The Supply and Support of Blood and Plasma Storage Units

CPV: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

Bids received

1 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed

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

17 Aug 2021, 22:45 BST

Last source update

17 Aug 2021, 22:45 BST

Authority reference

LSL/MED/0077

FTS notice number

2021/S 000-020152

Classification (CPV)

Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons; Additional deliveries by the original supplier ordered under the strict conditions stated in the directive

Published justification

Negotiated procedure without prior publication

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reasons:

The negotiated procedure without Prior publication may be used for public supply contracts -

• for additional deliveries by the original supplier which are intended either as a partial replacement of supplies or installations or as the extension of existing supplies or installations where a change of supplier would oblige the contracting authority to acquire supplies having different technical characteristics which would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance (Regulation 32(5)(b) of PCR 2015).

Explanation:

Leidos Supply Ltd has awarded a single source framework for the provision of spare parts, ancillaries, capital equipment, servicing, training and software publications for the fleet of DBS Ltd Blood and Plasma Storage Units (BSUs) and Temperature Controlled Environments (TCEs) currently in service across the MoD. The framework also includes the replacement of BSU/TCE devices considered Beyond Economic Repair (BER). The agreement duration is 3 years. As per VTN (ref - 2020/S 169-410321), an agreement has been placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to Article 32 of Directive 2014/24/EC of the European Parliament (Regulation 32(5)(b) of PCR 2015). The manufacturer (DBS Ltd) are the only provider authorised to create, replace, modify, repair and maintain the in service BSU/TCE MOTS devices, both safely and without altering the performance characteristics of the equipment. DBS Ltd hold all design rights and IP relating to the modified end product intended for use within operational environments.

Publisher note: The authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a Security Aspects Letter), the authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications

1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.

• DBS LtdFramework contractor Star West, Westmead Trading Estate, Swindon, SN5 7SW, Swindon, UK

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