Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-12-06
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: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 33100000 | 33141700 | 33183100
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: HealthTrust Europe LLP is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of orthopaedic implants, used for the replacement, remodelling or realignment of joints and bone by osteotomy or some other procedure of joints. This framework agreement will include bespoke or patient specific implants as well as standard items included in the supplier's published catalogue. This framework agreement also includes the provision of necessary instrumentation; jigs and fixtures; tooling; cabinets and associated accessories to facilitate the relevant Arthroplasty and Arthroscopy procedures. The Framework Agreement also allows for the provision of loan kits; in-house and off site training and in-theatre support. The scope of this agreement includes the provision of consignment stock; managed inventory; loan stock and equipment and expedited deliveries.
HealthTrust Europe LLP is seeking to establish a lot for the provision of orthopaedic joint implants and the associated fixings, and accessories used for the replacement, remodelling or realignment of joints and bone by osteotomy or some other procedure. This lot will include: primary and revision joint implants; bespoke or patient specific implants as well as standard items included in the supplier's published catalogue. This lot also includes the provision of necessary instrumentation; jigs and fixtures; tooling; cabinets and associated accessories to facilitate the relevant Arthroplasty and Orthopaedic procedure. The lot also allows for the provision of loan kits; in-house and off site training and in-theatre support. The scope of this lot includes the provision of consignment stock; managed inventory; loan stock equipment and expedited deliveries.
HealthTrust Europe LLP is seeking to establish a lot for the provision of orthopaedic implants, used for the replacement, remodelling or realignment of joints and bone by osteotomy or some other procedure. This lot will include bespoke or patient specific implants as well as standard items included in the supplier's published catalogue. This lot will include those items which are used within surgical procedures involving orthopaedic trauma for example: external fixation (e.g. frames, hinges, fixators); extramedullary internal fixation (e.g. plates); hip fracture; (e.g. dynamic hip screws); instrumentation; intramedullary fixation (e.g. nails); osteonecrosis intervention; foot ankle; hand and wrist implants; and other.
HealthTrust Europe LLP is seeking to establish a lot for the provision of orthopaedic spinal implants, used for the replacement, remodelling or realignment of joints and bone by osteotomy or some other procedure. The lot will include the following categories of orthopaedic spinal products, accessories and associated products: access (e.g. retractors, frames; cable); disc repair and replacement; fixation; instrumentation; interbody spacers (e.g. cages); mesh; minimally invasive (e.g. kyphoplasty); plates; preparation (e.g. distractors, shavers, sets); screws, hooks and rods; specialty (e.g. dens and transverse fractures). Vertebral augmentation; vertebral body replacement; vertebral support; and other devices that can properly be described as orthopaedic spinal products.
This lot includes multiple lots of related osteotomy components and devices required for a comprehensive range of procedures and will include orthopaedic implants used in elective and trauma procedures. It will include tooling; the associated consumable tools; probes; blades; consumable cements and bone substitutes and theatre consumables. Lot 4 allows for a Mini-Competition of a consolidation of an aggregated demand of 1 or more lots in any combination thereof from a single supplier for a committed volume of goods or value of purchases from 1 or more contracting authorities.
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 conducting this tender exercise and will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. The bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the UK as defined in Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as may be updated from time to time. In particular, the following entities in the UK (particularly those of a health and/or social care nature) are envisaged as framework agreement users: All National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including but not limited to (i) acute trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/pages/acutetrustlisting.aspx ); (ii) health and care trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx ); (iii) mental health trusts.
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.


Number of bids: 17