Tender: UK-Teddington: medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

UK-Teddington: medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

2010/S 48-070794

CONTRACT NOTICE

Supplies

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

• I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

  NPL Management Ltd t/a/ National Physical laboratory, Hampton Road, Contact: Sue Gibbons, Teddington TW11 0LW, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 2089436119. E-mail: sue.gibbons@npl.co.uk.

  Internet address(es):

  General address of the contracting authority: http://www.npl.co.uk.

  Address of the buyer profile: http://www.npl.co.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:

  Other: Govt owned Research laboratory.

  Other: Scientific research.

  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:

  ESI Mass spectrometer.

• II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:

  Supplies.

  Purchase.

  Main place of delivery: Teddington Middx UK.

• 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):

  A high Specification ESI Mass spectrometer with a range of source interfaces (DESI, ESI and AP-MALDI) and MS for the definition of unknowns.

• II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

  33000000.

• II.1.7)Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

  No.

• II.1.8)Division into lots:

  No.

• II.1.9)Variants will be accepted:

  Yes.

• II.2)QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
• II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

  Supply of instrument and ongoing Service and support.

II.2.2)Options:

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

  Duration in months: 6 (from the award of the contract).

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

III.1)CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT

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:

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:

III.3)CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS

III.3.1)Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:

III.3.2)Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:

SECTION IV: PROCEDURE

• IV.1)TYPE OF PROCEDURE
• IV.1.1)Type of procedure:

  Competitive dialogue.

• IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:

  Envisaged minimum number: 3. Maximum number: 8

  Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: Technical capability.

• 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 yes.

• 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:

  sg/11333/0310.

• IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:

  No.

• IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:

  Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 30.3.2010.

  Payable documents: no.

• IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

  30.3.2010.

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

  5.4.2010.

• 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:

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

• VI.1)THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT:

  No.

• VI.2)CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:

  No.

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:

• VI.5)DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

  5.3.2010.