viewed using the ‘lot header’ tab, by selecting the lot and using the ‘lot line information’ button. in order to respond to a lot, applicants must select the relevant lot and then use the ‘express intent’ button. This expression of intent does not place any obligation on the Applicant to respond, the action unlocks the ability to respond. — Complete price offers per line for the Lot by completing the required fields for the lines the Applicant wants to include in the bid using the ‘lot line detail’ tab. There are a number of mandatory fields to complete on a product line basis, these are highlighted in yellow in the ‘lot line detail’ tab. — Applicants are required to answer all mandatory Lot specific questions found in the ‘lot evaluation criteria’ tab. 1.1 There are no documents in the ‘NHS SC lot documents’ tab in the ‘lot header’ tab for this tender. 1.2 The ‘SUPPLIER LOT DOCUMENTS’ button in each of the ‘lot header’ tabs has no requirement for completion in this tender. — Applicants are then required to click on the ‘terms and conditions’ button in the ‘submit individual lot response(s)’ tab to view and accept the ISS Terms and Conditions. — Accept the ISS ‘terms and conditions’ button to access this function. — Submit Lot response, by clicking on the ‘submit response to selected lot’ button in the ‘submit individual lot response(s)’ tab to submit response for the Lot. Each Lot must be submitted independently. — Applicants are able to view their submission using the ‘supplier submission report’ button, found in the ‘submit individual lot response(s)’ tab.

Award value: 80000000