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UK-Edinburgh: pharmacy services

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   EDINBURGH
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:265476-2009
Publication Date:   Sep 24, 2009
Deadline:   Nov 3, 2009
Buyer:   SCOTTISH PRISON SERVICE
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   SCOTTISH PRISON SERVICE
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
United Kingdom
Web Site:   http://www.sps.gov.uk

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2210 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 184/2009, #265476-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Scottish Prison Service,
Calton House, 5 Redheughs Rigg, Contact: Procurement Policy and Services
Department (PPSD), Attn: Lisa Bain, UK-Edinburgh EH12 9HW. Tel. +44
1312445703. E-mail: lisa.bain@sps.pnn.gov.uk. Fax +44 1312445705.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.sps.gov.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: http://publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/
Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00384.
Further information can be obtained at: Scottish Prison Service, Calton
House, 5 Redheughs Rigg, Contact: Procurement Policy and Services
Department (PPSD), Attn: Lisa Bain, UK-Edinburgh EH12 9HW. Tel. +44
1312445704. E-mail: lisa.bain@sps.pnn.gov.uk. Fax +44 1312445705. URL:
http://www.sps.gov.uk.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
Scottish Prison Service, Calton House, 5 Redheughs Rigg, Contact:
Procurement Policy and Services Department (PPSD), Attn: Lisa Bain,
UK-Edinburgh EH12 9HW. Tel. +44 1312445704. E-mail:
lisa.bain@sps.pnn.gov.uk. Fax +44 1312445705. URL: http://www.sps.gov.uk.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Scottish Prison
Service, Calton House, 5 Redheughs Rigg, Contact: Procurement Policy and
Services Department (PPSD), Attn: Procurement Administrator, UK-Edinburgh
EH12 9HW. Tel. +44 1312445704. Fax +44 1312445705. URL:
http://www.sps.gov.uk.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
National or federal agency/office.
Public order and safety.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Pharmaceutical Services and Supplies.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 25.
Main place of performance: All publicly operated Scottish prison sites,
from Inverness in the North to Dumfries in the South.
NUTS code: UKM.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The foremost
aim of the Contract is to deliver a legally compliant pharmacy service to
all directly managed SPS prisons throughout Scotland in order to meet the
pharmaceutical care needs of prisoners to agreed professional standards.
The Contract will requires the Supplier to efficiently and
cost-effectively:
— supply all required medicines and pharmaceutical items,
— dispense and deliver the Goods to all SPS prisons, and
— provide a professional pharmaceutical service to the SPS.
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional
information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at
http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/
Search_Switch.aspx?ID=177894.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 85149000, 33600000.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: The SPS can extend the contract up to a
further 2 years after the initial expiry date.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 36 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Any consortium which is awarded a
contract must form a legal entity before entering into the contract or
each member shall be jointly and severally liable.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: No.
III.2) CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
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 requirements are met: (1) Any
candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any
information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to
continue with this procurement process.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (1) All candidates will
be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial
years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in
respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject
matter of this notice;
(2) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or
extracts from those accounts relating to their business.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
(1) Details of the educational and professional qualifications of their
managerial staff; and those of the person(s) who would be responsible for
providing the services or carrying out the work or works under the
contract;
(2) A statement of the principal goods sold or services provided by the
supplier or the services provider in the past 3 years, detailing the dates
on which the goods were sold or the services provided; the consideration
received; the identity of the person to whom the goods were sold or the
services were provided;
(3) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services
provider intends possibly to subcontract;
(4) A statement of the technicians or technical services available to the
candidate to carry out the work under the contract; or be involved in the
production of goods or the provision of services under the contract;
particularly those responsible for quality control, whether or not they
are independent of the candidate;
(5) A statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to
the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;
(6) A list of works carried out over the past 5 years, detailing the value
of the consideration received; when and where the work or works were
carried out; and whether they were carried out according to the rules of
the trade or profession and properly completed.
III.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
Yes.
Medicines Act 1968.
UK Health Act 2006.
Pharmacy order 2006 (Full details).
Pharmacy Act 1954.
Membership and, where appropriate, registered practitioners of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
Yes.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Open.
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria: 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.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
00839.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
3.11.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the
tender: Duration in month(s): 4 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT: Yes.
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 2012.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Note 1.
There is a possibility within the Contract Term that the responsibility
for primary healthcare services (including the Services) will transfer
from the SPS to relevant local NHS Health Boards. This is dependent on
securing legislative changes and the timing of this is not yet known.
Transfer could require:
— Assignation of the entire Contract to the NHS, or
— Migration of the Services to the NHS on a phased basis which would
result in a change to the Contract requirements, or
— The migration of the Services to the NHS on a complete basis which would
result in termination of the Contract.
Note 2.
The SPS works closely with other public bodies and as such has recently
been included in NHS NSS (National Health Service; National Service
Scotland) contracts for the supply of pharmaceutical goods. It is
anticipated that the successful supplier for this Contract (SPS Reference
00839) will be able to access these Goods where this supply chain provides
the most economically advantageous supply solution.
(SC Ref:177894).
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 22.9.2009.
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