Dropper Bottles

A Tender Notice
by NHS WALES SHARED SERVICES PARTNERSHIP

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Goods)
Duration
35.5 month
Value
£-£509K
Sector
FACILITY
Published
09 Feb 2021
Delivery
To 23 Feb 2024 (est.)
Deadline
10 Mar 2021 14:00

Concepts

Location

Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan: Welsh External Quality Assurance Service [WEQAS] Llanishen, Cardiff

Geochart for 1 buyers and 0 suppliers

1 buyer

Description

The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Weqas who operates as an independent organisation, hosted by Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board. Weqas are seeking to establish a contract for Dropper Bottles. Weqas is one of the largest External Quality Assessment providers in the UK, with over 50 years of experience in delivering global Quality Assurance Programmes in Laboratory Medicine. Weqas operates at Unit 6, Parc Ty Glas, Cardiff. The majority of Weqas' EQA material is manufactured in-house, and the items sought below are necessary for the production of our Glucose & Ketone EQA material. These products are utilised in a semi automated dispensing system, therefore, there are specific requirements to enable them to be used with this system, as stated in each indivdual lot specification within the tender documents. Item 1 – LDPE Dropper Bottle Cylinder Round Natural Item 2 – Extended Control Dropper Tip LDPE Natural Item 3 – Dropper Tip Cap (any colour) Bidders should be aware that Weqas is seeking to evaluate the options available for provision of their Glucose & Ketone EQA programme and are looking at options for potentially outsourcing the entire process. Bidders can submit tenders for one or more Lots, however, it should be noted that Weqas will award a single lot only.

Lot Division

1 Supply Only of Dropper Bottles

This contract is for the supply of Dropper Bottles only. The bottle must be; - Natural LDPE dropper bottle to be able to hold at least 0.5 ml serum - Bottle diameter at it's largest part must be within the range of 13 mm to 14 mm due to the dispensing system in use currently and existing specimen packaging - The neck diameter must be no smaller than 6mm (tolerance of 0.4mm around this) due to the dispensing system in use currently - The bottle must be transparent to ensure ease of product testing after filling of bottle as there is a requirement to see the liquid within the bottle
2 Supply and Fill of Dropper bottles and Material (provided by Weqas)

This lot is for the supply and fill of Dropper bottles with the material provided by Weqas.
3 Dropper bottle supply and filling with material provided by Weqas, plus labelling of finished product

This contract is for the Dropper bottle supply, filling with material provided by Weqas and labelling of finished product.
4 Provision of Glucose & Ketone EQA material supplied in dropper bottles

This contract is for the provision of Glucose and Ketone EQA material supplied in dropper bottles.

CPV Codes

  • 39225710 - Bottles

Indicators

  • Variant bids are not accepted.
  • This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
  • Renewals are not available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Please note additional information on this procurement: 1. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to award the contract in whole, in part or annul the tendering process and not award any contract. 2. Bidders should note that they will be required to enter into terms and conditions of contract as set out in the ITT and that save for matters of clarification or consistency the Contracting Authority will not negotiate the terms. 3. The Contracting Authority will not accept completed ITT's after the stated closing date. 4. All documents to be priced (where applicable) in sterling and all payments made in sterling. 5. All tender costs and liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders. 6. Prospective suppliers should note that NHS Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services is acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board. 7. Bidders wishing to participate should visit the Bravo e-tenderwales portal and access the itt_85824 for all tender documentation. NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=108082 (WA Ref:108082) The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia.

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