Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-06-21
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: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products | 33680000 | 33692000 | 85149000
Estimated value: 1000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-07-13
Award criteria: Price, Quality

Technical requirements: Price
Quality
This tender is to establish a framework agreement for the supply of Aseptically Prepared Dose-banded Medicines. The scope of this framework agreement includes the provision of aseptically prepared dose-banded products including cytotoxic medicines and monoclonal antibodies for use in various treatment areas. Products will be in ready to administer forms in-line with standard dose-banded presentations. 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 to 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). (4) All NHS bodies in Northern Ireland (known as Health and Social Care), including but not limited to: (i) health and social care trusts (a list of which can be found at: http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=trusts); (ii) health agencies (a list of which can be found at: http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=agencies); (iii) hospitals (a list of which can be found at: http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=hospitals) and (iv) the Health and Social Care Board. (5) All social enterprises undertaking some or all of what were previously the service provider functions of contracting authorities in relation to health and/or social care services (including charitable incorporated organisations, cooperatives, industrial and provident societies and community interest companies as listed on the Companies House web-check service). (6) Ministerial departments and non-ministerial departments of central government, non-departmental agencies and other public bodies, and public corporations (a list of which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations). (7) Devolved governmental and parliamentary organisations within the United Kingdom, including but not limited the Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, and Scottish public bodies (a list of which can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies), as well as the Welsh Government, Welsh Assembly and Welsh unitary authorities (a list of which can be found at: http://wales.gov.uk/topics/localgovernment/localauthorities/?lang=en). (8) All local authorities (a list of which can be found at: http://local.direct.gov.uk/LDGRedirect/Start.do?mode=1). (9) All emergency services including police: (http://www.police.uk/forces.htm), fire and rescue services (a list of which can be found at: http://www.fireservice.co.uk/information/ukfrs), the maritime and coastguard agency and other rescue authorities. (10) All educational establishments (a list of which can be found at: http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase). (11) Registered providers of social housing on a not for profit basis (a list of which can be found at: http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/ourwork/registered-provider-information). (12) Registered charities (a list of which can be found at: http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities). (13) Her Majesty's Prison Service (as detailed at: www.justice.gov.uk/about/hmps) (14) The Ministry of Defence (as detailed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence). The above list includes each organisation's successors and assigns, any equivalent organisations and any associated organisations created as a result of any organisational changes. — Please note additional information is given about this tender exercise at Section VI.3)
Aseptically Prepared Dose-banded Medicines: The provision of aseptically prepared dose-banded medicines including cytotoxic medicines used within chemotherapy and monoclonal antibodies.
1 or more contracting authorities that wish to commit in advance to purchasing a particular value/volume or both of their requirements from Lot 1 may enter into a further competition to do so pursuant to this Lot on an aggregated basis.
This Framework agreement may be extended by HTE at its sole discretion for 2 further 12 month periods.
Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.
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 Regulation 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 59 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
The full terms and conditions of this framework agreement and any resulting call-off contract will be appended to the Invitation to Tender. These terms and conditions include provisions requiring payment by the supplier of an activity based income management charge in consideration of the award of this framework agreement and the management administration by HTE of the overall contractual structure and associated documentation, as well as the requirement to submit regular management information to HTE.
Submission of Expressions of Interest and Procurement Specific Information: This exercise will be conducted on the HTE portal. Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest as follows: Register on the HTE portal at: https://healthtrusteurope.bravosolution.co.uk Login to the portal with the username/password. Click the PQQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers link. These are the PQQs/ITTs open to any registered supplier. Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content. Click the Express Interest button at the top of the page. This will move the PQQ/ITT into your My PQQs/My ITTS page. You can access any attachments by clicking Buyer Attachments (if required in III.2.1.1). ii) in the PQQ/ITT Details box. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the PQQ/ITT. Submit your reply using the Submit Response button at the top of the page. If you require any further advice, contact the e-Tendering Help Desk.
HTE will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.

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 Regulation 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 59 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 Regulation 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 59 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Details are provided in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.