Official UK procurement notice
International Emergency Medical Advice & Assistance Services
Authority: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a retender of the international emergency medical assistance contract as the current contract expires at the end of May 2023 with no further options to extend. The service provides advice and assistance to BBC employees and freelancers travelling overseas on BBC business. The service will include the provision of assistance in the event of a medical emergency. - e.g. advice on where to find medical assistance and remote intervention into the provision of appropriate care, settling medical bills directly wherever possible and/or arranging medical evacuation.
The service also provide pre-deployment reports for territories to which BBC personnel may be deployed, highlighting notable local risks and giving useful emergency information.
CPV: Medical insurance services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers · 9 bids received (9.0 per place) · 1 appointed (full)
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedPublished value£1,250,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Merit: 50%
- price: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
- Merit: 50
- Price: 50
- Suitability
Where there is more than one economic operator, the BBC reserves the right to require a grouping of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
Please register your interest in this project by taking the following steps: 1 - Register your company on the Jaggaer eSourcing portal (this is only required once): 1.1 Go to bbc.bravosolution.co.uk ↗ 1.2 - Click the link on the login page to register. 1.3 Accept the terms and conditions and click 'Continue'. 1.4 - Enter your correct business and user details. 1.5 - Note the username you chose and click 'Save' when complete. 1.6 - You will shortly receive an email with your temporary password. 2 - Express an interest in the tender: 2.1 - Login to the portal with the username/password. 2.2 - Click the 'ITTs Open to all Suppliers' link. 2.3 - Click on the relevant ITT to access the content. 2.4 - Click the 'Express Interest' button at the top of the page. This will move the ITT into your 'My ITTs page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only. 2.5 - You can now access any attachments by clicking 'Buyer Attachments' in the 'ITT Details' box. 3. Responding to the tender: 3.1 - Click 'My Response' under ITT Details', you can choose to 'Create Response' or to 'Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining). 3.2 - You can now use the 'Messages' function to communicate wi…
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “International Emergency Medical Advice & Assistance Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 8 Feb 2023, 12:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Jun 2023, 09:33 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 10 Mar 2023 – …
- Authority reference
PROC 2022 72 International Emergency Medical Assistance Services- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-016234- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03a3d6Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering
- Review procedure
As stated in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The applicable review time limits shall be as stated in Regulations 92 and 93 Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Publisher note: In the case of technology requirements, the BBC may involve its technology partner (Atos IT Solutions and Services Limited) to assist in the scoping and drafting of invitations to tender and/or the evaluation of tenders. However, the final decision as to which is the most economically advantageous (by reference to the award criteria) will be made by the BBC. The awarding authority reserves the right not to award a contract and to annul the procurement process at any stage. Tenders and all supporting documents must be priced in sterling and all payments will be made in sterling. The contract shall be subject to English law. The awarding authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any tender and reserves the right to accept part of a tender unless the tenderer expressly stipulates otherwise in the tender document.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://bbc.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
- Appointment period ends
- 10 Mar 2023, 14:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 10 Mar 2023, 14:00 GMT
Timeline
10 Mar 2023 → 8 Jun 2023 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown10 Mar 2023, 14:00 GMT
- Bids opened10 Mar 2023, 14:00 GMT
- Notice published8 Jun 2023, 09:33 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete8 Jun 2023, 09:33 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
International Emergency Medical Advice & Assistance Services
- Signed
- 30 May 2023
- Value
- £1,250,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9bids · 9 electronic | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Business and Property Courts of England and Wales - TCCReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- Healix International LimitedFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria