Official UK procurement notice
Provisions · UK public procurement notice
Authority: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe supply of a range of grocery provisions including but not limited to products such as dry goods, canned, beverages, pasta, rice etc. All NHS Scotland
CPV: Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1A range of grocery Provisions to be used by Health Boards across Scotland, single…
A range of grocery Provisions to be used by Health Boards across Scotland, single supplier framework, 1 supplier The Framework Agreement may be used by all mainland and island NHS Scotland Health Boards and Special Boards (including the Common Services Agency) and by all entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards,
Special Health Boards and the Authority or other NHS organisations established pursuant to the NHS (Scotland)
Act 1978) and any Integrated Joint Boards established pursuant to the new Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act 2014. All Scottish Hospices.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- 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
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 Dec 2021, 09:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Jun 2022, 10:15 BST
- Authority reference
NP743/17- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-016220- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-030476Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This VEAT notice is to advise the need for modification to meet the additional demands of the Scottish Health and Social Care sector during the Covid-19 pandemic (and recovery of services) to maintain necessary supply and remove unnecessary disruption from the Authority at this time in line with Regulation 72(1)(b) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
the priorities for NSS, NHS Scotland and likely those suppliers who would wish to be part of a tender process, have changed, As a result it is a necessary step to delay start of new tender process until November 2022
necessitating a 8 month extension to current framework revising expiry to March 2023
Health Board operations have been severely affected by Covid impacts The reopening process and uncertain timescales have affected the ability to tender along with Health Board resource to be able to support.
Tender process is planned to commence by November 2022
- Review procedure
An economic operator that suffers, or is at risk of suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public
Contracts(Scotland) Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.
Publisher note: The total estimated value referred to in this notice is for the duration of the extension period only (8 months) (SC Ref:696228)
Notice history
4 releases on Find a TenderRoutine re-releases (4)
- 2021-12: 1 release · 22 Dec 2021
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast4 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £2,000,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Provisions
- Signed
- 9 May 2022
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
- Change The change to this contract is an additional 8 month extension. All terms & conditions of contract remain in place, Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee: Due to the current and developing situation regarding Covid-19, the priorities for NSS, NHS Scotland and likely those suppliers who would wish to be part of a tender process, have changed, As a result it is a necessary step to delay commencing any new tender process until end November 2022
Provisions
- Signed
- 10 Jan 2022
- Value
- £1,000,000
- Status
- active
- Change The change to this contract is an additional 4 month extension. All terms & conditions of contract remain in place, Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee: Due to the current and developing situation regarding Covid-19, the priorities for NSS, NHS Scotland and likely those suppliers who would wish to be part of a tender process, have changed, As a result it is a necessary step to delay commencing any new tender process until end April 2022
Contract 012372-2022-NP743/17-1
- Signed
- 19 Nov 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Contract 031999-2021-NP743/17-1
- Signed
- 19 Nov 2021
- Value
- £1,000,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Court of SessionReview contact point
- Edinburgh Sheriff CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- BFS Group Ltd T/A BidfoodFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.