Provision of Support Services for an Outpatient Parental Antimicrobial Therapy Service for the HSE

Health Service Executive (HSE)

The HSE invites Expressions of Interest from suitably qualified tenderers who wish to participate in a competition for the provision of Support Services for an Outpatient AntiMicrobial Therapy Service for the HSE.
The required Services are Annex IIB services, and accordingly, only Articles 23 & 35 (4) of the onsolidated Public Procurement Directive 2004/18/EC for Award of public service contracts, as amended, apply to the award of any contract arising from this process.
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders Web Site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=432132.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2012-05-29. The procurement was published on 2012-05-22.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2012-05-22 Contract notice
Contract notice (2012-05-22)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: health services
Quantity or scope:
The HSE wishes to engage a Service Provider to support the delivery of a national service for the administration of out-patient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in Ireland. OPAT can be defined as the delivery of intravenous antimicrobials in a non-inpatient setting.An OPAT service comprises three distinct, interrelated delivery models/ strands:1: Self-administered out-patient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (S-OPAT),2: Administration by a Healthcare Professional in the patient’s home (H-OPAT).3: Administration in a community healthcare facility or hospital clinicAll HSE Hospitals and HSE funded Hospitals are covered within the scope of this tender and are hereafter referred to as HSE.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Health services 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Health Service Executive (HSE)
Postal address: Head Office, Oak House, Limetree Avenue, Millennium Park, Co. Kildare
Postal town: Naas
Contact
Internet address: http://www.hse.ie 🌏
Phone: +353 45880400 📞
Fax: +353 1890200893 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2012-05-22 📅
Submission deadline: 2012-05-29 📅
Publication date: 2012-05-30 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2012/S 101-168431
OJ-S issue: 101
Additional information
N/a. (ET Ref:432132).

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The HSE invites Expressions of Interest from suitably qualified tenderers who wish to participate in a competition for the provision of Support Services for an Outpatient AntiMicrobial Therapy Service for the HSE.
The required Services are Annex IIB services, and accordingly, only Articles 23 & 35 (4) of the onsolidated Public Procurement Directive 2004/18/EC for Award of public service contracts, as amended, apply to the award of any contract arising from this process.
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Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders Web Site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=432132.
Quantity or scope:
The HSE wishes to engage a Service Provider to support the delivery of a national service for the administration of out-patient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) in Ireland. OPAT can be defined as the delivery of intravenous antimicrobials in a non-inpatient setting.
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An OPAT service comprises three distinct, interrelated delivery models/ strands:
1: Self-administered out-patient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (S-OPAT),
2: Administration by a Healthcare Professional in the patient’s home (H-
OPAT).
3: Administration in a community healthcare facility or hospital clinic
All HSE Hospitals and HSE funded Hospitals are covered within the scope of this tender and are hereafter referred to as HSE.
Description of options:
The contract will be awarded for a period of two years; the HSE reserves the right to extend the contract for three additional periods of up to twelve months each, subject to annual review.
Reference number: HSE 077/12
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Ireland.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
Please see expression of interest documentation available on www.etenders.gov.ie for further information.
Economic and financial standing:
Please see expression of interest documentation available on www.etenders.gov.ie for further information.
Minimum level(s) of standards:
Please see expression of interest documentation available on www.etenders.gov.ie for further information.
Technical and professional ability:
Please see expression of interest documentation available on www.etenders.gov.ie for further information.
Contract execution
Deposits and guarantees required: N/A.
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: N/A.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded.
No specific legal form is required. Should the contract be awarded to a consortium, each firm in the consortium shall be jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority for the fulfilment of the terms of the contract, with each supplier required to become jointly and severally responsible for the contract before acceptance.
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Submissions should make clear which companies are proposed to be members of the consortium (and jointly and severally liable to the Contracting Authority) and which are to be sub-contractors. Subsequent changes to the members of the consortium may result in disqualification of that group.
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Please see expression of interest documentation available on www.etenders.gov.ie for further information.
Names and professional qualifications of the staff ✅

Procedure
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Objective criteria for selection:
As per criteria outlined in Expression of Interest documentation available on www.etenders.gov.ie for further information.
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2012-06-01 📅
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Portfolio & Category Management
Assistant National Director, Portfolio & Category Management
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA7381 🌏
Name: Health Service Executive (HSE)
Postal address: St Finbarrs Hospital, Douglas Road, Co. Cork
Postal town: Cork
Contact point: Portfolio & Category Management, HSE Procurement
Anne-Louise Neenan
Phone: +353 214923059 📞
E-mail: annelouise.neenan@hse.ie 📧
Fax: +353 214923380 📠
URL for further information: http://www.hse.ie 🌏
URL for documents: http://www.hse.ie 🌏
Postal address: St Finbarrs Hospital, Douglas Road, Co.Cork
Contact point: HSE Procurement
URL for participation: http://www.hse.ie 🌏

Reference
Identifiers
Reference number attributed by the contracting authority: HSE 077/12
Additional information
N/a.
(ET Ref:432132).

Complementary information
Review body
Information about review deadlines: N/A as Annex IIB Process.
Source: OJS 2012/S 101-168431 (2012-05-22)
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