Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-04-03
Buyer: Procurement and Logistics Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 33000000 | 34928480 | 44613800 | 90000000

Technical requirements: This procurement process is for the supply and delivery of various sizes of clinical waste disposal containers.
To include sharps, anatomical and pharmaceutical waste and a range of associated products to Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland.
Lot 1 Sharps Waste Disposal Containers and Associated Products and Lot 2 Clinical Waste Disposal Containers and Associated Products
This procurement process is for the supply and delivery of sharps waste containers and associated products to Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland. It is expected that the containers will be delivered to 2 regional warehouses for forward delivery to end users by the Procurement and Logistics Service (PaLS). In addition to the provision of a specified range of containers, the Contractor will be expected to deliver all service requirements associated with the contract including but not limited to; the provision of training and support on the safe use of containers to HSC staff and meet all delivery requirements of the contract including specified lead times.
To this end, it is the intention of PaLS, who will be facilitating this procurement process on behalf of HSC, to host a Supplier Engagement meeting with interested suppliers to have an open discussion regarding product ranges and potential approaches to this service. It is likely that the meeting will take place in PaLS, 77 Boucher Crescent, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, BT12 6HU, on Wednesday 1.5.2019. The date and time of the meeting will be confirmed with any interested party.
Time slots will be allocated to interested suppliers strictly by appointment. In order to participate, interested suppliers must contact PaLS no later than 15:00 p.m. (GMT) on Thursday 18.4.2019 by emailing grace.shannon@hscni.net
In your email, you should provide a brief overview of your company including a point of contact and indicate the lot(s) you are registering interest for.
This procurement process is for the supply and delivery of non-sharps clinical waste containers and associated products to Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland. It is expected that the containers will be delivered to two regional warehouses for forward delivery to end users by the Procurement and Logistics Service (PaLS). In addition to the provision of a specified range of containers, the contractor will be expected to deliver all service requirements associated with the contract including but not limited to; the provision of training and support on the safe use of containers to HSC staff and meet all delivery requirements of the contract including specified lead times.
To this end, it is the intention of PaLS, who will be facilitating this procurement process on behalf of HSC, to host a supplier engagement meeting with interested suppliers to have an open discussion regarding product ranges and potential approaches to this service. It is likely that the meeting will take place in PaLS, 77 Boucher Crescent, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, BT12 6HU, on Wednesday 1.5.2019. The date and time of the meeting will be confirmed with any interested party.
Time slots will be allocated to interested suppliers strictly by appointment. In order to participate, interested suppliers must contact PaLS no later than 15:00 p.m. (GMT) on Thursday 18.4.2019 by emailing grace.shannon@hscni.net
In your email, you should provide a brief overview of your company including a point of contact and indicate the lot(s) you are registering interest for.
It is envisaged that this tender will be advertised in July 2019. Potential tenderers are not required to respond to this prior information notice. This tender will be published on the etendersni.gov.uk website and all tender documentation including the full service specification will be made available via the https://etendersni.gov.uk/ website at that time. Potential Tenderers should register on this website to ensure they have access to tender documentation when the tender is published.