Lysosomal storage disorders home delivery service

The Secretary of State for Health acting through the Commercial Medicines Unit (part of the Department for Health)
Castle View House, East Lane
For the attention of: Karen Bell
WA7 2AA Runcorn
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1928794615
E-mail: karen.bell@cmu.nhs.uk
Fax: +44 1928794658

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: https://cmu.bravosolution.co.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)

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions

Health
Other: Public procurement

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

Home delivery service – Lysosomal storage disorders – national – CM/MSR/11/5275.

Services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Home deliveries to Lysosomal storage disorder patients who are treated by English NHS Trusts.
NUTS code UK

The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement

Duration of the framework agreement

Duration in months: 24
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Estimated value excluding VAT: 0 GBP

Framework agreement for the supply of Nursing support and products to treat patients with Lysosomal Storage Disorders by Trusts based in England. This will include nursing services, product, ancillary items and delivery elements. Framework to be for 24 months with an option to extend for up to an additional 24 months.

85149000, 85141210, 79624000, 85312200

This contract is divided into lots: no

Precise quantities are unknown and will depend on the number of suppliers appointed to the framework.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 800 000 GBP

Duration in months: 24 (from the award of the contract)

Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.

No special legal form is required but, if a contract is awarded to a consortium of economic operators, the members of that consortium may be required to form a legal entity before entering into the framework agreement and may be required to provide parent or directors’ guarantees or, if not required to form a legal entity, members of a consortium may be required to accept joint and several liability both to the Contracting Authority under the framework agreement and to other contracting authorities awarding contracts under the Framework Agreement.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Any supplier may be disqualified who does not respond to the following in the requisite manner:
1) Entering general PQQ supplier information
The CMU (part of the Department of Health) utilizes 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 must go to the following web page http://www.sid4health.nhs.uk/home.action. 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 that in addition to the mandatory fields/sections, the following fields/sections of their sid4health profile are completed to demonstrate their ability to meet the short-listing criteria applicable to this contract: National Framework for Home Delivery Service – Lysosmal Storage Disorder Products. Failure to comply with the completion of all mandatory fields could result in the elimination from the procurement process at this PQQ stage. D&B data will be supplied automatically by D&B. (notes 1, through to 5 below refer);
iv) (Option 2) 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 at this PQQ stage. D&B data will be supplied automatically by D&B. (notes 1, through to 5 below refer);
v) Once a candidate has ensured that all the required fields are completed for this PQQ and the profile has been validated. They must add the profile to the Request to Participate list ID T1200_252 and named PQQ_29026 Home Delivery Service – Lysosomal Storage Disorder Products – National – CM/MSR/11/5275. 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) Where access to Sid4health is unavailable, please contact the sid4health Helpdesk at: helpsid4health@eurodyn.com;

2) submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information.
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the CMU (part of the Department of Health) eTendering portal at www.cmu.bravosolution.com.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 CMU (part of the Department of Health)eTendering portal as follows:

i) Candidates should register on the CMU (part of the Department of Health) eTendering portal at https://www.cmu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register:

— Accept the terms and conditions and click continue,
— Enter your correct business and user details,
— Note the username you chose and click save when complete,
— You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure).
ii) Once registered, candidates must express your interest as follows:
a. Login to the CMU (part of the Department of Health) eTendering portal;
b. Select Response to OJEU advert and PQQ;
c. Select PQQs Open To All Suppliers;
d. access listing related to this contract pqq_29026 titled Home Delivery Service – Lysosomal storage disorder products – national – CM/MSR/11/5275 and view details;
e. Click on express interest button in the actions box on the left-hand side of the page.
iii) Once you have expressed interest, the PQQ will move to My PQQs, where you can download additional documentation (if required in III.2.1.1.ii above), and 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 8003684850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.

Restricted

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

An electronic auction will be used: no

CM/MSR/11/5275

no

Payable documents: no

20.4.2012 – 13:00

English.

