Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-12-19
Buyer: Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 15880000 | 33140000: Medical consumables | 33692300 | 42122411 | 85112200
Estimated value: 4500000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The provision of enteral feeds and associated nutrition supply services including feeds, pumps, ancillaries and a home delivery service.
The Trusts wish to appoint a supplier(s) of enteral feeds, associated equipment and product related nursing services for patients. This contract is for a product delivery service to patients at hospital, home or at their usual place of residence. The contract will cover the supply of enteral feeds and oral nutrition supplements, feeding pumps and their associated maintenance and support,the plastics and consumables for the enteral feeding products. In addition, the successful supplier will be required to offer on-going nursing advice and assistance to professional staff, patients, their family and other carers where necessary, the details of which are explained in the ITT document.
Enteral feeds, associated equipment and product related nursing services for patients. This contract is for a product delivery service to patients at hospital, home or at their usual place of residence. The contract will cover the supply of enteral feeds and oral nutrition supplements, feeding pumps and their associated maintenance and support, the plastics and consumables for the enteral feeding products. In addition, the successful supplier will be required to offer on-going nursing advice and assistance to professional staff, patients, their family and other carers where necessary, the details of which are explained in the ITT document.
This contract will not be divided into lots. The Trusts wish to provide a seamless service between acute and community settings, as patients transition from paediatric to adult care and hospital to home. This will avoid changes to products and suppliers and will also reduce potential confusion between products in different settings.
The details of the value or proportion of the contract likely to be subcontracted to third parties are with held as they are subject to extensive confidentiality obligations owed to the supplier.
Please note the contract commencement date is 1.4.2017 not the period of work start date of 14.12.2017 stated in the contracts finder publication details (as an inflexibility of the system for dispatch of the publication of the award notice in contracts finder does not permit the period of work start date to be earlier than the dispatch of the publication so, as a workaround, to permit publication in contracts finder, the dispatch date is stated as the period of work start date for that purpose).
The Authority incorporated a minimum of 10 day standstill period from the day after information on the award of contract was communicated to tenderers. This period was to allow the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge or seek further debriefing from the Contracting Authority before the contract was entered into.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into, the contract award proceedings will be immediately suspended.


Winner: Nutricia Limited
Award value: 4500000
Number of bids: 2