Official UK procurement notice
DHSC:Med Tec: Design for Life Research and Analytical Support
Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTo provide research and analytical support to the Design for Life initiative, discovery phase, assessing the opportunity and required actions to increase levels of reuse, remanufacture and materials recovery in the UK medical technology sector. <br/><br/>The successful bidder will be expected to produce a report that quantifies the economic, resilience, and sustainability opportunity of a shift towards circular economy approaches for MedTech in the UK and will include recommendations for further action.
CPV: Research services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The overall requirement is for the successful bidder to produce:Planned
The overall requirement is for the successful bidder to produce:<br/>A report that quantifies the economic, resilience, and sustainability opportunity of a shift towards circular economy approaches for MedTech in the UK and will include recommendations for further action. <br/> <br/> <br/>The work may include: <br/>· Analysis and cataloguing of the current levels of reuse, remanufacture and recovery of selected medical technology <br/>· Modelling of future scenarios <br/>· Development of cost/benefit data analyses <br/>· Drafting of a findings report recommending future action <br/> <br/>This list is not exhaustive and may change as the contract progresses. <br/> <br/>Experience/Skills/Knowledge Required:<br/> <br/>· The ability to deliver excellent research and analytical products; impart leading technical, commercial, and operational insights; and brokering with expert parties. This will include: <br/>· Pre-existing or ability to rapidly form networks within the circular economy sphere to enable coordination and brokering with leading adjacent sectors, such as consumer electronics, and supporting, horizontal domains, such as data science.<br/>· Excellence in analysis, with an ability to use incomplete or imperfect data sets to reach robust conclusions, and, where data is unavailable, conduct indicative bottom-up analyses to ensure conclusions can still be formed.<br/>· Fluency in economic analyses for public expenditure, greenhouse gas accounting at a business and product level, and quantifying the value of improved resilience of supply chains to businesses and whole sectors.<br/>· Skills, such as ability to interpret technical standards or procurement frameworks, which can support translation of policy-type research into real-world operations within a sector or organisation.<br/>· Ability to rapidly develop and analyse surveys / questionnaires.<br/>· Delivery of Futures / Foresight workshops, including collaborative scenario development. <br/>· Excellence in writing accessible reports for a wide audience of subject matter experts and laypersons. <br/> <br/> <br/>Market Engagement meeting to be held via Microsoft Teams 25/07/2023. If you are interested in attending the market engagement meeting:<br/> <br/>1. Log in or Register through the supplier portal at health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗<br/>2. Locate the opportunity using 'My Proposals and Quotes' or in 'Find Opportunities’ Reference C191734<br/>3. Click Register Interest. <br/>4. Message via Atamis your email address for the link to the event to be forwarded to <br/> <br/>Use of CCS Research and Insights Framework<br/> <br/>Estimated date that Suppliers will be invited to Tender from Framework week beginning Monday 31/07/2023. <br/> <br/>The information in this PIN is subject to change and the Authority withhold the right to make changes to any of the information contained here.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Jul 2023, 14:23 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Jul 2023, 14:23 BST
- Authority reference
C191734- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-020328- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03e21cFind a Tender
Publisher note: Estimated tender dates are:<br/><br/>1. Market engagement event week commencing 24/07/2023<br/>2. ITT published week commencing 31/07/2023 <br/>3. ITT response closes week commencing 28/08/2023 <br/>4. Contract start date week commencing 11/09/2023 <br/><br/>4. Please note that these dates, and other information in this PIN, are subject to change
How it was run
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Timeline
14 Jul 2023 → 31 Jul 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published14 Jul 2023, 14:23 BST
- Tender notice expected31 Jul 2023, 00:00 BST
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