Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-01-06
Buyer: NHS Shared Business Services
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30210000 | 30211000 | 30211200 | 30211300 | 48000000
Estimated value: 45000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-02-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) wishes to establish a framework agreement for use by or on behalf of current and future NHS SBS clients, including without limitation:
(II) other persons and bodies exercising NHS functions or otherwise providing NHS services (including, but not limited to primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and foundation trusts) (being other NHS entities),
(IV) private sector entities in the UK and Isle of Man public services sector (see section VI.3), Additional Information).
NHS Shared Business Services are looking to place a new framework which will focus on allowing customers to purchase full IT solutions. Therefore NHS Shared Business Services are looking for providers of full IT Infrastructure Servers and Storage Hardware, Networking, Virtualization, other Services and End User and Solutions Software.
Whilst the framework is looking for a full solution, please note that customers will be able to buy pieces of hardware and/or software as required through the framework. For example customers will be able to purchase new servers without the need to purchase other items.
— Allows customers to run their own further competitions (using suppliers on the framework) in order to drive value, meet bespoke requirements, generate financial savings and saves customer time and resource when compared to a full in-house OJEU process;
Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU supply eTendering portal: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the EU supply eTendering portal at: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com
Candidates wishing to be considered for this agreement must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through this portal.
1) Go to ‘Current Tender Opportunities’ from the eTendering portal login page: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com
3) If you are not a registered user of EU Supply follow the ‘Online registration’ link otherwise follow the ‘Login’ link and enter username and password;
4) Once logged in ‘Accept’ the invitation to register your interest in the opportunity. You will then be taken direct to the tender response screen;
5) Go to the ‘Access Documents’ folder on the response screen to view and download tender documentation.

Eligibility requirements: This procurement exercise will be conducted on the EU supply eTendering portal at: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com Candidates wishing to be considered for this agreement must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through this portal. To register interest: 1) Go to ‘Current Tender Opportunities’ from the eTendering portal login page: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com 2) Find the tender listed and click on the title. This will take you to the letter of invitation; 3) If you are not a registered user of EU Supply follow the ‘Online registration’ link otherwise follow the ‘Login’ link and enter username and password; 4) Once logged in ‘Accept’ the invitation to register your interest in the opportunity. You will then be taken direct to the tender response screen; 5) Go to the ‘Access Documents’ folder on the response screen to view and download tender documentation. Further guidance on how to access and respond to the opportunity is available in the ‘Quick Guide for Suppliers’ which is available for downloading from the main portal login page: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com (follow link: ‘Quick Guide for Suppliers’). For any support in submitting your response please contact EU Supply Helpdesk at support@eu-supply.com (Tel: + 44 8008402050) quoting the tender ID number. Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU supply eTendering portal: https//nhssbs.eu-supply.com Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU supply eTendering portal: https//nhssbs.eu-supply.com Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU supply eTendering portal: https//nhssbs.eu-supply.com Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU supply eTendering portal: https//nhssbs.eu-supply.com
Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU supply eTendering portal: https//nhssbs.eu-supply.com Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU supply eTendering portal: https//nhssbs.eu-supply.com
Details will be included in the procurement documentation available for download from EU supply eTendering portal: https//nhssbs.eu-supply.com