Supply of Indirect Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (iELISA) Bovine Serum)

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Supply of 1 million tests on a drawdown basis for an Indirect Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (iELISA) capable of identifying antibodies to Brucella Abortus in Bovine Serum (on individual and pooled bovine serum samples).
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=422772.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2012-06-18. The procurement was published on 2012-05-03.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2012-05-03 Contract notice
Contract notice (2012-05-03)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: immunoassay analysers
Quantity or scope: One million iELISA tests for delivery on a drawdown basis.
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Immunoassay analysers 📦

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority
Awarding authority name: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Postal address: ERAD Division, Block B, Backweston, Co. Kildare
Postal town: Celbridge
Contact
Internet address: http://www.agriculture.gov.ie 🌏
E-mail: mary.jennings@agriculture.gov.ie 📧
Phone: +353 15058725 📞
Fax: +353 16276448 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2012-05-03 📅
Submission deadline: 2012-06-18 📅
Publication date: 2012-05-08 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2012/S 88-144583
OJ-S issue: 88
Additional information
All documentation requested at section 3.2.A and 3.2.B of RFT must be submitted if tenderer is to progress to the evaluation stage. The Contracting Authority will apply the award criteria following the assessment of the sample test kit supplied and based on a thorough laboratory evaluation performed under routine working conditions within a large scale serodiagnostic facility. Award Criteria as follows: — ultimate cost - 400 marks, — technical merit (test performance criteria as follows) - 400 marks, — sensitivity, — specificity, — repeatability, — reproducibility and, — ease of use, — quality of product (as follows) - 100 marks, — presentation, — packaging, — labelling of kit, — quality of contingency arrangements - 100 marks. For the supply of the iELISA kits during the duration of the contract. (ET Ref:422772).
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Supply of 1 million tests on a drawdown basis for an Indirect Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (iELISA) capable of identifying antibodies to Brucella Abortus in Bovine Serum (on individual and pooled bovine serum samples).
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=422772.
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:
All canditates are required to complete and sign Appendix 5 attaching to the RFT.
Economic and financial standing:
(1) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.
(2) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice.
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(3) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.
Any other information that the tenderer wishes to provide to prove his/her financial capacity.
A copy of the most recent year/part year accounts (balance sheet and Profit and Loss).
Technical and professional ability:
(1) A statement of the candidate's average annual number of staff and managerial staff over the previous 3 years.
(2) All candidates will be required to provide certification drawn up by an independent body attesting the compliance of the economic operator with quality assurance standards based on the relevant European standards
(3) Samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests
(4) A statement of the principal goods sold or services provided by the supplier or the services provider in the past 3 years, detailing the dates on which the goods were sold or the services provided; the consideration received; the identity of the person to whom the goods were sold or the services were provided.
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(5) A statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract.
Tenderers are required to submit one complete sample kit which must contain all the reagents necessary to perform an indirect ELISA for Brucella abortus on indivdual and pooled bovine serum samples.
Tenderers must submit supporting documentation including validation data in respect of the test kit as they propose to supply see section 3.2.B number 5 of RFT.

Procedure
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Mary Jennings
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA02565 🌏
Name: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Postal address: ERAD Division Block B, Backweston, Co. Kildare
URL for further information: http://www.agriculture.gov.ie 🌏
Phone: +353 16072000 📞
Fax: +353 16611693 📠
URL for documents: http://www.agriculture.gov.ie 🌏
URL for participation: http://www.agriculture.gov.ie 🌏

Reference
Dates
Publication date: 2009-05-15 📅
Identifiers
Notice number in the OJ S: 2009/S 93-133134
Additional information
All documentation requested at section 3.2.A and 3.2.B of RFT must be submitted if tenderer is to progress to the evaluation stage.
The Contracting Authority will apply the award criteria following the assessment of the sample test kit supplied and based on a thorough laboratory evaluation performed under routine working conditions within a large scale serodiagnostic facility.
Award Criteria as follows:
— ultimate cost - 400 marks,
— technical merit (test performance criteria as follows) - 400 marks,
— sensitivity,
— specificity,
— repeatability,
— reproducibility and,
— ease of use,
— quality of product (as follows) - 100 marks,
— presentation,
— packaging,
— labelling of kit,
— quality of contingency arrangements - 100 marks.
For the supply of the iELISA kits during the duration of the contract.
(ET Ref:422772).

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Postal address: ERAD Division, Block B, Backweston, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
Postal town: Celbridge
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2012/S 088-144583 (2012-05-03)
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