Published date: 26 June 2018

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.


Closing: 17 July 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Various medicinal products - 33690000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£11,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_161395/684009

Published date

26 June 2018

Closing date

17 July 2018

Contract start date

17 August 2018

Contract end date

14 January 2021

Contract type

Supply 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.

This is an accelerated procedure.

Justification

the Authority recently tendered for PD fluids and IV fluids under 2018/S 025-052743. However due to conflicting information received part way through the procurement about the product, a decision was taken to cancel the PD fluids from the tender until such time that the conflicting information was verified for accuracy. This information has now been verified and the Authority wishes to re-tender for the PD fluids on an accelerated basis to ensure that stockpile shortages are minimal. There are no changes to the tender documents in terms of product specification. Volumes are detailed within the documentation.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

Peritoneal Dialysis Fluids - a full list of PD fluids and the related tender documents are published on the Departments tendering system

Please sign up to the Department's tendering system via the below link to be able to register interest and complete your tender submission.

https://dh.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

The Authority owns an Essential Medicines Buffer Stockpile (EMBS), which was first set up in 2009. The purpose of the EMBS is to have medicines that are routinely used in the NHS, available for release into the UK supply chain in the event of pandemic or other health emergency. The current EMBS contract was finalised in November 2015 and runs for 4 years to November 2019.

A clinical review of the current EMBS contract has identified revisions to intravenous (IV) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) fluids for which there are at present no contracts or buffer stocks. Creating a buffer stock for PD fluids is the subject of this procurement.
The Essential Medicines Buffer Stock for PD fluids will operate differently to other national stockpiles in that the suppliers who win the contracts are required to store and rotate the stock through their normal supply chain to prevent it from expiring. All the stock must be held with at least a 12 month expiry date and it must be held within the UK. The Contract will be for a period of up to 17 months with the option to extend a further 12 months at the Authorities discretion.


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About the buyer

Contact name

Sam Richman

Address

39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
England

Telephone

0

Email

Sam.Richman@dh.gsi.gov.uk

Website

www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care