Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-04-06
Buyer: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (‘UHCW’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 33140000: Medical consumables | 33141200 | 33141210 | 33141220 | 33141230
Estimated value: 100000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-05-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: HealthTrust Europe is looking to establish a framework agreement for the provision of endoscopy consumables and associated products, used in bronchoscopy, gastroscopy, colonoscopy and ERCP. The framework will cover a comprehensive range of products to include but not limited to, balloons, biliary ERCP, biopsy, catheters, cannulae, capsules/pill camera, cleaning equipment, clips, cytology brushes, dilatation, endoscopic ultra sound (EUS), enteral feeding, forceps, guidewires, haemostasis, ligators, metal stents, needles, plastic stents, snares, sphincterotomes and accessories.
There is a requirement for suppliers to provide ongoing product training and clinical support throughout the lifetime of the contract, to ensure safe, appropriate and effective use of products by clinical persons.
HealthTrust Europe is looking to establish a framework agreement for the provision of endoscopy consumables and associated products, used in bronchoscopy, gastroscopy, colonoscopy and ERCP. The framework will cover a comprehensive range of products to include but not limited to, balloons, biliary ERCP, biopsy, catheters, cannulae, capsules/pill camera, cleaning equipment, clips, cytology brushes, dilatation, endoscopic ultra sound (EUS), enteral feeding, forceps, guidewires, haemostasis, ligators, metal stents, needles, plastic stents, snares, sphincterotomes and accessories.
There is a requirement for suppliers to provide ongoing product training and clinical support throughout the lifetime of the contract, to ensure safe, appropriate and effective use of products by clinical persons.
HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the standard selection questionnaire ‘SQ’.
HTE is a central purchasing body who is able to carry out this tender exercise by virtue of its appointment as an agent of UHCW. Notwithstanding HTE’s relationship with UHCW, it is HTE conducting this tender exercise and will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. The bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the UK as defined in Regulation
Two of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as may be updated from time to time. In particular, the following entities in the UK (particularly those of a health and/or social care nature) are envisaged as framework agreement users:
(ii) health and care trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx),
(iii) mental health trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx),
(iv) clinical commissioning groups (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx),
(v) ambulance trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx),
(vii) special health authorities (http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx),
(v) NHS Wales shared services partnership (as listed at http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure);

Eligibility requirements: HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the standard selection questionnaire ‘SQ’.

Award value: 100000000