Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-06
Buyer: NHS Tayside
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33140000: Medical consumables | 38000000
Estimated value: 3900000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-12-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Tenders are invited from suitably qualified contractors who wish to participate in a competition for the appointment of a single vendor agreement as part of the delivery of the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme. The agreement will be for 5 years for the supply and distribution of a quantitative Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kit per individual invitation, to be analysed on an appropriate automated test platform. This will be referred to in the documents as the complete FIT solution.
All bowel screening participant communication is carried out by letter. The requirements are therefore to provide a FIT solution that also takes into consideration both mailing of the test out to the participant and returning by mail back in to the laboratory. The FIT will be issued by post (via a third party outsource mail fulfilment supplier) and returned by post to the laboratory for testing. Each FIT will be required to be easily packaged to Royal Mail standards.
Tenders are invited from suitably qualified contractors who wish to participate in a competition for the appointment of a single vendor agreement as part of the delivery of the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme. The agreement will be for 5 years for the supply and distribution of a quantitative Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kit per individual invitation, to be analysed on an appropriate automated test platform. This will be referred to in the documents as the complete FIT solution.
All bowel screening participant communication is carried out by letter. The requirements are therefore to provide a FIT solution that also takes into consideration both mailing of the test out to the participant and returning by mail back in to the laboratory. The FIT will be issued by post (via a third party outsource mail fulfilment supplier) and returned by post to the laboratory for testing. Each FIT will be required to be easily packaged to Royal Mail standards and needs to contain the following information:
— information personal to the addressee consisting of: the NHS Community Health Index (CHI) number (10 digits), forename, surname, unique FIT identifier number and barcode, the word date (of sampling) and space for this to be written on the FIT by the participant. All of these details should be clearly readable when the returned test is booked into the Laboratory;
— a return prepaid packaging solution is required to be enclosed or be part of the packaging and this must meet Royal Mail standards,
— this information can either be enclosed in an accompanying letter or displayed within the mail packaging solution.
The Centre will manage the distribution of all correspondence via a third party mail fulfilment company. It is vital that the information within the kit number/barcode is translatable via an interface into the Scottish Bowel Screening IT system (BoSS).
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
4B.1.1 Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of GBP 1 560 000 for the last 3 years.
4B.2.1 Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of GBP 1 560 000 for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.
4B.5 It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
— All tendered products must fully comply with the NHS Requirement included within the tender documents.
— 4C.12 If awarded to the contract potential contractors must provide evidence that tendered products are CE marked. Evidence should be in the form of certification issued by a notified body.
1) The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent).

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Award value: 3900000