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Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   LONDON
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:323214-2009
Publication Date:   Nov 21, 2009
Deadline:   Dec 21, 2009
Buyer:   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
LONDON
United Kingdom
Web Site:   https://www.showa.dh.gov.uk/OA_HTML/DHSupplierRegistration.jsp

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Notice Type: 2220 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 225/2009, #323214-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted 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): Department of Health,
Procurement Centre of Expertise, 5th Floor, New Kings Beam House, 22 Upper
Ground, Attn: John R Cook, UK-London SE1 9BW. Tel. +44 2076337745. E-mail:
john.cook@dh.gsi.gov.uk.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
https://www.showa.dh.gov.uk/OA_HTML/DHSupplierRegistration.jsp.
Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact
point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned
contact point(s).
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their
regional or local sub-divisions.
Health.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: yes.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Department of Health, Executive Agencies and Arms Length Bodies -
Framework agreement for the information services flexible resource pool.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 7.
Main place of performance: England.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with a
single operator.
Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in months: 48.
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement:
Estimated value excluding VAT: 37 000 000 GBP.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Department
of Health Information Services provide a range of services to DH internal
customers, associated Executive Agencies and Arms Length Bodies. The
internal resources available to the DH are at times insufficient to meet
the business needs especially at peak demand. It is the departments
intention to let a framework agreement with one supplier to cover the
range of services required to augment our own internal resources.
The flexible resource pool shall provide a pool of trained staff that have
specific knowledge of applications, technologies and operational
infrastructure; experienced on-site management to ensure that activities
can be undertaken within the required timescales and to ensure that the
skill levels are maintained.
The DH intends to create a long term business relationship with a supplier
and their staff, therefore it is expected that the successful supplier
will use a cadre of staff where a minimum of 50 % will at any one time be
permanent employees of the supplier.
The successful supplier shall be required to provide on a call off basis,
the full range of staff for services covering the full application
delivery lifecycle, programme and project management, strategy, design and
business analysis, information, knowledge and records management, computer
and communications security.
Bidders should be aware that this exercise shall result in a framework
contract being awarded, and this contract does not commit the DH to any
project or financial commitment as projects shall be called of against the
contract as required.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 72000000, 72224000,
72251000, 72262000, 72511000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 48 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged minimum number: 3. Maximum number: 10.
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:
EOI 54286.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
21.12.2009 - 14:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 21.1.2010.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT: No.
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: All participants must complete an
expression of interest document which covers economic, financial and
technical capabilities.
Submission of an expression of interest and procurement specific
information.
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the DH eTendering portal at
https://www.showa.dh.gov.uk/OA_HTML/DHSupplierRegistration.jsp.
Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their
expression of interest and provide additional procurement-specific
information (if required) through the DH eTendering portal as follows:
For new suppliers who have not previously contracted with DH, please click
on new supplier link and submit your company and contact details. You will
be sent an acceptance email and then asked to create your user account.
(see step 2).
After accessing the above link, (https://www.showa.dh.gov.uk/OA_HTML/
DHSupplierRegistration.jsp) the following page will be displayed.
Please click on the link below for suppliers not registered:
1) Register as a new supplier.
Please click on link below for suppliers already registered but do not
have a user account.
2) Register a new user (Request for new user account).
For suppliers who have already registered and have received a login and
password please click on login to e-Tendering system link.
3) Login into e-Tendering system.
Once registered, candidates must express interest as follows:
a. Login to the DH eTendering portal;
b. Select sourcing home page and enter expression of interest number EOI
54286 in search field provided;
c. Transaction displayed on page;
d. Select radio button and click on quick link to express interest, review
documentation and upload your response;
e. You must then publish your reply using the publish button.
For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact
the eTendering Help-desk at +44 1132545777 or for procurement related
queries please contact +44 2076337745.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 19.11.2009.
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