Endoscopy Equipment Tender

Karl Storz Endoscopy Stack Systems and Fiberscopes.

United Kingdom-Kendal: Endoscopy, endosurgery devices

2014/S 203-360299

Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

This notice is covered by: Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority/entity

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Burton Road
For the attention of: Lesley Saunders
LA9 7RG Kendal
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1865592822
E-mail: l.saunders@leaseguardonline.com

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.3)Main activity

Health

1.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities

The contracting authority/entity is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract

Karl Storz Endoscopy Stack Systems and Fiberscopes.

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

Services
Service category No 1: Maintenance and repair services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

NUTS code UKD43

II.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

II.1.4)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Maintenance of Karl Storz stack system and fiberscopes on a fully comprehensive contract. The contract will be renewed on a 5 year agreement until 2019.

II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

33168000, 33168100

II.6)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

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

II.2)Total final value of contract(s)

II.2.1)Total final value of contract(s)

Value: 136 186,60 GBP
Excluding VAT

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

Award of a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (in the cases listed in Section 2 of Annexes D1, D2 or D3 as appropriate)
Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU in accordance with Directive 2004/18/EC
The Trust has researched the market and found that no company other than Karl Storz can provide the maintenance required. This is due to there being no company other than Karl Storz having the skilled engineers, or access to spare parts. Karl Storz also advised that they do not release their training manuals, as they do not want other companies to learn the required techniques to maintain the equipment.

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity

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

Section V: Award of contract

Lot title: Karl Storz Endoscopy Stack Systems and Fiberscopes

V.1)Date of contract award decision:

V.2)Information about offers

V.3)Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken

Karl Storz Endoscopy
415 Perth Avenue
SL1 4TQ Slough

V.4)Information on value of contract

V.5)Information about subcontracting

The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: no

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about European Union funds

The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

VI.2)Additional information:

VI.3)Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:

17.10.2014