UK-Manchester: medical software package

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

MANTSESTER

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:298476-2008

Publication Date:

Nov 18, 2008

Deadline:

Dec 22, 2008

Buyer:

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Original Language:

English

Address:

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
MANCHESTER , Greater Manchester
United Kingdom

Web Site:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk

Notice Type: 2220
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 224/2008
, #
298476-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Contact: The Procurement Office, Attn: Ian Jarvey,
UK-Manchester M13 9PL. Tel. (44) 016 12 75 79 13. E-mail:
ian.jarvey@manchester.ac.uk. Fax (44) 016 12 75 29 61.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.manchester.ac.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/purchase/
contracts.htm.
Further information can be obtained at: University of Manchester - Intend
Electronic Tendering Portal. URL: www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/purchase/
contracts.htm.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
University of Manchester - Intend Electronic Tendering Portal. URL:
www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/purchase/contracts.htm.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: University of
Manchester - Intend Electronic Tendering Portal. URL:
www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/purchase/contracts.htm.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Other: University.
Education.
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:
AAA National Information Solution.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 27.
Main place of performance: UK - Manchester.
NUTS code: UKD3.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The purpose of
this tender is to seek bids to provide a national information solution to
support the Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme (AAASP) and
record data nationally to facilitate appropriate medical care and
reporting. The procured system will need to be compatible with the
National Health Services Connecting for Health (CfH) National Programme
for IT (NPfIT) work programme and technologies and be fully adaptable to
future developments.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 48180000, 72000000,
48800000.
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: Yes.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: Up to 60 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: To be agreed during
contract negotiations.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Joint and several liability (one
bidder must take lead role).
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
Agreement of a suitable SLA.
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: Completion
of a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ).
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Completion of PQQ.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: To be assessed from PQQ.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: Completion of PQQ.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: To be assessed from PQQ.
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:
No.
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: 5.
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Completion and evaluation of PQQ.
IV.1.3) Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or
dialogue: Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of
solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no.
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:
2008/351/AAA/AS/IJ.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
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: 22.12.2008 - 17:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
22.12.2008 - 17:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 12.1.2009.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 23.12.2008 - 10:00.
Place: Procurement Office.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
University of Manchester employees only.
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: The tender will be run through the
University's electronic tendering system as detailed in this notice.
Suppliers should be aware that they will be expected to comply fully with
a rigourous process should they succeed beyond the PQQ stage and will be
expected to agree and sign up to the NHS terms and conditions of business.
The University of Manchester has been contracted to conduct this tender.
It will not be a party to the final contract. Evaluation and award of the
contract will be completed by AAASP, and any agreement or contract that
results from this tender will be with a nominated NHS Trust.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: This authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day
standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is
communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to
seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract
is entered into. Applicants have two working days from notification of the
award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has
to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before expiry of the standstill
period. Such additional information should be requested from the address
in section 1.1.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully
resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for
aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach
of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern
Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3
months). Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order
the settling aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend
any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into
the court may only award damages.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 14.11.2008.

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