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East Of England NHS Collaborative Hub c/o West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

EOECPH DPS for Specialist Pharmacy Courier Services for Deliveries to Patients

HealthcareCPV 64120000
Value£20.0m
Deadline11 Jan 2031
Published12 Jan 2021
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 12 Jan 20211630 days leftCloses 11 Jan 2031
Who to contact
pharmacy@eoecph.nhs.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£20.0mtotal contract value
median £200k
this tender£0£21.6m

This is a large award for Postal & Telecommunications — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,074 valued Postal & Telecommunications tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub is looking to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the procurement of Specialist Pharmacy Courier Services for Deliveries to Patients.

The DPS is a two-stage process.

There is no limit on the number of suppliers that may join the DPS.

New suppliers can also apply to join the DPS at any point during its lifetime.Individual contracts are awarded during the second stage.

In this stage, approved users of the DPS (referred to as Contracting Authorities) will invite all suppliers on the DPS for the relevant category to bid for a specific contract.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0289a9
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
000597-2021
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