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UK-Reading: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   READING
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:266259-2010
Publication Date:   Sep 8, 2010
Deadline:   Sep 14, 2010
Buyer:   ROYAL BERKSHIRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   ROYAL BERKSHIRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
READING
United Kingdom
Email:   Click here

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Notice type: 01323 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 174/2010, #266259-2010
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Accelerated 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)
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road
Contact: Procurement Department
Attn: Adrian Stephens
RG1 5AN Reading
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. +44 1183225230
E-mail: PROC426@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
Fax +44 1183225242
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
Other Health Service
Health
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities No
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority
UK-Reading: provision of IT services.
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 Reading, Berkshire with other sites in
Berkshire.
II.1.3) The notice involves
A public contract
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The Trust has developed over time a significant reliance upon IT for the
provision of both clinical and support systems and infrastructure to run
the hospital effectively and efficiently. However, being an NHS Foundation
Trust we must ensure that we are focused upon our patients so much so that
in today's economic environment we are looking to focus back upon the core
skills expected and while IT is fundamental, it is not a core competency.
The Trust is looking to enter into a contract with a single provider for
IT services. This requirement will cover the following:
— help desk including Cerner Millennium support,
— networking,
— server support,
— desktop engineering,
— application development,
— application support,
— informatics,
— training (i.e. specific to IT rather than medical),
— data centre hosting including virtualisation and cloud computing (e.g
specialist applications, data warehousing etc),
— disaster recovery,
— back up strategy,
— WAN/LAN,
— Windows server technologies,
— device management,
— decommissioning,
— archiving.
The Trust requires the winning provider to deliver IT services using best
practise and to add value. The provider will also be expected to undertake
transformational projects, associated project management and architectural
services within each of the areas to increase the value for money the
Trust derives from it's investment in IT.
The Trust reserves the right to award a contract for all or part of the
services listed above.
The Trust requires services to commence during Q1/11 and will be for 7
years with an option to extend for a further 3 years.
The Trust has formed the view that TUPE may apply to this contract.
Support services of personal computers. Data services. Computer-related
services. Computer network services. Computer back-up and catalogue
conversion services. Servers. Networks. Local area network. Help-desk and
support services. Repair, maintenance and associated services related to
personal computers, office equipment, telecommunications and audio-visual
equipment.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
72000000, 48820000, 72500000, 72253000, 50300000, 32410000, 72900000,
72300000, 72700000, 32400000, 50324000
II.1.8) Division into lots
No
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted
No
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope
The Trust requires services to commence during Q1/11 and will be for 7
years with an option to extend for a further 3 years.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION
Duration in months: 120 (from the award of the contract)
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required
As per the pre qualification questionnaire.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them
As per the pre qualification questionnaire.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded
As per the pre qualification questionnaire.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject
Yes
As per the pre qualification questionnaire.
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.
As per the pre qualification questionnaire.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are
met: As per the pre qualification questionnaire.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required As per the pre
qualification questionnaire.
III.2.3) Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are
met:
(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 3 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;
(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
capacities 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;
(h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or
contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last 3 years;
(i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to
the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;
(j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services
provider intends possibly to subcontract;
As per the pre qualification questionnaire.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required
As per the pre qualification questionnaire.
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
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
Accelerated restricted
Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure: In the current
economic climate, a faster procurement process will benefit the Trust by
reducing internal resource required to understand the market offerings.
For potential suppliers the benefit will be that potential contracts will
be awarded before the end of the financial year.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate
Envisaged number of operators 5
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
PROC426
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
No
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
Payable documents No
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
14.9.2010 - 16:00
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates
5.10.2010
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
GO reference: GO 10090318/01.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
3.9.2010
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