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UK-Brighton: repair and maintenance services of medical and surgical equipment

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   BRIGHTON
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:41696-2010
Publication Date:   Feb 11, 2010
Deadline:   Apr 9, 2010
Buyer:   BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST
BRIGHTON, Brighton and Hove
United Kingdom
Email:   Click here

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2210 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 29/2010, #41696-2010
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
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): Brighton and Sussex University
Hospitals NHS Trust, The Royal Sussex County Hospital, Supplies Dept.,
Eastern Road, Attn: Edd James, Brighton BN2 5BE, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44
1273664952. E-mail: edwardjames@nhs.net. Fax +44 1273664830.
Further information 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:
Body governed by public law.
Health.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
UK-Brighton: maintenance of linear accelerators.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 1.
Main place of performance: Brighton and Hove.
NUTS code: UKJ21.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Royal
Sussex County Hospital in Brighton is the hub of the Sussex Cancer Network
(SCN). It provides a comprehensive cancer treatment service, including
radiotherapy and complex chemotherapy; only childhood cancers and
exceptionally rare tumours are referred to other centres.
The Trust is seeking to establish a contract to provide maintenance
support to supplement the in-house maintenance service on the following
equipment: 4x Elekta Precise Linear Accelerators.
4x Elekta iViewGT Systems Repair and maintenance services of medical and
surgical equipment. Repair and maintenance services of medical equipment.
Repair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 50420000, 50400000,
50421000.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
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: (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 for compulsory winding up or 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 contracting 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;
(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes 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;
(h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal
organisation, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action
98/733/JHA;
(i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in
Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council
Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;
(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.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate
statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant
professional risk indemnity insurance;
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
(a) (i) 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;
(ii) 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 issued 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;
(b) 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;
(c) 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;
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
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.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
BS/01923.
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:
9.4.2010 - 13:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Trust does not bind itself to accept
the lowest or any offer and reserves the right to accept an offer in
either whole or part, each item for the purpose being treated separately.
The Trust can not be held responsible for any costs incurred by offerors
in relation to the preparation of their offer and any subsequent post
offer clarification.
GO reference: GO 10020927/01.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 9.2.2010.
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