Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-01
Buyer: The Secretary of State for Health acting as part of the Crown through the Commercial Medicines Unit (part of the Department of Health)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 33600000: Pharmaceutical products | 33651000 | 33690000
Estimated value: 16000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-07-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: To a location in England to be notified to the successful bidder(s) following award to framework agreement.
This procurement exercise is intended to establish a framework agreement against which Public Health England would call-off their requirements for the stockpile of emergency medicines. This includes the provision of: ciprofloxacin (tablets, suspension and injection), doxycycline and gentamicin. The duration of the framework agreement is 2 years with an option to extend for up to a further 2 years.
Each individual product description is deemed to be a separate lot for the application of the award criteria. There is no restriction on the number of lots that bidders can offer, or be awarded NUTS code for each lot is UK.
Each individual product description i.e. ciprofloxacin tablets, ciprofloxacin suspension, ciprofloxacin injection, doxycycline and gentamicin is deemed to be a separate lot for the application of the award criteria. There is no restriction on the number of lots that bidders can offer, or be awarded.
Please refer to the PQQ evaluation approach document which can be accessed once you have expressed an interest within the Bravo portal under ‘Strategic stockpile of medicines 2017’.
No special legal form is required but, if a contract is awarded to a consortium of economic operators, the members of that consortium may be required to form a legal entity before entering into a Framework Agreement and may be required to provide parent company or directors' guarantees or, if not required to form a legal entity, members of a consortium may be required to accept joint and several liability both to the Contracting Authority under the Framework Agreement and to other contracting authorities awarding contracts under the Framework Agreement.
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the eTendering portal at: www.cmu.bravosolution.co.uk Candidates wishing to be considered for this procurement exercise must register, and provide additional procurement specific information (if requested), through the eTendering portal as follows:
1.1) If not already registered, Candidates should register on the eTendering portal at: https://www.cmu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register:
d. Access listing related to this procurement ‘Strategic stockpile of medicines 2017’ and view details;
f. Once you have expressed interest, the PQQ will move to ‘My PQQs’, where you can download additional documentation (if required), and construct your reply as instructed. You must then publish your reply using the ‘Publish’ button.
1.3) For any support in registering on the portal or submitting your expression of interest please contact the eTendering help desk at. +44 800 368 4850 or: help@bravosolution.co.uk
To manage and assess supplier information the Contracting Authority requests candidates provide their company profile in the Governments supplier information database, sid4gov, as follows:
2.1) If not already registered, Candidates must go to the following web page: https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ and select ‘Register for sid4gov’ at the bottom of the page. Key in details as requested to search for your company. If you do not have a D-U-N-S® Number, click on the link at the right of the page to obtain a number from D&B. Candidates must obtain a Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) D-U-N-S® Number to enable registration on sid4gov.
2.2) Once registration is complete you are able to create and update your sid4gov company profile. Candidates should ensure all the mandatory fields of their sid4gov profile are completed and up to date for each procurement exercise. D&B data will be supplied automatically by D&B.
2.3) For further help or information concerning sid4gov, please contact the sid4gov help desk at: support@nqc.com or telephone. +44 (0) 845 299 2994.

Eligibility requirements: Please refer to the selection criteria contained in the PQQ. Please refer to the selection criteria contained in the PQQ.
Please refer to the selection criteria contained in the PQQ.