United Kingdom-Birmingham: Medical equipments

Type of document: Invitation to tender
Country: United Kingdom
OJEU Ref: (2017/S 187-382438/EN)
Nature of contract: Supply contract
Procedure: Open procedure
Regulation of procurement: EU – with participation by GPA countries
Type of bid required: Global bid

Contract notice
Supplies
Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Official name: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (‘UHCW’)
Postal address: 19 George Road, Edgbaston
Town: Birmingham
Postal code: B15 1NU
Country: United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 08458875000
Email: John.Holmes@HTEPG.com
Internet address(es):
Main address:

The contract is awarded by central purchasing body
I.3) Communication
Access to the procurement documents is restricted.Further information can be obtained at:
Additional information can be obtained from:
the above mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted:
electronically via:
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health

Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title: GPO — Pulse Lavage Products.
II.1.2) Main CPV code: 33100000
II.1.3) Type of contract: Supplies
II.1.4) Short Description: The Tender is to establish a Framework Agreement for the supply of Single Use Pulse Lavage devices, consumables and related services. The Framework will provide a range of consumable products to include disposable pulse lavage devices, tubing, tips, nozzles and other products properly described as Pulse Lavage.
The Framework Agreement will also include training and clinical support for implementation and through the lifetime of the contract. This will be a committed volume exercise for defined Trusts, and is an exercise to award a call-off contract for a number of stated NHS Trusts with the ability thereafter to add additional beneficiaries on a direct award basis provided that those beneficiaries can meet the commitment terms and conditions required.
The duration will be 12 months, with the option of extending for 2 individual periods of 12 months.
II.1.5) Estimated total value:
Value excluding VAT: 322000 Currency: GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots:
The contract is divided into lots: no
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
Nuts code: UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement:
The Tender is to establish a Framework Agreement for the supply of Single Use Pulse Lavage devices, consumables and related services. The Framework will provide a range of consumable products to include disposable pulse lavage devices, tubing, tips, nozzles and other products properly described as Pulse Lavage.
The Framework Agreement will also include training and clinical support for implementation and through the lifetime of the contract.
Terms And Conditions / Activity Based Income (ABI) The terms and conditions of this framework agreement and any resulting call-off contract is appended to the ITT. These terms include provisions requiring the payment by the supplier of an ABI management charge in consideration of the award of this framework agreement, the management and administration by HTE of the overall contract structure and associated documentation, as well as the requirement to submit regular management information to HTE.
Submission Of Expressions Of Interest And Procurement Information This exercise will be conducted on the HTE Bravo portal. Candidates wishing to be considered must register expressions of interest as follows: Register on the HTE portal at
Login to the portal with username/password. Click the PQQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers link. These are the PQQs/ITTs 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. You can access any attachments by clicking Buyer Attachments in the PQQ/ITT Details box. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ITT. Submit your reply using the Submit Response button at the top of the page. If you require any further advice, contact the Bravo e- Tendering Help Desk at help@bravosolution.co.uk. Sid4Gov HTE utilises the sid4gov supplier information database. Candidates should register on sid4gov at and submit their sid4gov company profile for publication on the database. Candidates already registered on sid4gov must ensure information is up to date.
Where access to sid4gov is unavailable, please contact the sid4gov helpdesk at sid4gov@gps.gsi.gov.uk.
Please note that sid4gov does not prepopulate any fields of the HTE Bravo portal. Candidates must complete the Qualification & Technical Envelopes in Bravo in full.
II.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.7) Duration of the contract,framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 12
This contract is subject to renewalyes Description of renewals:2 Extensions of up to 12 months each.

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: no
II.2.11) Information about options
Options yes
Description of options: 2 Extensions of up to 12 months each.

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:no

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.2) Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria: HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 56 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability:
List and brief description of selection criteria: HTE may request such information as may be requested pursuant to Regulation 56 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure:
Open procedure
IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Framework agreement with several operators
IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement(GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date: 2017-10-26
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:EN
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening tenders
Date: 2017-10-26 Local time: 17:00

Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence:
This is a recurrent procurement: no
IV.2) Information about electronic workflows
VI.3) Additional information:
HTE is a central purchasing body who is able to carry out this tender exercise by virtue of its appointment as an
agent of UHCW. Notwithstanding HTE’s relationship with UHCW, it is HTE conducting this tender exercise and
will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. The bodies to whom the use of this
framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the UK as defined in Regulation 2 of the
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as may be updated from time to time. In particular, the following entities in
the UK (particularly those of a health and/or social care nature) are envisaged as framework agreement users:
(1) All National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including but not limited to (i) acute trusts (as listed at:
); (ii) health and care trusts (as listed at:
); (iii) mental
health trusts (as listed at: ); (iv)
clinical commissioning groups (as listed at: ); (v)
ambulance trusts (as listed at: (vi) area
teams (as listed at: ); (vii) special health
authorities ();
(viii) NHS England; and (ix) clinical senates and strategic clinical networks. (2) All NHS bodies in Wales, including
but not limited to all (i) health boards; (ii) NHS trusts; (iii) the national delivery group; (iv) community health
councils; and (v) NHS Wales shared services partnership (as listed at
(3) All NHS bodies in Northern Ireland (known as Health &
Social Care), including but not limited to:(i) health and social care trusts (as listed at:
(ii) health agencies (as listed at: +agencies
(iii) hospitals (as listed at: ; and (iv) the Health and Social Care Board. (4)
Social enterprises undertaking some or all of the previous service provider functions of contracting authorities
in relation to health and/or social care services (including charitable incorporated organisations, cooperatives,
industrial and provident societies
and community interest companies listed on the Companies House WebCheck service).
(5) Ministerial departments and non-ministerial departments of central government, non-departmental agencies
and other public bodies, and public corporations (as listed at: ).
(6) Devolved governmental and parliamentary organisations within the UK, including but not limited to the
Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, and Scottish public bodies (as listed at:
), as
well as the Welsh Government, Welsh Assembly and Welsh unitary authorities (as listed at:
works/Pages/governance-of-wales.aspx
(7) All local authorities (as listed at: ) (8) The Ministry
of Defence (as detailed at:). This list
includes each organisation’s successors and assigns, any equivalent organisations and associated organisation
created due to any organisational changes.
This framework agreement will be open to any bodies or organisations operating in the UK of a health, and/or
social care nature or which have a similar procurement need, and/or any UK based central government authority
listed at Annex I of Directive 2014/24/EU, in respect of any goods or services to any of the above listed organisation.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Official name: Legal Department, HealthTrust Europe
Postal address: 19 George Road
Town: Birmingham
Postal code: B15 1NU
Country: United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 8458875000

VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
HTE will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:2017-09-26