Bip Buyer de-activated users: The Sponsorship of Stoma Care Nurses and Associated Products & Services

UK-London: Stomatology devices.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      King's Health Partners
      C/o Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, 2nd Floor, New City Court, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 2071885341, Email: rupinder.mangat@gstt.nhs.uk
      Attn: Mr Rupinder Mangat (Sourcing Manager)

      Further information can be obtained at: As Above       
      Specifications and additional documents: As Above       
      Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As Above       
   
   I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
      Regional or local agency/office

   I.3) Main activity:
      Health

   I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities:
      The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: No

Section II: Object Of The Contract: SERVICES
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: The Sponsorship of Stoma Care Nurses and Associated Products & Services
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 25

         Region Codes: UKI - LONDON         
      II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework or a dynamic purchasing system:The notice involves a public contract                                                       
      
      II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Stomatology devices. Sponsorship of Stoma Care Nurses and Associated Products & Services related to the treatment of stoma patients within the trust and community
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         33126000 - Stomatology devices.
         

      II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): No       
      II.1.8)Lots:
         This contract is divided into lots: No
      II.1.9)Information about variants:
         Variants will be accepted: No    
   
   II.2)Quantity Or Scope Of The Contract
      II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
      Funding for 2 x Band 7 clinical Nurse Specialist employed full time (37.5 hours per week )
Funding for 1x Band 8A clinical nurse specialist employed full time (37.5 hours per week )
Funding for 1 x Band 4 clerical secretarial support employed full time (37.5 hours)
Prospective providers to reimburse the Trust for travel expenses of the clinical nurse specialist nurses when providing community visits to patients residing within the local catchment area of the Trust
Prospective providers to reimburse the Trust for Recruitment costs for the Nursing Posts should the incumbent staff leave employment of the Trust to maximum of £2,800 per post
Bidders to provide funding for 3 stoma nurses to attend national stoma conferences to include accommodation and travel every year during the life of the contract
Educational funding for Stoma Care up to the value of £4,000 per annum during the life of the contract
The Sponsor must note however that the client /patient may choose to opt out of their home delivery service & use another route of supply for their stoma products

The Sponsor must be capable of supplying stoma products to clients /patients if temporally out of the country e.g. clients /patients living half of the year aboard or on holiday who have run into difficulty
The sponsor must make available a free advice telephone line & free postal service to clinical staff & clients /patients

The Sponsor must inform Colorectal Nurses by telephone as soon as but no later than 24 hours of any patient problems /issues
The Sponsor will be required to carry out a patient experience audit twice yearly & report findings of these audits to the Trust.      
      
      II.2.2)Options: Not Provided         
         II.2.3)Information about renewals:
            This contract is subject to renewal: Not Provided         
   II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion      
      Not Provided
   Information About Lots
               
Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial And Technical Information
   III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
      III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
      NO
      
      III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
      TBA
      
      III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
      nhs terms and conditons for services 2013
      
      III.1.4)Other particular conditions:
         The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: No       
   III.2)Conditions For Participation
      III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
         The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
         
         A full list of these criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr
         
         Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists. Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so. Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
      
      III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
         Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:         
         (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;
         (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
         (c) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.

      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         (b) 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;
         (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;
      
      III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts: Not Provided   
   III.3)Conditions Specific To Service Contracts
      III.3.1)Information about a particular profession:
         Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: No       
      III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service:
         Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: 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 below
            Criteria - Weighting
            FUNDING - 40
            PROVISION OF HOME CARE SERVICE & PATIENT SUPPORT IN COMMUNITY - 20
            CLINICAL PRODUCTS OFFERED - 20
            CAPACITY TO DELIVER VALUE OF THE CONTRACT - 10
            INFORMATION GOVERNANCE - 10

      IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction:
         An electronic auction will be used: No       

   IV.3)Administrative Information
      IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: T2393      
      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
         Date: 29/12/2015
         Time: 17:00      
      IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: Not Provided         
      IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
         Duration in days: 108
      
      IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders
         Date: 29/12/2015
         Time: 17:00
         Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: No


Section VI: Complementary Information

   VI.1)This Is A Recurrent Procurement: No
   VI.2)Information about European Union funds:
      The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No       
   VI.3)Additional Information: To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=174060607
GO-20151124-PRO-7366677 TKR-20151124-PRO-7366676
   
   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      King's Health Partners
      C/o Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, 2nd Floor, New City Court, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 2071885341, Email: rupinder.mangat@gstt.nhs.uk

      Body responsible for mediation procedures:
               King's Health Partners
         C/o Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, 2nd Floor, New City Court, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
         Tel. +44 2071885341, Email: rupinder.mangat@gstt.nhs.uk

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided   
   
      VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
            Not Provided

   VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 24/11/2015

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