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PROJECT TITLE: UK-Salford: lasers

Project number: 2008/S 31-042269

Type: CONTRACT NOTICE - Supplies

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

 

I.1)

NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

 

NHS North West Collaborative Procurement Hub (NWCPH), 3 rd Floor , Sandringham House, Castle Court, Wind, Attn: David Shankland, UK-Salford M5 4DG. Tel.  016 19 22 26 40. E-mail: david.shankland@cmmc.nhs.uk. Fax  016 19 22 22 78.

 

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:

 

Body governed by public law.

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:

 

Holmium Yag and Neodynium Laser.

 

II.1.2)

Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:

 

Supplies.

Lease.

Main place of delivery: University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

 

NUTS code: UKD31 .

 

II.1.3)

The notice involves:

 

A public contract.

 

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement:

 

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

 

A combined (i.e. switchable) Holmium and Neodynium Yag laser for for Urological applications such as fragmentation of stones, incision of strictures, destruction of bladder and upper urinary tract tumours.

 

II.1.6)

Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

 

33436100, 33169100.

 

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

 

No.

 

II.1.8)

Division into lots:

 

II.1.9)

Variants will be accepted:

 

Yes.

 

II.2)

QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT

 

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope:

 

Estimated value excluding VAT: 250000 GBP.

 

II.2.2)

Options:

 

II.3)

DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:

 

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

 

III.1)

CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT

 

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required:

 

III.1.2)

Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:

 

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

 

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject:

 

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) ENTERING GENERAL PQQ SUPPLIER INFORMATION GMCPH utilizes the NHS Supplier Information Database (NHS-sid) to manage and assess general pre-qualification information in the form of a profile. Candidates are requested to provide their profile in NHS-sid as follows: i) Candidates should register on NHS-sid at http://www.pasa.nhs.uk/ and submit their NHS-sid company profile for publication to the system. Candidates already registered on NHS-sid must ensure that information is up to date. ii) Candidates should ensure all the relevant sections of their NHS-sid profile are completed to demonstrate their ability to meet the short-listing criteria applicable to this contract. Those items required within the sections are as set out within the minimum short-listing criteria guide which appears in the supplier toolkit on the following page http://www.pasa.nhs.uk/sid/suppliers.asp. iii) Where access to NHS-sid is unavailable, please contact the NHS-sid Helpdesk at: nhssid@pasa.nhs.uk 2) SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSION OF INTEREST AND PROCUREMENT SPECIFIC INFORMATION This procurement exercise will be conducted on the GMCPH eTendering portal at www.gmcph.bravosolution.com Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement-specific information (if required) through the GMCPH eTendering portal as follows: i) Candidates should register on the GMCPH eTendering portal at www.gmcph.bravosolution.com. ii) Once registered, candidates must express your interest as follows a. login to the GMCPH eTendering portal b. select Response to OJEU advert and PQQ c. select Open Access PQQs d. access listing related to this contract and view details e. click on Express Interest button iii) Once you have expressed interest, please access the My PQQs page, where you can download additional documentation (if required in III.2.1.1.ii above), and construct your reply as instructed. For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact the eTendering Help-desk at 0800-011-2470 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.

 

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity:

 

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: The North West Collaborative Procurement Hub requires all interested parties to complete registration of their company on NHS-SID at www.pasa.nhs.uk/sid and then create and submit their NHS-sid company profile for publication to the system. Candidates already registered on NHS Sid must ensure that information is upto date by using edit and then confirm. Candidates should ensure all the relevant sections of their NHS-sid profile are completed to demonstrate their ability to meet the short listing criteria applicable to this contract. Where access to NHS-sid is unavailable, please contact the NHS-sid Helpdesk at: nhssid@pasa.nhs.uk

 

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly 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:

 

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: The North West Collaborative Procurement Hub requires all interested parties to complete registration of their company on NHS-SID at www.pasa.nhs.uk/sid and then create and submit their NHS-sid company profile for publication to the system. Candidates already registered on NHS Sid must ensure that information is upto date by using edit and then confirm. Candidates should ensure all the relevant sections of their NHS-sid profile are completed to demonstrate their ability to meet the short listing criteria applicable to this contract. Where access to NHS-sid is unavailable, please contact the NHS-sid Helpdesk at: nhssid@pasa.nhs.uk

 

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: (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 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; (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; (g) for public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in appropriate cases, an indication of the environmental management measures that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the contract; (h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three 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; (k) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.

 

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts:

 

III.3)

CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS

 

III.3.1)

Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:

 

III.3.2)

Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:

 

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:

 

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:

 

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:

 

IV.3)

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

 

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

 

UHSMT/250.

 

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:

 

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

 

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 13.3.2008 - 20:00.

 

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

 

13.3.2008 - 20:00.

 

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:

 

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:

 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders:

 

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

 

VI.1)

THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT:

 

VI.2)

CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:

 

No.

 

VI.3)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

 

The North West ollaborative Procurement Hub may intend to take this procurement via a lease – in this case we will utilise the PASA Framework. The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction. Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest to this Tender: 1. Register your company on the NWCPH portal (this is only required once) -Browse to the eSourcing Portal: www.gmcph.bravosolution.com -Click the 'Click here to register' link -Accept the terms and conditions and click 'continue' -Enter your correct business and user details -Note the username you choose and click 'save' when complete -You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure) 2. Express an interest in the tender -Login to the portal with the username/password -Click the 'open access PQQs' link. (These are the Pre-Qualification Questionnaires open to any registered supplier) -Click on the relevant PQQ to access the content -Click the 'Express Interest' button in the 'Actions' box on the left-hand side of the page -This will move the PQQ into your 'my PQQ's' page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) -Click on the PQQ code, you can now access any attachements by clicking the 'Settings and Buyer Attachments' in the 'Actions' Box 3. Responding to the Tender -You can now choose to 'reply' or 'reject' (please give a reason if rejecting) -You can nowuse the 'messages' function to communicate with the Buyer and seek any clarification -Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ -There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available) If you require any further assistance use the online help, or the BravoSolution help desk is available Mon-Fri 8am - 6pm on: -eMail: help@bravosolution.co.uk -Phone: 0800 011 247 / Fax: 020 7080 0480.

 

VI.4)

PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

 

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures:

 

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals:

 

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:

 

VI.5)

DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 12.2.2008. 

 

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