Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-01-10
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (“NSS")
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33110000: Imaging equipment for medical use | 33111000: X-ray equipment | 33111400 | 33111500 | 33111600
Estimated value: 120400000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Framework Agreement for the supply, installation, and/or maintenance of diagnostic imaging equipment including but not limited:
— digital systems for scoliosis ultrasound and bladder scanners. Also included is the installation of equipment (including pre-installation works undertaken as a turnkey contract with the equipment supplier) and the servicing and maintenance of the aforementioned equipment including servicing by 3rd parties. Also included is the repair of ultrasound transducers and the supply of contrast injectors and associated consumables and mammography biopsy devices and associated consumables.
Framework Agreement for the supply, installation, and/or maintenance of contrast injectors and the supply of syringes and other consumables that are used with contrast injector systems for use with diagnostic imaging equipment.
Framework Agreement for the supply, installation, and/or maintenance of mammography vacuum devices and/or the supply of associated consumables.
Supply, Installation (including pre-installation works undertaken as a turnkey contract with the equipment supplier)and maintenance of Diagnostic Imaging equipment including but not limited to X-Ray, Computed Radiography, Angiography, Fluoroscopy, Lithotripsy, CT, MR, PET/CT, Mammography, Lithotripter, Interventional, Dental, Bone Densitometry, Image Intensifiers, Nuclear Imaging, Specimen cabinets, Scoliosis Imaging Systems and Ultrasound.
Scottish Hospices and the following further authorities: Scottish Further Education Colleges and Higher Education Institutions and members of Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC Ltd).
The common services agency (more commonly known as National Services Scotland) (“the Authority”) acting through its division procurement, Commissioning and facilities, is undertaking this procurement of diagnostic imaging equipment, supply, maintenance and installation (“Products and Services”) on behalf of all entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, (i.e. authority or other NHS Organisation established pursuant to the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978), any integrated Join Boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014 and all NHS Scotland Dental and Orthodontic Practices which are members from time to time of the DenPro collaborative purchasing scheme managed by NSS National Procurement. (Information about Denpro is at all NHS Scotland Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the http://www.nhsdenpro.org/) (collectively hereafter referred to as “Participating Authorities”), where applicable.
The bringing of court proceedings against the authority after the Framework Agreement has been entered into will not affect the Framework Agreement unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the courts where the Framework Agreement has been entered into are limited to the award of damages.


Winner: Canon Medical Systems Ltd
Award value: 120400000
Number of bids: 8