{ "tag": [ "compiled" ], "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-050cfd-2025-10-13T08:28:33+01:00", "date": "2025-10-13T08:28:33+01:00", "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-050cfd", "initiationType": "tender", "parties": [ { "id": "GB-NHS-RAJ", "name": "Mid South Essex NHS Foundation Trust", "identifier": { "scheme": "GB-NHS", "id": "RAJ" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Nether Mayne", "locality": "Basildon", "postalCode": "SS16 5NL", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom", "region": "UKH37" }, "contactPoint": { "name": "Customer Care", "email": "customercare@htepg.com", "telephone": "01268 524900" }, "roles": [ "buyer" ], "details": { "url": "https://www.mse.nhs.uk/", "classifications": [ { "scheme": "UK_CA_TYPE", "id": "publicAuthorityCentralGovernment", "description": "Public authority - central government" } ] } }, { "id": "GB-COH-OC358224", "name": "HealthTrust Europe LLP", "identifier": { "scheme": "GB-COH", "id": "OC358224" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "19 George Road", "locality": "Birmingham", "postalCode": "B15 1NU", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom", "region": "UKG31" }, "contactPoint": { "name": "Customer Care", "email": "customercare@htepg.com", "telephone": "08458875000" }, "roles": [ "procuringEntity", "processContactPoint" ], "roleDetails": "On 11th August 2021, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSE) published a contract notice for procurement partner services. HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) was selected to provide these services under the MSE Framework, including access to HTE's public sector frameworks. HTE is now conducting this procurement exercise as part of its services to the Customers under the MSE Framework.", "details": { "url": "https://www.healthtrusteurope.com" } } ], "buyer": { "id": "GB-NHS-RAJ", "name": "Mid South Essex NHS Foundation Trust" }, "planning": { "milestones": [ { "id": "engagement", "type": "engagement", "description": "HTE plans to conduct engagement through meetings/in-person discussions/telephone discussions with potential suppliers who are able to provide Slide Storage Services. This engagement exercise aims to establish - * A suitable procurement procedure and award criteria to align to the market; * Specification development and understanding of solutions available in the market; * Identify all potential suppliers of this requirement (including SMEs and VCSEs) and give them the opportunity to be awarded to the Framework; * Understanding commercial structure that aligns to the market expectations and will meet the requirements of any Contracting Authorities; and * Notifying the market and building capacity to prepare for the procurement and contract award. Interested parties please reach out to Eman Majid (eman.majid@htepg.com) at HealthTrust Europe to schedule engagement meeting.", "dueDate": "2025-06-20T23:59:59+01:00", "status": "scheduled" } ], "documents": [ { "id": "019043-2025", "documentType": "marketEngagementNotice", "noticeType": "UK2", "description": "Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender", "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019043-2025", "datePublished": "2025-05-06T12:01:14+01:00", "format": "text/html" }, { "id": "024459-2025", "documentType": "plannedProcurementNotice", "noticeType": "UK1", "description": "Pipeline notice on Find a Tender", "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/024459-2025", "datePublished": "2025-05-22T09:24:12+01:00", "format": "text/html" }, { "id": "064540-2025", "documentType": "plannedProcurementNotice", "noticeType": "UK3", "description": "Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender", "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/064540-2025", "datePublished": "2025-10-13T08:28:33+01:00", "format": "text/html" } ] }, "tender": { "id": "PR-4691", "legalBasis": { "id": "2023/54", "scheme": "UKPGA", "uri": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents" }, "title": "Slide Storage", "description": "Storage, Retrieval and Management Solutions for Pathology Samples, Blocks and Slides associated consumables, software and services. Offsite archive storage and retrieval services for: * Glass slides and their associated documentation. * Wax blocks and their associated documentation. Includes associated software solutions to support with the management, archive, retrieval of pathology samples (in any form). Includes consumables associated with management, archive, retrieval of pathology samples (in any form). Includes scanning slides as a service and then ongoing storage and retrieval of the glass slides and images. Key services covered: * Storage (physical and virutal) * Retrieval / Transport * Management of Inventory * Scanning projects * Software / IMS * Consumables associated Items covered: * pathology glass slides of tissue samples; * wax blocked with fixed tissue samples; * any other sample or tissue sample originating within a pathology department in any format; * associated documentation with any of the above.", "items": [ { "id": "1", "additionalClassifications": [ { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "63121000", "description": "Storage and retrieval services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "63122000", "description": "Warehousing services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85111800", "description": "Pathology services" } ], "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UK", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, { "region": "UK", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, { "region": "UK", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom" } ], "relatedLot": "1" }, { "id": "2", "additionalClassifications": [ { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "63121000", "description": "Storage and retrieval services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "63122000", "description": "Warehousing services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85111800", "description": "Pathology services" } ], "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UK", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom" } ], "relatedLot": "2" }, { "id": "3", "additionalClassifications": [ { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "63121000", "description": "Storage and retrieval services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "63122000", "description": "Warehousing services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85111800", "description": "Pathology services" } ], "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UK", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom" } ], "relatedLot": "3" }, { "id": "4", "additionalClassifications": [ { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "63121000", "description": "Storage and retrieval services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "63122000", "description": "Warehousing services" }, { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85111800", "description": "Pathology services" } ], "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UK", "country": "GB", "countryName": "United Kingdom" } ], "relatedLot": "4" } ], "value": { "amountGross": 120000000, "amount": 100000000, "currency": "GBP" }, "mainProcurementCategory": "services", "aboveThreshold": true, "techniques": { "hasFrameworkAgreement": true, "frameworkAgreement": { "isOpenFrameworkScheme": true, "method": "withAndWithoutReopeningCompetition", "type": "open", "buyerCategories": "The framework will be open to all UK contracting authorities as defined in Section 1 of the Procurement Act 2023. In particular, entities of a health and/or social care nature listed in the spreadsheet at https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/economicstatisticsclassifications/introductiontoeconomicstatisticsclassifications are envisaged as users. This includes each organisation's successors, assigns, equivalents, and associated bodies formed through organisational changes. The framework is open to: any UK health/social care bodies; organisations with similar procurement needs; and UK central government authorities listed in Annex I of Directive 2014/24/EU, where still relevant under retained EU law and consistent with the Procurement Act 2023.", "description": "Suppliers will be ranked based on their technical and commercial scores at award stage of this Framework. Call Off contracts will then be awarded via Direct Award or through further mini-competition with awarded suppliers under the applicable Lots. Specific technical and/or commercial elements will be awarded, scored and fed back on for all suppliers at framework award stage. Due to the unique nature of these services, they may align to a customers requirements in these areas. These unique requirements and service offerings will be differentiators at any call off stage, as well as any specific technical or commercial requirements presented by suppliers on the public sector landscape.", "openFrameworkSchemeEndDate": "2034-01-18T23:59:59+00:00" } }, "lots": [ { "id": "1", "suitability": { "sme": true, "vcse": true }, "contractPeriod": { "startDate": "2026-01-19T00:00:00+00:00", "endDate": "2029-01-18T23:59:59+00:00", "maxExtentDate": "2034-01-18T23:59:59+00:00" }, "status": "planned", "title": "Lot 1: Storage, Retrieval and Management of Pathology Samples", "description": "Core requirements: Physical storage and management of Pathology Samples and associated records, retrieval of Pathology Samples and transportation, inventory management, destruction of Pathology Samples. Optional requirements: provision of consumables associated with the Core requirements.", "value": { "amountGross": 48000000, "amount": 40000000, "currency": "GBP" }, "awardCriteria": { "criteria": [ { "type": "quality", "name": "Technical (including 10% Social Value)", "numbers": [ { "number": 70, "weight": "percentageExact" } ] }, { "type": "cost", "name": "Commercial", "numbers": [ { "number": 30, "weight": "percentageExact" } ] } ] }, "selectionCriteria": { "criteria": [ { "type": "economic", "description": "As per \"ITT Guidance - Framework - Slide Storage\" and PSQ requirements." }, { "type": "technical", "description": "As per \"ITT Guidance - Framework - Slide Storage\" and PSQ requirements." } ] }, "hasRenewal": true, "renewal": { "description": "Commencement Date of first Framework. Duration of first framework: 3 years. Re-opening of first framework to Tenderers 6 months before expiry. Second framework commencement and duration: 2 years. Re-opening of second framework to Tenderers 6 months before expiry. Third framework commencement and duration: 3 years HTE reserves the right to extend each of the frameworks above by a further 12 months in line with section 49 of the Procurement Act. The maximum period of the Framework shall be 8 years including any extension options that have been applied." } }, { "id": "2", "title": "Lot 2: Pathology Slide Scanning Services and Solutions", "description": "Core requirements: Off Site Pathology slide scanning to generate Whole Slide Images, electronic retrieval services Whole Slide Images and retrieval of Pathology Samples and transportation. 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