Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2016-04-08
Buyer: The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 48480000
Estimated value: 180000 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The Trust is procuring access to a unique GP Database hosted and maintained by Doctors.net.uk (DNUK) for use by the Trust to gain access to 95 % of GP's across the UK and GP's globally, providing educational webcasts within the Cancer Insight Centre and promoting a digital relationship between GP's and the Trust by further promoting the Oncology Newsletter and gathering sign-ups for The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
—Doctors.net.uk (DNUK) is the largest authenticated network of doctors in the UK with over 53 000 GP members (estimated at 90-95 % of the total UK GP audience)
—The database provides access to over 2 000 000 doctors globally 1 in 4 GPs log in every day (12 000+). Therefore providing the Trust access to a far wider GP audience for our GP Education Days than the Trust could possible reach through their own direct marketing or through the creation of our own GP database.
— It is the only supplier which currently has access to the largest GP audience, accredited digital education and engagement programmes, display advertising, recruitment and market research.
— Promotion of the Services (GP Education programme) to the Target Audience (GP's) using a variety of promotional methods during a bespoke Campaign Period (usually 8 weeks before each event). This promotion will encourage doctors to view the educational events online, to engage with relevant service information, to download supporting materials and to visit The Royal Marsden website.
—They promote The Royal Marsden as the gold standard in cancer care to all their GP subscribers and build TRM's educational webcasts within the Cancer Insight Centre, to place TRM at the heart of cancer care on M3.
— Facilitate a digital relationship with The Royal Marsden by promoting our Oncology Update newsletter and gathering sign-ups.
— Doctors.net are part of a parent group M3 which means further access to an international audience which will be extremely beneficial to the Trusts private Care marketing strategy.
— In 2015 we moved onto a Cancer Insight Centre sponsored by our education partner CRUK and hosted by M3. We own the education section and have built up a brand equity on this site which is invaluable as is the partnership equity with CRUK.
— Webcast production — production and hosting of The Royal Marsden education day programme webcasts on the Cancer Insight Centre.
— CIC provides oncologists, haematologists, GPs and other medical professionals involved in cancer care professionals key information and a secure online forum where doctors can share information.
The Contracting Authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period (or 15 days where non-electronic or fax methods are used) at the point that an award decision is communicated to bidders. This period allows the unsuccessful bidders to consider the decision and highlight any errors in the award process. The award decision notice will specify the criteria for the award of the contract, the reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages, the name and score of the successful tender and the relative scores of the unsuccessful bidder. It will specify when the standstill period is expected to end or the date before which the Contracting Authority will not conclude the contract. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, set out the time frame within which aggrieved parties that have been harmed or are at risk of a breach of the rules may take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought within 30 days from the date when the economic operator in question first knew or ought to have known that grounds for the bringing of proceedings have arisen. The Court may extend the 30 day period in a particular case if it is considered that there is good reason for so doing, up to a period of 3 months from the actual or deemed date of knowledge of the economic operator. The court may order the setting aside of the award decision or may order the Contracting Authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may make a declaration of ineffectiveness or may order that the contract be shortened and additionally may award damages. The time limit for seeking such a declaration is generally 30 days from notification of the award (either by award decision notification or contract award notice depending on the circumstances) or otherwise 6 months. Any such action must be brought promptly and the intention to take action brought to the attention of the contracting authority to enable suspension of award proceedings.


Number of bids: 1