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Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions
Health
Other Public Procurement
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities Yes

South West intravenous fluids and topical solutions.

Supplies
Purchase
Main place of delivery Trusts within the South West NHS Pharmacy region.

NUTS code UK

The establishment of a framework agreement

Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 2

Intravenous fluids and topical solutions to the South West region.

Yes

Yes
description of these options: Option to extend the period of the contract for up to an additional 24 months. Total maximum period of framework will be 48 months.

Starting 1.4.2011.

Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.

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 the framework agreement and may be required to provide parent 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.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Any supplier may be disqualified who does not respond to the following in the requisite manner:
1) Entering general PQQ supplier information NHS CMU utilizes the NHS supplier information database (sid4health) to manage and assess general pre-qualification information in the form of a profile. Candidates are requested to provide their profile in sid4health as follows:
i) Candidates must obtain a Dun & Bradstreet (D&B); D-U-N-S® Number to enable registration on sid4health. This normally is provided within 48 hours but may take up to 5 days*, so please ensure this step is completed as soon as possible. The D-U-N-S® number is the standard supplier coding for the NHS and must be obtained for use in all trading with the NHS. Check to see if your company has a D-U-N-S® number on the Sid4health registration page.

* The D-U-N-S® number registration turnaround time quoted is for UK subjects. Non UK subjects (businesses registered outside of the UK), should use www.dnb.com and choose the country in which the business is registered from the selection at the top of the home page and then search for DUNS request form. If unable to find a DUNS request form please contact the local Customer Services team. Turnaround times will vary from country to country.

ii) Candidates must go to the following web page http://www.sid4health.nhs.uk/home.action. Select the Register Organisation on the left of the page and then select Organisation type supplier. Key in details as shown to search for your D-U-N-S® number. If you are not on their database click on the link at the bottom of the page to obtain a number from D&B;

iii) Once registration has been authorised by the sid4health administrator and after receiving logon details, access the Profile Management area and create and validate your sid4health company profile. (Candidates must publish at least one validated profile to make their profile available for buyers to view generally – see the help page on sid4health within Profile Management for more details).
iv) Candidates should ensure that in addition to the mandatory fields/sections, the following fields/sections of their sid4health profile are completed to demonstrate their ability to meet the short-listing criteria applicable to this contract:
National framework agreement for various transition products. Failure to comply with the completion of all mandatory fields could result in the elimination from the procurement process. D&B; data will be supplied automatically by D&B.; (notes 1, through to 5 below refer);
iv) (option 2) Candidates should ensure all the mandatory fields of their sid4health profile are completed. Failure to comply with the completion of all mandatory fields could result in the elimination from the procurement process at this PQQ stage. D&B; data will be supplied automatically by D&B.; (notes 1, through to 5 below refer);
v) Once a candidate has ensured that all the required fields are completed for this ITT and the profile has been validated. They must add the profile to the Request to participate list ID’d T1200_135 and named itt_29253 South West intravenous fluids and topical solutions. Select - View IIT's open to all suppliers- on the left menu and search/select this list. Select the Join button to the right of the list and then select the validated profile to allocate to this procurement (you may have more than one validated profile as you may have different information held against your profile for different procurements) (Please note the number on the request to particpate list name should be the same as that generated by the Bravo ITT creation i.e. the itt_29253. It is easiest to copy and paste this straight from Bravo).

vi) Where access to Sid4health is unavailable, please contact the sid4health Helpdesk at: help@sid4health.nhs.uk.

2) Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information

This procurement exercise will be conducted on the NHS CMU eTendering portal at www.cmu.bravosolution.com.uk. Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information (if required) through the NHS CMU eTendering portal as follows:

i) Candidates should register on the NHS CMU eTendering portal at https://www.cmu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register:

— Accept the terms and conditions and click 'continue',
— Enter your correct business and user details,
— Note the username you chose and click 'save' when complete,
— You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure).
ii) Once registered, candidates must express your interest as follows:
a. login to the NHS CMU eTendering portal;
b. select Response to ITT's;
c. select ITTs Open To All Suppliers;
d. access listing related to this contract itt_29253 titled South West intravenous fluids and topical solutions and view details;
e. click on 'express interest' button in the 'actions' box on the left-hand side of the page.
iii) Once you have expressed interest, the ITT will move to 'My ITTs', where you can download the tender documentation, and construct your reply as instructed. You must then publish your reply using the publish button.

iv) For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact the ETendering Help-desk at +44 8000112470 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: As per requirements to complete sid4health profile - see III.2.1 for more information on how to complete sid4health profile.

Open

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

No

CM/PHR/10/5186

18.10.2010 - 13:00

English.

Duration in days 120 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Internet.
The contract is for the benefit of other participating NHS bodies (whether acting individually, or on behalf of, or together as members of any consortia) along with any other non-NHS bodies which the participants deem necessary for the delivery of services or goods to NHS bodies, local authorities, other government departments or non-departmental public bodies charged with the delivery of healthcare or health related services.
Contracts awarded under a framework agreement may be awarded either:
a) by application of the terms laid down in the framework agreement without reopening competition; or
b) where not all the required terms of the proposed contracts are laid down in the framework agreement, by reopening competition between the economic operators which are parties to this framework agreement and which are capable of performing the proposed contract. Reopening of competition will be done in accordance with the procedure set out in Directive 2004/18/EC, Article 32.
The operation of the framework agreement will incorporate the reopening of competition between the economic operators which are party to the framework agreement so as to incorporate the effects of competition, and the effect on competition, derived from beneficiaries of and parties to the contracts under the Agreement to include central purchasing bodies as detailed in Article 32 of Directive 2004/18/EC; Collaborative Purchasing Hubs; Confederations; Purchasing Consortiums; Trusts and other incorporated and un-incorporated bodies acting under the aegis of aggregate purchasing policies, and/or volume commitment/exclusivity commitment policies, and forms devolved to regional and local levels within the UK National Health Service (NHS).

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may only award damages.

26.8.2010