This is a procurement for services specified in part B of schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (“Part B services”). Accordingly, and notwithstanding the advertising of this procurement exercise in the Official Journal, the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) (the “Regulations”) only apply in part. The procurement exercise will be conducted in accordance with the information contained in the tender documentation.
The Authority has voluntarily advertised this procurement exercise in the Official Journal, solely in order to reach as wide an audience as possible. The Authority has been constrained by the forms used by the Publications Office to describe the procurement procedure as “Restricted” but the Authority does not bind itself to conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Restricted Procedure, as described in the Regulations, nor to abide by any other part of the Regulations which does not expressly apply to procurements for part B services. Neither a reference during or after this procurement process to the Regulations or the use of language or terminology common to the Regulations shall require the Authority to conduct a full procurement in accordance with the Regulations. This notice is being placed for advertising purposes only.
If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Internet, and may also be through the medium of an electronic reverse auction. The contract is for the benefit of other participating NHS bodies (whether acting individually, or on behalf of, or together as members of any consortia) along with any other non-NHS bodies which the participants deem necessary for the delivery of services or goods to NHS bodies, local authorities, other government departments or non-departmental public bodies charged with the delivery of healthcare or health related services. Contracts awarded under a framework agreement may be awarded either: a) By application of the terms laid down in the framework agreement without reopening competition, or b) Where not all the required terms of the proposed contracts are laid down in the framework agreement, by reopening competition between the economic operators which are parties to this framework agreement and which are capable of performing the proposed contract. Reopening of competition will be done in accordance with the procedure set out in Directive 2004/18/EC, Article 32. The operation of the framework agreement will incorporate the reopening of competition between the economic operators which are party to the framework agreement so as to incorporate the effects of competition, and the effect on competition, derived from beneficiaries of and parties to the contracts under the agreement to include central purchasing bodies as detailed in Article 32 of Directive 2004/18/EC; collaborative purchasing hubs; confederations; purchasing consortiums; trusts and other incorporated and unincorporated bodies acting under the aegis of aggregate purchasing policies, and/or volume commitment/exclusivity commitment policies, and forms devolved to regional and local levels within the UK National Health Service (NHS). If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Internet. The contract is for the benefit of other participating NHS bodies (whether acting individually, or on behalf of, or together as members of any consortia) along with any other non-NHS bodies which the participants deem necessary for the delivery of services or goods to NHS bodies, local authorities, other government departments or non-departmental public bodies charged with the delivery of healthcare or health related services. Contracts awarded under a framework agreement may be awarded either a) by application of the terms laid down in the framework agreement without reopening competition, or b) where not all the required terms of the proposed contracts are laid down in the framework agreement, by reopening competition between the economic operators which are parties to this framework agreement and which are capable of performing the proposed contract. Reopening of competition will be done in accordance with the procedure set out in Directive 2004/18/EC, Article 32.; the operation of the framework agreement will incorporate the reopening of competition between the economic operators which are party to the framework agreement so as to incorporate the effects of competition, and the effect on competition, derived from beneficiaries of and parties to the contracts under the Agreement to include central purchasing bodies as detailed in Article 32 of Directive 2004/18/EC; collaborative purchasing hubs; confederations; purchasing consortiums; trusts and other incorporated and unincorporated bodies acting under the aegis of aggregate purchasing policies, and/or volume commitment/exclusivity commitment policies, and forms devolved to regional and local levels within the UK National Health Service (NHS).
Potential suppliers should note that, in accordance with the Government’s policies on transparency, the CMU (part of the Department of Health) intends to publish the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ), the invitation to tender (ITT) document, and the text of any framework agreement awarded, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the CMU (part of the Department of Health). The terms of the proposed framework agreement will also permit a public sector contracting authority, awarding a contract under this framework agreement, to publish the text of that contract, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the contracting authority. Further information on transparency can be found at:
http://www.ogc.gov.uk/policy_and_standards_framework_transparency.asp

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: 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). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may only award damages.

15.3.2012