Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-19
Buyer: NHS London Procurement Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85149000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-10-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: London Procurement Partnership (LPP) contracts as Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and is issuing this Contract Notice as a call to competition to prospective suppliers who wish to submit tenders for a Framework Agreement for Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing Services.
With an increasing number of LPP member organisations looking to generate efficiencies and service improvements in Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing, LPP has taken the decision to tender for a framework agreement for these services. The aim of the framework agreement will be to enable LPP member Trusts and NHS organisations throughout the United Kingdom to accelerate and streamline the procurement process, thereby allowing for early realisation of benefits. Accessible only through further competition, the purpose of the framework agreement will be achieve a degree of standardisation of headline governance and outline specification. Furthermore LPP will be creating a further competition tool kit for organisations wishing to use the framework agreement thereby seeking to standardise the approach thereby simplifying processes for supplier and NHS organisation alike.
When conducting local further competitions NHS organisations may develop the specification to provide for specific requirements relevant to those organisations. Also under further competition the NHS organisations may choose to include some or all of the requirements in the specification dependant upon their needs.
Bidders must demonstrate that they can provide all of the services called for under the Framework Agreement.
Any organisations interested in delivering Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing Services under a framework agreement to engage with LPP should download the procurement documentation and, if interested, submit a tender in accordance with the instructions.
LPP is not liable for any costs incurred by those tendering for this framework agreement. Opportunity.
Special Health Authorities: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx
Arms Length Bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arms-length-bodies/our-arms-length-bodies
NHS England: http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/d-com/ and other organisations involved in commissioning of primary care services via Clinical Commissioning Groups — CCGs supported by the Commissioning Support Units — CSU's which will be responsible for commissioning most aspects of NHS care (or equivalent body/ bodies established pursuant to legislation enacted as a result of, or in connection with, the White Paper.
NHS Professional Regulator: http:// www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/healthregulators/Pages/professional-standards-authority.aspx
The Clinical Commissioning Board, Area Teams: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx and other organisations involved in commissioning and/or overseeing General Practitioner services and GP consortia and GP Practices; and any other provider of primary medical services: a) Who are a party to any of the following contracts: — General Medical Services (GMS), — Personal Medical Services (PMS), — Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS); and/or b) Commissioned by NHS England or other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing General Practitioner services, as described above.
NHS Wales (National Health Service for Wales) including but not limited to Welsh Health Boards, Primary care services — GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.nhsdirect.wales.nhs.uk/ localservices/localhealthboards/NHSScotland (NationalHealthServiceforScotland) including but not limited to NHS Boards, Hospitals, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital Services, social care services and community services including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.hscni.net
The framework agreement will be for a duration of 4 years, only in exceptional circumstances shall LPP extend the Framework Agreement subject to the existing terms and conditions for a period of up to 12 months. Further information is set out in the ITT documentation.
The successful organisation delivering the services should be registered as a pharmacy providing dispensing services under GPhC Regulations.
This is a procurement process for services categorised as Social and Other Specific Services for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the ‘Regulations'). Bidders will be required to submit their short-listing information and their tenders at the same time — please refer to the Invitation to Tender for more details. LPP reserves the right to vary the process as may be required by LPP. Such flexibility is permitted with respect to procurement for Social and Other Specific Services and LPP shall be bound by the Regulations only to the extent that they apply to contracts for Social and Other Specific Services. Bidders will be expected to provide reference sites where they have previously provided outpatient dispensing pharmacy services. LPP will use the reference sites to verify information provided in Tenders. Contracts awarded under the Framework Agreement may exceed the term of the Framework Agreement. It may be the case that LPP member organisations who wish to award contracts under the Framework Agreement may have existing in-house or third party service providers delivering their pharmacy services. Therefore, it may be the case that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 ("TUPE") could apply to the provision of the new services under contracts awarded by LPP member organisations under the Framework Agreement. Further details would be included in the relevant further competition documentation that a LPP member organisation would use to award a contract under the Framework Agreement. Neither LPP nor its member organisations give any guarantee or assurances as to the application of TUPE at contract award stage and when further competitions are being carried out under the Framework Agreement, the Bidders on the Framework Agreement should take their own legal advice on the application and effect of TUPE on any contract and the provision of the new services. It may be the case that the relevant member organisation awarding a contract under this Framework Agreement may require the successful Bidder to occupy a space on the member organisation's site. The member organisation may therefore require the successful Bidder to enter into certain property documentation. If this was the case, this would be detailed in the relevant further competition documentation. During further competitions to award contracts, it may be that certain requirements are to be subject to dialogue and/or negotiation between the Suppliers on the Framework Agreement and the relevant member organisation and this will be permitted as part of the further competitions. The deadline for Tenders is 17:00 on 5.10.2016. Tenders and all supporting documentation for the Framework Agreement must be priced in sterling and written in English. Any agreement entered into will be considered a contract made in England according to English law and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. LPP is not liable for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by those expressing an interest in and/or tendering for this opportunity. LPP reserves the right to terminate the procurement process (or part of it), to change the basis of and the procedures for the procurement process at any time or to procure the subject matter of the Framework Agreement by alternative means if it appears that it can be more advantageously procured by alternative means. The most economically advantageous tender or any tender will not automatically be accepted. LPP will award the framework agreement to any bidder who exceeds a minimum score in relation to their response in section B, annex B3, Bidder Response for quality exceeding 52 % before the application of overall quality/price weighting. The LPP contacts for this project are: Marc Osborne, Tim Root, Jackie Eastwood. Potential bidders can only access the ITT and related documents electronically via: www.lppsourcing.org Potential bidders can only message LPP contacts via: www.lppsourcing.co.uk

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