Urwashanza/europrocure-10-public-procurement huggingface dataset:
Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: Leidos Supply
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 24951210 | 24951220 | 24951230 | 35111000: Fire-fighting equipment | 35111200
Estimated value: 6500000 GBP

Technical requirements: Team Leidos are proud to be delivering the logistics commodities and services transformation (LCS(T)) Delivery partner contracts (LCS (T)/0001 dated 16 April 2015) on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence (the ‘Prime Contract’). Delivery of other parts of the LCS(T) contract are delivered by Leidos Europe Ltd (LEL) and other partners (together ‘Team Leidos’).
Team Leidos wishes to stimulate interest, information and views across the market for the fulfilment of this requirement via this PIN.
This prior information notice is not a means to submit a formal expression of interest in respect of any potential tender. Any resultant requirement will be subject to the EU Public Procurement Regulations and respective advertising action.
Please note all information provided to organisations or individuals that respond to this notice should be treated as confidential, and not shared further without express written permission from Leidos Supply Ltd.
The General Supplies team, which forms part of Leidos Supply Ltd. is considering the potential requirement for the supply of portable firefighting equipment and ancillary equipment on behalf of the UK MOD, consisting of multiple lots.
These lots have not yet been finalised, however will cover (but will not be limited to) the supply of portable firefighting extinguishers, spares support for in service extinguishers, extinguisher stands and cabinets, fire blankets, flight line extinguishers and training rescue dummies.
Please note: this PIN is for information only (market research) and is not a pre-qualification exercise.
In April 2015 the MOD signed a thirteen year contract with Leidos Europe Ltd to provide the procurement and inventory management of commodity items (as well as the storage and distribution services) historically provided in-house by the Logistic Commodities and Services Operating Centre. Leidos, working with the MOD, will transform the way these services are delivered to ensure requirements continue to be met whilst providing best value for money for the department. The organisation delivering these services is known as Team Leidos. Team Leidos would like to make interested suppliers aware that it intends to invite tenders for its supply and delivery of portable firefighting extinguishers and ancillary equipment.


Award value: 6500000
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: London Universities Purchasing Consortium
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33152000: Incubators | 33165000 | 33191110 | 38000000
Submission deadline: 2021-03-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: LUPC is tendering to establish a multi-provider framework agreement for the supply of general laboratory equipment. The requirement is covered through twelve lots, which include, but is not limited to:
• environmental monitoring general laboratory equipment, liquid handling robotics and automated laboratory systems.
This framework agreement will commence on 31 May 2021 for an initial period of 36 months, with the option to extend the agreement for up to 12 months (subject to satisfactory economic operator performance). The framework will be available to the members of LUPC, NWUPC, APUC, HEPCW, NEUPC, SUPC and named NHS bodies in England, as advised in the ITT.
As advised in the tender specification documents ITT Schedule 2b: Equipment type specification and ITT Schedule 3: Equipment model offer and pricing.
As advised in the tender specification documents ITT Schedule 2b - Equipment type Specification and ITT Schedule 3 - Equipment Model Offer and Pricing.
To supply a single source for all equipment defined in lot 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. As advised in the tender specification documents ITT Schedule 2b - Equipment type Specification and ITT Schedule 3 - Equipment Model Offer and Pricing.
As advised in the tender specification documents ITT Schedule 2b - Equipment type Specification and ITT Schedule 3 - Equipment Model Offer and Pricing.
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: London Borough of Hackney
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34300000 | 34350000 | 34352000 | 34900000 | 50111110
Submission deadline: 2021-02-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The London Borough of Hackney (LBH or the ‘Authority’) is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified contractor, to supply tyres and associated tyre maintenance and support services for the Council’s fleet of 480 directly owned, leased and hired commercial vehicles.
The term of the contract will be for a period of 3 years with an option to extend for a further twelve months subject to ongoing requirements, resources and performance.
The authority's requirements for this service span a variety of services including roadside support, supply and fitting of new and remoulded tyres and repair of tyres. In order to operate a seamless, coordinated approach to tyres and tyres services, the Authority is looking to appoint a single contractor to provide all elements of the service.
Subcontracting is acceptable, but the bidding supplier will be responsible for ensuring smooth and effective delivery of the contract.
The Council reserves the right to extend the contract by a further period or periods of up to 12 more months.
Tenderers who are unsuccessful shall be informed by the relevant authority as soon as possible after the decision has been made as to the reasons why the tenderer was unsuccessful. A 10 day standstill period shall be observed prior to the entry into a contract by the relevant authority.
If an appeal regarding the award of the contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by breach of the rules to take legal action. Any such action must be brought within the applicable limitation period. Where a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authorities to amend any document and may award damages.
If the contract has been entered into the Court may, depending on the circumstances, award damages, make a declaration of ineffectiveness, order the relevant authority to pay a fine and/or order that the duration of the contract be shortened.
The purpose of the standstill period referred to above is to allow the parties to apply to the Courts to set aside the award decision before the contract is entered into.
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: Procurement and Logistics Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33000000 | 33140000: Medical consumables
Estimated value: 1288000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-01-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Lääketieteelliset laitteet, farmaseuttiset valmisteet ja henkilökohtaiseen hygieniaan liittyvät tuotteet
In section 1.2 it states that this is a joint procurement and a contract award by a central body. This contract is awarded by a central body on behalf of the participants listed in section 1.


