NHS Messaging Services Contracts
Contracts may be directly awarded within lots 1 to 4. In Lot 5, contracts may be awarded only following a further competition.
United Kingdom-Dorking: Telephone and data transmission services
2016/S 158-286726
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of NHS Commercial Solutions
The Atrium, Curtis Road
For the attention of: Howe Derek
RH4 1XA Dorking
United Kingdom
Telephone: +00 0000000000
E-mail: derek.howe@nhs.net
Fax: +00 0000000000
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.commercialsolutions-sec.nhs.uk/
Electronic access to information: https://commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml
Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: https://commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml
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)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
See Section II.1.2)
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 5: Telecommunications services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: The public sector bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include, in particular, the following in the United Kingdom and their respective statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisations or organisational changes, and any private sector entities having similar procurement needs.
— National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including acute Trusts (including those operating community hospitals and the provider functions of the former Primary Care Trusts), Care Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, any of which may be an NHS Foundation Trust, and Clinical Support Units (CSU’s), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s), General Practitioners and General Practitioner commissioning consortia, Special Health Authorities and Area Teams. (See http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/NHSTrustListing.aspx);
— Health Boards, NHS Trusts, Community Health Councils and other constituent bodies of the NHS in Wales (http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure);
— NHS Scotland and its constituent bodies including: the Scottish Ambulance Service, Special NHS Boards and the other constituent organisations of the Scottish National Health Service (http://www.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/);
— Health and Social Care Trusts, Health Agencies and other constituent bodies of the Health and Social Care Service in Northern Ireland (http://online.hscni.net/);
— Local Authorities, a list of such authorities being available at: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/org/la-data.do and
— Social Enterprises and Community Interest Companies (CICs).
NUTS code UK
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
Framework agreement with several operators
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 4
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 0 and 10 000 000 GBP
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
64210000, 48512000, 64216120, 64212100, 79512000, 64212300
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
Information about lots
Lot No: 1 Lot title: Messaging services to mobile telephones
1)Short description
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
64200000, 64212100, 64212300
5)Additional information about lots
Lot No: 2 Lot title: Messaging services to computers
1)Short description
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
64216120
5)Additional information about lots
Lot No: 3 Lot title: Automated voice messages to a land-line or mobile telephone
1)Short description
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
48512000
5)Additional information about lots
Lot No: 4 Lot title: Agent calls to land-line or mobile telephones
1)Short description
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
79512000
5)Additional information about lots
Lot No: 5 Lot title: Multi-disciplinary Services
1)Short description
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
64200000
5)Additional information about lots
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
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 the requirements are met: Suppliers Instructions: How to Express Interest in this Tender: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://commercialsolutions.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 email with your unique password (please keep this secure); 2. Express an Interest in the Tender — Login to the portal with the username/password — Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open to All Suppliers’ link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier) — Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content — Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page — This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs’ page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) — You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’ box; 3. Responding to the Tender — Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason if declining) — You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT — There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available). You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help or contact the eTendering help desk.
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Please see the the Invitation to Tender documentation for details.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3)Additional information
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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