Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-09
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘NSS’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products
Estimated value: 1600000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The provision of a home delivery service on behalf of NHS Scotland for the delivery of Blood Clotting Factor Medicines to patient homes across NHS Scotland.
All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, and any integrated joint boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.
This framework agreement includes the dispensing and delivery of the prescribed medicines along with ancillary products, if required, to patients in their homes or other agreed designated delivery points, and to provide removal of sharps containers as detailed within the specification contained within the tender documentation.
This tender is for approximately 250 patients across NHS Scotland resulting in approximately 2 000 deliveries per annum. The number of patients and deliveries will vary through the duration of the framework agreement.
The authority intends to award this framework agreement as an unranked multi-supplier framework to an envisaged maximum of six (6) suppliers.
This framework includes the option(s) to extend for up to a total period of 24 months upon giving not less than three (3) months written notice, such notice to expire no later than the date the framework agreement is due to expire.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any situation referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
The turnover of the economic operator in respect of its most recent full financial year must have been equal to or more than 8 000 000 (GBP).
1) An extract from its audited accounts in respect of its most recent full financial year stating the turnover of the economic operator in respect of such financial year, such extract certified on its face by a solicitor or a chartered accountant as being a true copy of the original document; or
2) A statement certified by the economic operator’s auditors confirming the turnover of the economic operator in respect of its most recent full financial year.
Confirmation should be included in the Qualification Envelope of the ITT under the economic and financial standing.
(a) all of the goods supplied under the framework agreement must be stored in and distributed from a site holding an MHRA Wholesaler Dealers Authorisation which covers POM medicines;
(b) all of the dispensed goods supplied under the framework agreement will be dispensed in a pharmacy which at the time of dispensing is registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
(c) all of the pharmacist and pharmacy technician staff used to service this framework agreement will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
(d) the successful framework participant and any subcontractor(s) must possess valid certification of BS EN ISO 9001 or equivalent;

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any situation referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Award value: 1600000