Competitive Procedure with Negotiation to award a Contract for Provision of the Outsourced Management and Operation of the Irish Institute of Pharmacy

Short description

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland(PSI) wishes to appoint a Service Provider

a Contract for the Provision of Outsourced Management and Operation of the Irish Institute of Pharmacy(IIOP). This is the first stage of a two-stage procedure tender process. Suitably qualified suppliers are hereby invited to submit a response to this questionnaire in order to be considered for inclusion on the tender list. Following evaluation, the top 5 scoring applicants will be invited to tender, should that number qualify.

It is anticipated that the contract will commence in January 2018. It is envisaged that the contract will be for up to five years.

Please refer to the RFT documents available for downloading from www.etenders.gov.ie

Additional information

The eTenders reference for this procurement is: 120609

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.

2)This is the sole call for requests to participate for this contract

3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers whether or not a final contract is awarded.

4) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the Council of the PSI.

5) lt will be a condition of any Services Contract pursuant to this Competition that the successful Tenderer(s) shall, for the term of such contract(s), comply with all EU and domestic tax laws. Tenderers are referred to www.revenue.ie for further information.

6) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any contract awarded at any time.

7) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended.

8) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of the procurement documents with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, respondents are advised to ensure that they return completed documentation in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.

9) At Section II.2.9 we have indicated that 5 applicants will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting authority reserves the right to invite the top 5 subject to that number qualifying.

10) Requests to Participate must be delivered as per the Instructions.

11) The PSI will not accept or consider Requests to Participate delivered after this deadline.

12)The PSI is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOl) 2014. If you consider that any of the information supplied by you is either commercially sensitive or confidential in nature, this should be highlighted and the reasons for the sensitivity specified. In such cases, the relevant material, will in response to the FOl request; be examined in the light of the exemptions provided for in the Acts.

13) The PSI reserves the right without advance notice (and without giving reasons unless so required by law and without liability to the applicants) to amend or otherwise change the process or to terminate the process.

14)The Contracting Authority will invite the 5 most suitable applicants to participate in this procedure and reserves the right to successively reduce the number of tenderers during the course of the negotiations. At its absolute discretion, the Contracting Authority reserves the right to award the contract strictly on foot of the original tenders and to dispense entirely with the option of negotiations with tenderers should it consider this to be appropriate. The contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.