Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-03
Buyer: Public Health England
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33190000
Estimated value: 1000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-12-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Public Health England (PHE) is working with the 5 Cancer Screening Hubs in order to identify a provider who is able to provide a responsive, flexible and cost effective solution to the NHS across England for the implementation of the Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
The contract will be awarded to one provider who may act as either the sole provider or lead provider with sub-contracting arrangements in place.
Consortium bids are acceptable but the authority may require the consortium to incorporate a special purpose vehicle and provide parent company guarantees.
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the In-tend eTendering portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home
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://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home
This will provide you with a full list of current tender opportunities. For the project you are interested in click on ‘View Details’ in the initial project view.
2) If you are not a registered user of In-tend follow the ‘Register’ tab otherwise follow the ‘Login’ link and enter email address and password.
3) From this tender management screen you will be presented will a fuller overview of the project and if interested you are able to ‘Express Interest’.
‘Expressing interest’ is not responding to the project, you will now have to complete the questionnaire and submit your response within the time-scales indicated.
4) Go to the ‘Tenders’ section and click on ‘My Tenders’, click on ‘View Details’ within the project you are interested and you will now be able access attached documents and questionnaires that require completing as part of your response. Any sections indicated in red are awaiting your completion.
Further guidance on how to access and respond to the opportunity is available in the ‘Guidance for Suppliers’ tab which is available for downloading from the main portal login page: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/BuyerProfiles
For any support in submitting your response please contact In-tend Support team at support@in-tend.co.uk (or call 0845 557 8079/+44 (0)114 4070056.
NOE CPC will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar standstill period at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers, in accordance with Regulation 87 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
Any tenderer wishing to appeal the decision to award the contract, or after the award of the contract appeal the award of the contract, shall have the rights set out in Part 3 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

Eligibility requirements: See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire/Invitation to Tender. See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire/Invitation to Tender. See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire/Invitation to Tender.
See Pre-Qualification Questionnaire/Invitation to Tender.