Contract Framework to Supply Toothbrushes to NHS Scotland

The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘the Authority’)
Gyle Square (NSS Head Office), 1 South Gyle Crescent
Contact point(s): Procurement, Facilities and Commisioning
For the attention of: Alex Little
EH12 9EB Edinburgh
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1698794410
E-mail: alex.little1@nhs.net

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: http://www.nhsscotlandprocurement.scot.nhs.uk/

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA11883

Electronic access to information: www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk

Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk

Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Body governed by public law

Health

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes

Golden Jubilee Hospital (National Waiting Times Centre Board)

NHS 24

NHS Ayrshire and Arran

NHS Borders

NHS Dumfries and Galloway

NHS Education for Scotland

NHS Fife

NHS Forth Valley

NHS Grampian

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

NHS Health Scotland

NHS Highland

NHS Lanarkshire

NHS Lothian

NHS Orkney

Healthcare Improvement Scotland

NHS Shetland

NHS Tayside

NHS Western Isles

Scottish Ambulance Service

The Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service

The State Hospital for Scotland

All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the Authority or other NHS organisation established pursuant to the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978) and any Integrated Joint Boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014

NP579/15 Children’s Dental.

Supplies
Purchase
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: All entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the Authority or other NHS organisation established pursuant to the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978) and any Integrated Joint Boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014.

NUTS code UKM

The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement

Framework agreement with a single operator

Duration of the framework agreement

Duration in years: 3

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Estimated value excluding VAT: 2 016 000 GBP

This contract framework is for the provision of dental products for the NHSS Child Smile programme. Including; Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Drinking cups including information leaflets.
It also requires the provision of Dental ‘Packs’, which include toothbrushes, toothpaste.
Note: Loose toothbrushes are printed with images.
Note: The buyer is using PCS-Tender to carry out this procurement process. Please note this is a separate website and if you are not already registered, registration will be required.

To access PCS-Tender, record your interest in this notice and access the tender documentation please visithttps://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk and search for project Code 8735 under ITTs Open to All Suppliers. Please use the Search/Filter function, then select Project Code from the dropdown. Please note that once you have expressed interest in the ITT it will move to your My ITTs area.

For further information on using PCS-Tender, please read the Supplier Response Guide:https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/esop/pts-host/public/pts/supplierhelppage/PCS-TSupplierResponseGuide.pdf

If you have already registered on Public Contracts Scotland and PCS-Tender and paired your accounts you can access PCS-Tender through your Public Contracts Scotland Control Panel.

33711710, 33711720

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes

This contract is divided into lots: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Indicative annual volume outlined below;
Loose nursery toothbrushes (banded in 10 s) — 597 000 eachs;
Loose primary toothbrushes (banded in 10 s) — 179 200 eachs;
Loose toothpaste (100 ml) — 155 250 eachs;
Feeding cups — 298 500 eachs;
Packs: Age 0 to 3 — 238 800 eachs;
Packs: Age 3 to 6 — 298 500 eachs;
Stickers for racks: — 10 800 pairs;
The budget for this Scottish Goverment funded programme is fixed at 504 000 plus vat per annum for the duration of the framework.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 504 000 GBP

Options: yes
Description of these options: One optional twelve month extension is available on this framework at the sole discretion of the Authority.
Provisional timetable for recourse to these options:
in months: 33 (from the award of the contract)

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)

None required.

See contract tender documents.

Prime Contractor.

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Economic operators should confirm that neither it, its directors, nor any person who has power or representation decision or control of the economic operator has been convicted of any of the offences detailed in Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012 and that the grounds detailed in Regulation 23(4) of the Regulations do not apply to the economic operator.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (1) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Minimum standards applicable as follows;
Product compliance to ISO 20126:2012 — Dentistry. Maunal toothbrushes (or equivalent)
Product compliance to ISO 11609:2010 — Dentistry — Dentifrices — requirements, test methods and marking.
EU COSMETICS REGULATION (EC 1223/2009) — Toothpaste compliance.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
See contract tender documents.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
See contract tender documents.

Open

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated below

1. Cost. Weighting 60

2. Functional characteristics. Weighting 30

3. Complaints management. Weighting 10

An electronic auction will be used: no

NP579/15

3.8.2015 – 12:00

English.

Duration in months: 3 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

Date: 3.8.2015 – 12:00

Place:

Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9EB

(SC Ref:400475).

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The Authority will notify economic operators who submitted a tender or (where no deselection notification has previously been made) applied to be selected to tender, of its decision to award the framework agreement which notifcation will contain among other information, a summary of the reasons why the economic operator was unsuccessful. The notification will incorporate a ‘standstill period’ of a minimum of 10 clear calendar days (or a minimum of 15 if the communication method used is not electronic) between the date on which the Authority despatches the notice(s) and the date on which the Authority proposes to conclude the relevant framework agreement. The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the framework agreement until the court proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of, or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The remedies that may be awarded by the courts before the framework agreement has been entered into include the setting aside of the decision to award the framework agreement to the winning tenderer(s). The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority after the framework agreement has been entered into will not affect the framework agreement unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the courts where the framework agreement has been entered into are limited to the award of damages. Economic operators are entitled to write to the Authority after receipt of the notification should they require further clarification. The Authority will respond within 15 days of such a written request, but it should be noted that receipt by the Authority of such request during the standstill period may not prevent the Authority from awarding the framework agreement following the expiry of the standstill period. Where an economic operator is dissatisfied with the Authority’s response to its request for clarification, or considers that the framework agreement has been concluded in breach of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012, such economic operator is advised to promptly seek independent legal advice.

18.6.2015