Award value: 1288000
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000
Submission deadline: 2021-01-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS), Welsh Blood Service (WBS), Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS) and Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) requires Apheresis Collection Systems providing the Authorities with systems to allow the collection of a single, double or triple adult therapeutic dose of platelets from one donor. The system must include all elements required, equipment, consumables, maintenance, training.
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS), Welsh Blood Service (WBS), Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS) and Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) requires Apheresis Collection Systems providing the authorities with systems to allow the collection of a single, double or triple adult therapeutic dose of platelets from one donor. The system must include all elements required, equipment, consumables, maintenance, training.
The contract period shall be for an initial period of 7 years from the date of commencement of the contract. The authorities shall be entitled, at its option, to continue the period of the contract for three (3) twelve (12) month extension periods.
As per Section 4B of the ESPD bidders must provide information on economic and financial standing in the section of the ESPD relating to this.
As per Section 4C (question 1.79.3 - 4C.1.2) of the ESPD bidders must provide information on services in the section of the ESPD relating to this.
Please provide relevant examples of supplies and/or services carried out during the last 3 years as specified in the contract notice:
Bidders should note that during the period of the contract EU Legislation will come into effect that requires blood collection packs to be DEHP free.
At present an exemption is in place from the regulation, and the anticipated sunset date for full implementation is expected to be by the end of 2024.
As this date is within the period of the initial contract period (1 March 2022-28 February 2029) SNBTS require to agree a mechanism for review of any potential price increase as a result of this.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The project code is 15343. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343
Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: East Dunbartonshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34121000: Buses
Estimated value: 1060000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-01-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 4A.1 If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established i.e. companies house.
The bidder response to these questions for economic and financial standing will be evaluated as follows:
Pass = response is compliant with the minimum requirement stated in the contract notice section III.1.2) Economic and financial standing.
Fail = response is not compliant with the minimum requirement stated in the contract notice section III.1.2) Economic and financial standing.
4B.1.2 Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of GBP 2 000 000 over the past 3 years.
4B.3 In the case that turnover information is not available for the given period please state the date on which the bidder was set up or started trading.
4B.5.1, 4B.5.2 and 4B.5.3. It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
4C.2. Bidders will be required to provide examples that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the goods as described in the Contract Notice or the relevant section of the site notice. A minimum of two contracts of a similar scope and nature which have successfully delivered in the last 3 years. Straight pass/fail.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=639500
The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

Eligibility requirements: 4A.1 If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established i.e. companies house.

Award value: 1060000
Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: Fife Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33000000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Lääketieteelliset laitteet, farmaseuttiset valmisteet ja henkilökohtaiseen hygieniaan liittyvät tuotteet
Fife Council is looking for suppliers who can supply medical aid equipment to our stores (FCES). Please see the attached lists of required medical aid equipment.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit PcsTender website Project 15959, https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.


Winner: Invacare Ltd
Number of bids: 22
Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: North Lanarkshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 33000000
Estimated value: 545000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Lääketieteelliset laitteet, farmaseuttiset valmisteet ja henkilökohtaiseen hygieniaan liittyvät tuotteet
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic resulting in unprecedented changes to standard operating procedures, the Council urgently required PPE for staff undertaking home care and personal services. The sourcing exercise determined abnormal market conditions, including: manufacturing and supply constraints; extended lead times; and, irregularly high pricing.
In accordance with 'The Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016', this purchase has been made in accordance with the 'Circumstances in which a contract can be awarded without competition', and relies upon exemption '6. — (1) A contracting authority may award a public contract without seeking offers in relation to the proposed contract— (c) where (but only if it is strictly necessary) for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the authority considers it must proceed to award a contract without delay.'
In accordance with 'The Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016', this purchase has been made in accordance with the 'Circumstances in which a contract can be awarded without competition', and relies upon exemption '6. — (1) A contracting authority may award a public contract without seeking offers in relation to the proposed contract — (c) where (but only if it is strictly necessary) for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the authority considers it must proceed to award a contract without delay.'
An economic operator that suffers, or is at risk of suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.


