Tender: UK-Gloucester: analysers

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UK-Gloucester: analysers

2010/S 48-070781

CONTRACT NOTICE

Supplies

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Floor 3. Victoria Warehouse, The Docks, Contact: Procurement Department, Attn: Tim Jones, Gloucester GL1 2EL, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1452318852. E-mail: tim.jones@glos.nhs.uk.

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk.

Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
I.2)TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Regional or local authority.

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no.

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

II.1)DESCRIPTION
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Contract for the supply of chemistry and immunoassay analysers and a total laboratory automation system.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Supplies.

A combination of purchase, lease, rental and hire purchase.

Main place of delivery: Cheltenham Genaral Hospital and Gloucester Royal Hospital.

NUTS code: UKK13.
II.1.3)The notice involves:
A public contract.

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement:

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust' Chemical Pathology department is looking to procure chemistry and immunoassay analysers for the laboratories at Gloucester and Cheltenham and to provide a total laboratory automation system for Gloucester only.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
38434000, 38434500, 38434580.
II.1.7)Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8)Division into lots:
No.
II.1.9)Variants will be accepted:
No.
II.2)QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

II.3)DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

III.1.4)Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject:
No.
III.2)CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:

III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity:

III.2.3)Technical capacity:

III.2.4)Reserved contracts:
No.
III.3)CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1)Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
III.3.2)Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
No.

SECTION IV: PROCEDURE

IV.1)TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1)Type of procedure:
Restricted.
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
Envisaged minimum number: 3.
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no.
IV.2)AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1)Award criteria:
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.
IV.2.2)An electronic auction will be used:
No.
IV.3)ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
PT605/2010.
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
No.
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
14.4.2010 - 12:00.

IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:

IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:
English.

IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders:
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no.

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

VI.3)ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

VI.4)PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals:

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained: