Pharmaceutical products

Tender description

The contracting authority seeks to establish multiple contracts for the supply of additional pharmaceutical products for a UK stockpile of medicines for Covid-19 preparedness. The Department of Health and Social Care are managing the procurement on behalf of Public Health England. The Department of Health and Social Care intend to run a procurement exercise to source additional pharmaceutical products for a UK stockpile of medicines for Covid-19 preparedness. The stockpile will cover additional intensive care unit medicines, antibiotics and end of life care medicines. The UK stockpile tender exercise will be performed through the online application Atamis procurement software. This tender will be following an open accelerated procedure with a 15-day completion time frame. The contractual period is proposed for 12 months with the option to extend annually for 2 further years. The UK tender is a stockpile tender where it is proposed that 30 products in 72 presentations will be tendered in 30 lots and to be purchased by Public Health England. Full evaluation criteria is detailed within the ITT documentation — failure to return requested information may result in submissions being rejected as non-compliant.