Contract for the supply of ciprofloxacin and doxycycline.
Contract notice
Supplies
Section I: Contracting authority
The Secretary of State for Health acting through the Commercial Medicines Unit (part of the Department of Health)
Castle View House, East Lane
For the attention of: Lynne Nichols
WA7 2AA Runcorn
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1928794653
E-mail:
Fax: +44 1928794658
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: https://cmu.bravosolution.co.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Other: Public Procurement
Section II: Object of the contract
Purchase
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: To a location in Enlgand to be notified to the successful bidder(s) following contract award.
NUTS code UK
33651100
Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
Description of these options: Bidders may offer for one or more of the antibiotics described in II.1.5.
Information about lots
Lot title: Ciprofloxacin33651100
The list of antibiotics presentations, strengths and pack sizes and indicative volumes will be included in the Invitation to Tender. Bidders may offer for one or more of those antibiotics.
33651100
The list of antibiotics presentations, strengths and pack sizes and indicative volumes will be included in the Invitation to Tender. Bidders may offer for one or more of those antibiotics.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
1) Entering general PQQ supplier information
The CMU (part of the Department of Health) utilises the NHS Supplier Information Database (sid4health) to manage and assess general pre-qualification information in the form of a profile. Candidates are requested to provide their profile in sid4health as follows:
i) Candidates must obtain a Dun & Bradstreet (D&B;) D-U-N-S® Number to enable registration on sid4health. This normally is provided within 48 hours but may take up to 5 days*, so please ensure this step is completed as soon as possible. The D-U-N-S® number is the standard supplier coding for the NHS and must be obtained for use in all trading with the NHS. Check to see if your company has a D-U-N-S® Number on the Sid4health registration page.
* The D-U-N-S® Number registration turnaround time quoted is for UK subjects. Non UK subjects (businesses registered outside of the UK), should use www.dnb.com and choose the country in which the business is registered from the selection at the top of the Home page and then search for DUNS request form. If unable to find a DUNS request form please contact the local Customer Services team. Turnaround times will vary from Country to country.
ii) Candidates must go to the following web page http://www.sid4health.nhs.uk/home.action. Select the Register Organisation on the left of the page and then select Organisation Type supplier. Key in details as shown to search for your D-U-N-S® Number. If you are not on their database click on the link at the bottom of the page to obtain a number from D&B.;
iii) Once registration has been authorised by the sid4health administrator and after receiving logon details, access the Profile Management area and create and validate your sid4health company profile. (Candidates must publish at least one validated profile to make their profile available for buyers to view generally - see the Help page on sid4health within Profile Management for more details).iv) Candidates should ensure all the mandatory fields of their sid4health profile are completed. Failure to comply with the completion of all mandatory fields could result in the elimination from the procurement process at this PQQ stage. D&B; data will be supplied automatically by D&B.;
v) Once a candidate has ensured that all the required fields are completed for this PQQ and the profile has been validated, they must add the profile to the Request to Participate list ID’d T1200_250 and named pqq_29018 contract for the supply of ciprofloxacin and doxycycline. Select ‘View all request to participate lists’ on the left menu and search/select this list. Select the Join button to the right of the list and then select the validated profile to allocate to this procurement (you may have more than one validated profile as you may have different information held against your profile for different procurements) (Please note the number on the Request To Participate list name should be the same as that generated by the Bravo PQQ creation i.e. the pqq_29018. It is easiest to copy and paste this straight from Bravo).
vi) Where access to Sid4health is unavailable, please contact the sid4health Helpdesk at: .
2) submission of expression of interest and procurement specific informationThis procurement exercise will be conducted on the CMU (part of the Department of Health) eTendering portal at www.cmu.bravosolution.com.uk. Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information (if required) through the CMU (part of the Department of Health) eTendering portal as follows:
i) Candidates should register on the CMU (part of the Department of Health) eTendering portal at https://www.cmu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register:
- Accept the terms and conditions and click continue,- Enter your correct business and user details,
- Note the username you chose and click save when complete,
- You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure).
ii) Once registered, candidates must express your interest as follows:
a. login to the CMU (part of the Department of Health) eTendering portal
b. select Response to OJEU advert and PQQ
c. select PQQs Open To All Suppliers
d. access listing related to this contract pqq_29018 contract for the supply of ciprofloxacin and doxycycline and view details
e. click on express interest button in the actions box on the left-hand side of the page.
iii) Once you have expressed interest, the PQQ will move to My PQQs, where you can download additional documentation (if required in III.2.1.1.ii above), and construct your reply as instructed. You must then publish your reply using the publish button.
iv) For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact the ETendering Help-desk at +44 8003684850 or .
Please refer to PQQ evaluation approach document, which can be accessed once you have expressed an interest within the Bravo portal under pqq_29018.
Please refer to PQQ evaluation approach document, which can be accessed once you have expressed an interest within the Bravo portal under pqq_29018.
Section IV: Procedure
Prior information notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2011/S 31-051141 of 15.2.2011
Section VI: Complementary information
Potential suppliers should note that, in accordance with the Government’s policies on transparency, the CMU (part of the Department of Health) intends to publish the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ), the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document, and the text of any contract awarded, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the CMU (part of the Department of Health). Further information on transparency can be found at: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/guidance-transparency.