Tender: UK-Nottingham: community health services

UK-Nottingham: community health services

2010/S 146-226146

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

  Attn: Tel. E-mail: re:source Procurement Hub
  re:source House, Millenium Way East, Phoenix Centre
  Gavin Hodgson
  NG8 6ARNottingham
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1159752400
  gavin.hodgson@resource-cph.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

  National or federal agency/office

  Health

  Social protection

  The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities Yes

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

• II.1)
  DESCRIPTION
• II.1.1)
  Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

  Provision of integrated community equipment service - Derby City and Nottinghamshire.

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

  Services

  Service category: No 25

  Main place of performance Tender in three lots.

  Lot one: Derby City.

  Lot two: Nottinghamshire County including Nottingham City geographical area.

  Lot three: Combination of lots one and two.

  Note: It is a requirement on any bidder wishing to bid on lot three that they must also bid on both lots one and two.

  NUTS code UKF1

• 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)

  The provision of an ICES to include equipment procurement, storage, delivery, installation, collection, decontamination, recycling, repair and maintenance. It will also include the provision and fitting of minor adaptations.

• II.1.6)
  Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  85323000, 85300000, 85100000, 85000000

• 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

  Yes

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

  As described in the specification.

• II.2.2)
  Options

  Yes

  description of these options: Contract extensions may be considered - 2 x 12 months each.

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

  Duration in months: 36 (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

  Parent company or other guarantees, bonds, deposits, insurance or other sorms of security may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to tender for further details.

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

  Re:source CPH reserves the right to require groupings of contractors to take a particular legal form or to require one party to undertake primary legal liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.

• 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

  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 supplier information

  Re:source CPH utilises 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 should register on Sid4health at www.sid4health.nhs.uk/home.action and submit their Sid4health company profile for publication to the system. 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 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. D&B data will be supplied automatically by D&B.

  (v) Once a candidate has ensured that all the required fields are completed and the profile has been validated. They must add the profile to the Request to Participate list (CPH04_124) . Select ‘View all request to participate lists’ 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).

  (vi) For further guidance please visit the following link, scrolling down to the suppliers guide www.pasa.nhs.uk/PASAWeb/NHSprocurement/sid4health/LandingPage

  (vii) 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 re:source CPH eTendering portal at www.resource.bravosolution.co.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 re:source CPH eTendering portal as follows:

  i) Candidates should register on the re:source CPH eTendering portal at www.resource.bravosolution.co.uk.

  ii) Once registered, candidates must express their interest as follows a) login to the re:source eTendering portal b) select "ITTs Open to All Suppliers" c) access listing related to this contract (titled Provision of Integrated Community Equipment Service - Derby City and Notts) and view details d) click on Express Interest button

  iii) Once you have expressed interest, please access the My ITTs page, where you can 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 08003684850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.

• III.2.2)
  Economic and financial capacity

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: 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.

• III.2.3)
  Technical capacity

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

  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.

• 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

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

  Open

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

IV.1.3)
Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

• 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

  Yes

  Re:source CPH reserves the right to use an electronic auction as part of the tendering process, if appropriate.

• IV.3)
  ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
• IV.3.1)
  File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

  EMCPH-10-801

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

  Prior information notice

  Notice number in OJ: 183877-2010 of 25.6.2010

  Other previous publications

  Notice number in OJ: 199279-2010 of 8.7.2010

• IV.3.3)
  Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

  Payable documents No

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

  10.9.2010 - 17:00

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

  30.7.2010

• 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

  Duration in days 90 (from the date stated for receipt of 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

  The services to which this notice relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3, Part 10 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) ('the Regulations'). Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authority intends to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to Part B services.

  The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

• VI.4)
  PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

VI.4.1)
Body responsible for appeal procedures

• VI.4.2)
  Lodging of appeals

  Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: Re:source CPH will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers and where the 10 day period expires on a Saturday or Sunday, or Bank Holiday, the standstill period will expire at midnight on the following working day. By way of example only, if the standstill notice is issued on Thursday that standstill period will expire at midnight on the next Monday but one.

  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).

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

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

  28.7.2010