UK-Cottingham: analysers

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

COTTINGHAM

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:310042-2008

Publication Date:

Nov 29, 2008

Deadline:

Jan 5, 2009

Buyer:

HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST

Original Language:

English

Address:

HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST
COTTINGHAM
United Kingdom

Web Site:

www.hey.nhs.uk

Notice Type: 2120
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 233/2008
, #
310042-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Supplies
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Hull and East Yorkshire
Hospitals NHS Trust, Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Attn: Hazel
Coupland, Contracts Manager or Carol Tetley, Contracts Officer,
UK-Cottingham HU16 5JQ. Tel. 014 82 62 32 27/26 07. E-mail:
Carol.Tetley@hey.nhs.uk. Fax 014 82 62 24 03.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.hey.nhs.uk.
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).
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
UK-Cottingham: range of automated medical healthcare pathology analysers
together with associated reagents and consumables.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Supplies.
Main site or location of works: Hospital locations associated with Hull
and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (acute services) in England.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The supply,
delivery, installation, commissioning of one of more of a number of
automated medical healthcare pathology analytical systems together with
supporting assays/reagents/consumables for:
General and Specific Biochemistry,
Immunoassays - including virology serological analyses (principally
hepatitis A, B and C, HIV and rubella).
Service/maintenance, initial and on-going training and support will be
required and options will be invited.
All equipment must be capable of handling high workload volumes
commensurate with a major acute Trust pathology service which also covers
with regional specialities (eg oncology and renal).
Options for integrated or total laboratory automation may also be
considered.
Financial options may include, but not be limited to, purchase, and/or
reagent/rental, and/or managed service plans.
Analysers. Biochemical analysers. Immunoassay analysers. Repair and
maintenance services. Training services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 38434000, 50000000,
38434580, 80500000, 38434500.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: Parent company and/or other
guarantees may be required. Full details to be in invitation to tender.
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.
Interested companies should register their company details onto the
NHS-Sid database at www.pasa.nhs.uk for publication onto that system.
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;
(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: (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: 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: Restricted.
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:
HEY/08/067
This must be used in all correspondence.
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:
5.1.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 30.3.2009.
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: (i) The Trust does not accept any liability
for any costs incurred by parties responding to this notice or any
subsequent PPQ that may be issued, or any invitation to tender.
(ii) The Trust reserves the right to issue a PPQ.
(iii) The Trust does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender,
and also reserves the right not to make an award, or make an award on a
shared or sole supplier basis.
(iv) The tender is expected to be on a contract basis - as finally
detailed in the tender documentation issued to short listed companies. In
the event of a framework agreement being used the Trust reserves the right
to do mini competitions on the back of this.
(v) The period is expected to be 7 year/s with an option to extend -
details will be confirmed in tender documentation.
(vi) The anticipated start date is expected to be Spring 2010.
(vii) Tenders to short listed companies will be issued electronically. A
current e-mail address must be provided with an expression of interest.
(viii) Method of purchase for equipment may be by outright purchase or via
an operating lease. The Trust reserves the right to tender separately for
leasing.
(ix) The Trust reserves the right to use reverse/e-auction.
(x) Interested companies should register their company details onto the
NHS-Sid database at www.pasa.nhs.uk for publication onto that system.
GO reference: GO 08112702/01.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 27.11.2008.

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