Published date: 21 September 2015

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 15 October 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £144,375

Procurement reference

BNF 0915

Published date

21 September 2015

Closing date

15 October 2015

Contract start date

1 January 2016

Contract end date

31 December 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

NICE is responsible for the distribution of hard copy prescribing guidance to Health Care professionals with a prescribing responsibility working within the English NHS. This comes in the form of three 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. All three publications are published in September and collectively approximately 350,000 BNF and BNFC are currently distributed to the English NHS each year. Approximately 25,000 NPF are distributed biennially.
The Mailing Database Provider will hold and manage the mailing database for all Health Care Professionals who are eligible to receive a BNF, BNFC or NPF (collectively BNF Publications). They will deliver mailing lists for each BNF publication to the Hard Copy Storage and Distribution Provider in advance of each publication date. They will also provide an enquiry handling service to deal with telephone and email queries from Healthcare Professionals regarding the delivery of BNF Publications. The enquiry handling staff will also manage the mailing database, updating it as and when is necessary.

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Award information

Awarded date

10 November 2015

Contract start date

1 January 2016

Contract end date

31 December 2018

Total value of contract

£144,375

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Binley’s (Wilmington Healthcare Ltd)

Address

Beechwood House
2 - 3 Commercial Way
Southfields
Basildon
SS15 6EF

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

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About the buyer

Contact name

Gillian Watson

Address

Level 1A City Tower
Piccadilly Plaza
Manchester
M1 4BT
England

Email

gillian.watson@nice.org.uk