Published date: 24 September 2018

This notice was replaced on 20 May 2019

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 20 May 2019)

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Technical publications - 22121000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1 to £200,000

Procurement reference

BNFSB 0918

Published date

24 September 2018

Closing date

29 October 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NICE is responsible for guidance to healthcare professionals working within the English NHS. This comes in the form of three print publications; the British National Formulary (BNF) and the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), which are distributed annually and the Nurse Prescribers Formulary (NPF) which is distributed biennially (every two years). In this document the BNF, BNFC and NPF will be described collectively as the 'BNF Publications'.

Distribution of all the BNF Publications takes place during October and November. Collectively 318,393 of these publications were distributed to the English NHS in 2018/19. Further information on the BNF print publications is available on the BNF website (https://www.bnf.org/products/books/).
The criteria describing which Healthcare Professionals are eligible to receive the print BNF, BNFC and NPF is available on the NICE website (https://www.nice.org.uk/About/What-we-do/Evidence-Services/British-National-Formulary).

The Storage and Distribution Provider will be responsible for:

• Taking delivery of, storing, and distributing the BNF Publications to eligible healthcare professionals;
• Providing a service to manage enquiries from customers regarding distribution of the BNF publications;
• Liaising with the Mailing Database Provider that manages the mailing database for the BNF Publications, which includes all NHS staff who meet the eligibility criteria. [The Mailing Database Provider is the point of contact for eligibility criteria and customer data collation, and will provide updated mailing lists.]
• Storage and distribution of any returned stock of each publication in between annual distributions in order to satisfy ad hoc orders.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

Gillian Watson

Address

10 Spring Gardens
LONDON
SW1A2BU
England

Telephone

0161 870 3197

Email

gillian.watson@nice.org.uk