Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-01-06
Buyer: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (‘UHCW’)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products
Submission deadline: 2016-02-10
Award criteria: Price, Quality, Delivery performance, Risk, Overall cost effectiveness

Technical requirements: Price
Quality
Delivery performance
Risk
Overall cost effectiveness
This tender is to establish a framework agreement for the supply of Wholesaler Pharmaceuticals for delivery to Trusts, Hospitals, GP Surgeries, Community Hospitals and other health facilities in the health economy.
Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.
Any legal form which results in joint and several liability amongst its constituent economic operators.
A supplier may be disqualified in accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
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 that will conduct this tender exercise and will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. This tender exercise is for the benefit of all the public and voluntary bodies listed further below in this Section II.1.5).
For the avoidance of doubt, UHCW is not carrying out this tender — your contact point is HTE using the details given in Section I.1). The public and voluntary sector bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the United Kingdom as defined in Regulation 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as well as all contracting authorities and entities in the European Union as defined in the Annexes to Commission Decision 2008/963/EC as may be updated from time to time. In particular, it is envisaged that this framework agreement will be used by the following entities in the United Kingdom as described below (particularly where such entities are of a health and/or social care nature): (1) All National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including but not limited to (i) acute trusts (a list of which can be found at http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/pages/acutetrustlisting.aspx); (ii) health and care trusts (a list of which can be found at http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx); (iii) mental health-trusts (a list of which can be found at http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx); (iv) clinical commissioning groups (a list of which can be found at http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx); (v) ambulance trusts (a list of which can be found at http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AmbulanceTrustListing.aspx); (vi) area teams (a list of which can be found at http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx); (vii) special health authorities (http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing. aspx); (viii) NHS England (formerly the NHS Commissioning Board); and (ix) clinical senates and strategic clinical networks.
(2) All NHS bodies in Wales, including but not limited to all (i) health boards; (ii) NHS trusts; (iii) the national delivery group; (iv) community health councils; and (v) NHS Wales shared services partnership (a list of which can be found at http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure).
(3) All NHS bodies in Scotland, including but not limited to (i) NHS trusts; (ii) Special NHS Boards; and (iii) national and support organisations (a list of which can be found at http://www.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/nat_orgs.aspx).

Eligibility requirements: A supplier may be disqualified in accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.