Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-21
Buyer: The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Country: UK
Region: Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 75200000 | 85100000: Health services | 85110000: Hospital and related services | 85112200 | 85149000
Estimated value: 35000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-08-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (the Authority) is the contracting authority. The Authority is seeking a contractor to provide hospital pharmacy outpatient dispensing services (the Services). A primary aspect of Services will constitute the immediate on-site dispensing of prescription to waiting out-patients from the facilities on the Pinderfields Hospital (PGH), Dewsbury (DDH) and Pontefract Hospital (PGI) sites (together the Sites). Activity in relation to the Services is likely to increase each year of the term of the resulting contract, the Authority reserves the right to make any necessary changes to the Services to reflect any changes as a result of its Clinical Services Strategy.
Suppliers interested in providing the Services must have the capacity and willingness to work with, and fully manage, any third party suppliers.
The resulting contract will be for a period of 5 years with an option for the Authority to extend it up to a further 2 years. The Authority is aiming a procure a contract with a preferred provider (the Contractor) for the provision of on-site dispensing services for outpatient prescriptions including private prescriptions and to enhance the service delivered to patients.
The Contractor would be responsible for the procurement, storage, dispensing, distribution and delivery of medicines, along with invoicing and the provision of management information.
The successful organisation should be a registered Pharmacy providing dispensing services under GPHC regulations prior to or from the start date of the Contract.
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.
The Authority reserves the right to vary the process as may be required by the Authority. Such flexibility is permitted with respect to procurement for Social and Other Specific Services and the Authority shall be bound by the Regulations only to the extent that they apply to contracts for Social and Other Specific Services.
Enabling works will be required at the Sites prior to services commencement. For planning purposes, the Authority assumes a phased approach for roll out across the Sites. Bidders will be required to factor into their costs the requirement for the provision of such enabling works. Bidders are strongly encouraged to attend site visits to be held on 26.7.2016 and 27.7.2016. Bidders should register their interest in relation to the site visits through the in-tend e-procurement portal — please see link below. Further information is set out in the Invitation to Tender documentation.
The Services at Pinderfields Hospital and Dewsbury Hospital are currently delivered by a third party provider. The Authority's own employees deliver the services at Pontefract. The authority anticipates that it is likely that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) will apply to the provision of the new services under this contract so as to transfer the individuals employed on the existing services at Pinderfields Hospital and Dewsbury Hospital into the employment of the new provider. The Authority's employees delivering the services at Pontefract have accepted redeployment elsewhere within the Authority. However, the Authority gives no guarantee or assurances as to the application of TUPE and recommends that Bidders take their own advice on the application and effect of TUPE on this contract and the provision of the new services.
Information in relation the the staff who deliver the current services is set out in the Invitation to Tender documentation.
Tenders must be valid for 4 months from the date that tenders are submitted to the Authority. The deadline for Tenders is 12:00 noon on 18.8.2016.
Tenders and all supporting documentation for the Contract 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. The Authority is not liable for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by those expressing an interest in and/or tendering for this contract opportunity.
The Authority 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 contract 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.

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