Winner: Streamline Corporate
Award value: 545000
Number of bids: 1
Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: Kent Fire and Rescue Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 35000000: Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: This procurement seeks to establish a national framework for the provision of Specialist PPE clothing and associated services to allow Fire and Rescue and other blue light services to procure items directly or via mini competition.
The aim of this project is to deliver a framework arrangement which allows Fire and Rescue Services, and other blue light agencies, to establish contracts for the supply of Specialist PPE which includes clothing and associated services used for the following environmental scenarios:
Any non-clothing equipment, such as torches, monitors and other ancillary equipment will be considered out of scope.
This Prior Information Notice is to inform the market that Kent and Medway Towns Fire and Rescue Authority is planning to undertake a national procurement process to deliver a framework arrangement that will allow for:
The authority is currently in the very early stages of the project and is engaging with potential customers to scope requirements and develop options for the structure of the framework arrangement. The authority also wants to engage early with Industry to share our early thinking and to garner feedback, which will be considered as we develop our requirements. The authority is therefore planning a programme of engagement sessions, starting with an initial supplier engagement event on 15 February 2019 in Kent..
Full details of the event and all associated communications shall be managed using the Kent Business Portal(www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/) and any interested suppliers are encouraged to register on the Portal toensure that they are notified of any updates.
Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘NSS’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33150000: Radiotherapy devices | 33151000: Radiotherapy devices and supplies
Submission deadline: 2020-12-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Greater Glasgow Health Board (more commonly known as NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) operates the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre (being the Gartnavel General Hospital and the Lanarkshire Beatson) and has a requirement to replace its treatment Oncology Management System, two treatment planning systems (TPS) and Radiotherapy DICOM Archive under the Scottish Government’s Radiotherapy Capital Equipment Replacement Programme (CERP).
Contractors may tender for any single, or multiple lots, up to and including all 4 lots. Separate tenders should be submitted for each lot. Contractors may submit more than 1 tender for any given lot. A single tender for more than 1 lot combined will not be considered.
Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2020-12-23
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: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33692000 | 33692300 | 85141200: Services provided by nurses
Submission deadline: 2021-02-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The participating authorities are seeking to award a contract for an enteral feeds service. The service will include the provision of pumps, feeds and ancillaries (including giving sets) to both acute and community sites, as well as associated services.
Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘NSS’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33150000: Radiotherapy devices | 33151000: Radiotherapy devices and supplies
Submission deadline: 2020-12-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Grampian Health Board wishes to procure one Medical Linear Accelerator (‘Linac’) for the delivery of radiotherapy treatments, in order to replace an existing linac. The Board also wishes to renew or replace its existing Oncology Information Management and Record and Verify System, as well as its treatment planning system.
Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: NHS South West — Acutes
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33141641 | 33151100
Estimated value: 240000 GBP

Technical requirements: Procurement of qty 5 Neoprobe main console model 2 400s, qty 14 Neoprobe bluetooth 14 mm probes, qty 6 Neoprobe 9 mm probes, qty 14 14 mm external collimators, qty 20 probe accessory cases.
Qty 20 gamma probes, consisting of 5 console/base units, 20 bluetooth probes — 14 x 14 mm and 6 x 9 mm.
This is an expedited process due to unforeseen failure within the existing supply route for disposable gamma probes. Bristol and Weston Purchasing Consortium were made aware of a stop to manufacture of disposable gamma probes in October 2020, when stock was already low. A solution is required in order to continue provision of critical cancer services from January 2021.
The Neoprobe is also considered to be the only reusable system available on the market which is fully compliant with North Bristol Trust's existing decontamination process, wherein each probe must be fully sterilised using STERRAD 100NX after every case. Neoprobe is deemed to be the only product fully compliant with the existing decontamination process.


Winner: UK Medical Ltd
Award value: 240000
Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: University of Strathclyde
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 5000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Directorate has mandated the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) within the University of Strathclyde to deliver the national decision support programme as a key element of Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Strategy.
DHI is conducting this market sounding exercise to help evaluate future sourcing options for a national decision support service. The project is working to a tight deadline and as such, we are requesting expressions of interest, at latest, by 14 January 2021. Suppliers expressing interest in this call will be asked to respond to a detailed set of requirements by 2 February 2021.
Individual suppliers may submit expressions of interest for all aspects of the service or may choose to work in partnership to share responsibility for different elements. One named supplier should be identified as the lead contact for partnership proposals.
The successful supplier will deliver a Once for Scotland decision support service for health and social care which provides two overarching components:
This will offer a single national toolset for building decision support products and integrating decision support with external applications. This toolset will support:
— a generic API interface to integrate algorithms and the rules engine with third party applications such as electronic health records – web-based and desktop client based;
— Middleware to map data inputs from external sources onto a standardised data structure for algorithmic processing;
— packaging of content and algorithms into decision support products, including apps and web resources.
Potential bidders are asked to note their interest against this PIN by COB 14/01/21. After this further details regarding the pre-tender market engagement will be released.


Award value: 5000000