Tender for Supply of Homecare Services
Tender for the supply of and homecare services for subcutaneous biological medicines (Abatacept only).
UK-Leeds: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
2013/S 006-006483
Contract notice
Supplies
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Yorkshire and Humber NHS Pharmaceuticals Purchasing Consorita, c/o Pharmacy Dept, Moor House, 125 Moor Road, Hunslet
For the attention of: Amanda Stephenson
LS10 2JQ Leeds
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1133927016
E-mail: amanda.stephenson@leedsth.nhs.uk
Fax: +44 1133927019
Further information can be obtained from: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Yorkshire and Humber NHS Pharmaceuticals Purchasing Consortia, c/o website www.leedsth-tenders.co.uk
Contact point(s): Amanda Stephenson
LS10 2JQ Leeds
E-mail: amanda.stephenson@leedsth.nhs.uk
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Yorkshire and Humber NHS Pharmaceuticals Purchasing Consortia, c/o website www.leedsth-tenders.co.uk
Contact point(s): Amanda Stephenson
LS10 2JQ Leeds
E-mail: amanda.stephenson@leedsth.nhs.uk
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Yorkshire and Humber NHS Pharmaceuticals Purchasing Consortia, c/o website www.leedsth-tenders.co.uk
Contact point(s): amanda stephenson
LS10 2JQ Leeds
E-mail: amanda.stephenson@leedsth.nhs.uk
Section II: Object of the contract
Purchase
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: To various trust sites within the Yorkshire and Humber NHS Pharmaceuticals Purchasing Consortia and to patients own homes or preferred delivery location.
NUTS code UKE
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 5
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in months: 23
Justification for a framework agreement, the duration of which exceeds four years: 23 month period with an option to extend for up to a further 24 months.
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 925 000 GBP
33000000, 85100000
This tender is limited to the product Abatacept only.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 950 000 GBP
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Description of particular conditions: Compliance with the tender specification.
a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;
b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order compulsory winding up the administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations;
c) has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct;
d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contract authorities can demonstrate;
e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information;
j) has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities;
k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
suppliers are to complete details within the following website
http://www.sid4health.nhs.uk/home.action
b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
c) a statement of the undertaking’s overall turnover and, where appropriate , of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information of these turnovers is available.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
suppliers are to complete details within the following website
http://www.sid4health.nhs.uk/home.action
a) a list of the works carried out over the past five years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct;
b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given:
— where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issues or countersigned by the competent authority,
— where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser’s certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;
c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator’s undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work;
d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking’s study and research facilities;
e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body’s agreement, on the production capabilities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;
f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking’s managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;
j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.
Section IV: Procedure
Notice on a buyer profile
Notice number in the OJEU: 2012/S 152-254432 of 9.8.2012
Payable documents: no
Section VI: Complementary information
Expressions of Interest to participate in this tender must be obtained by following the below links to the trusts e-tendering portal at www.leedsth-tenders.co.uk
1. Browse to the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust e-tendering Portal: www.leedsthtenders.co.uk;
2. You will need to register on the system if you are not already. Help with the registration can be found at thebottom right hand side of the page – Supplier Guide How to do Business;
3. Once registered, Login to the system – help is on hand at the bottom right hand side of the screen again -Supplier Guide First time Login.
If you need support with any aspect of the registration, login or using the system the first point of contact wouldbe the help documents on the bottom right of the page. Failing that, please contact support at the top of thetendering page.
Please note Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is not liable for any costs incurred by the respondents to thisadvert or any subsequent tender exercise Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust reserves the right not to awarda contract if circumstances dictate. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust would welcome responses from Smallto Medium Enterprises (SME) as defined by the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform(BERR) capable of supplying all products and/or services detailed.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:7.1.2013