Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-09-09
Buyer: North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) (hosted by and acting through Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 33124100 | 33124110 | 33124130 | 33124131 | 33694000
Estimated value: 20000000 GBP

Technical requirements: This will be a framework agreement for pathology analysers/ analytical systems that produce pathology results along with associated products and services that are intrinsically linked to those analysers and analytical systems producing results (such as reagents, maintenance, training and all aspects of digital pathology etc). The framework will support ALL pathology disciplines and also include Reagent Rental and Managed Service Contracts for the Pathology Market that can include vendor neutral suppliers.
Outside of scope for this framework is manual identification products, rapid/ single use tests, POCT, lab consumables and general hardware such as microscopes and blood fridges however these could be provided through a MSC contract awarded under the framework agreement.
To discuss scope and this new framework, the NOE CPC is holding four open events as detailed below. If you wish to book onto one of the identical sessions, please email barbara.begg@noecpc.nhs.uk as soon as possible to confirm the session and number of places you require as places are restricted by the room capacity.
Session 1 Thursday 27.10.2016 9:30 to 12:30 The Source, Conference Room, 300 Meadowhall Way, Sheffield, S9 1EA
Session 2 Thursday 27.10.2016 13:30 to 16:30 The Source, Conference Room, 300 Meadowhall Way, Sheffield, S9 1EA
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: The following entities shall be eligible to become NOE CPC members in future and as such may utilise any resulting agreement(s) subject to the prior agreement of NOE CPC:
NOE CPC member bodies as listed at: http://www.noecpc.nhs.uk/our-current-customers, and any additional new CPC members for the duration of the contract, plus any other NHS/Public Sector bodies located in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, subject to the approval of NOE CPC, including but not limited to Acute Trusts, Foundation Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Community Health Trusts, Special Health Authorities, Health Boards, NHS
Commissioning Boards, Commissioning Support Units and other health organisations (Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), Health and Social Care Trusts (Northern Ireland), Community Health Councils, Local Health Boards, Social Enterprises, NHS Collaborative Procurement Hubs/Organisations, GP Practices, Primary Care Commissioners, Department of Health, Public Health England and Local Authorities (where Local Authorities are engaged in the provision or commissioning of health related services, for example (but not limited to) the fields of healthcare, social care, early years care and public health). For the avoidance of doubt the following is a list of our members on the date of publishing this notice:
Listings of the entities eligible to utilise any resulting agreement(s), subject to the approval of NOE CPC, can be found at:
http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/d-com/ and other organisations involved in commissioning of primary care services via Clinical Commissioning Groups — CCGs supported by the Commissioning Support Units — CSU's which will be responsible for commissioning most aspects of NHS care (or equivalent body/bodies established pursuant to legislation enacted as a result of, or in connection with, the White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS published July 2010.
http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx and other organisations involved in commissioning and/or overseeing General Practitioner services and GP consortia and GP Practices:
b) Commissioned by NHS England or other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing General Practitioner services, as described above.
NHS Wales (National Health Service for Wales) including but not limited to: Welsh Health Boards, Primary care services — GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, and community services, in cludingthose provided through community health centres and mental health services:
NHS Scotland (National Health Service for Scotland) including but not limited to: NHS Boards, Hospitals,Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, and community services,including those provided through community health centres and mental health services:
NHS Northern Ireland (National Health Service for Northern Ireland) including but not limited to: Health and Social Care Trusts, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, social care services and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: