Medicines Management Service

Tender description

The provision of a medicines management service for a period of 15 years from the services commencement date as further described in II.2.4). Lot 1: The Trust intends to award a contract to to IBSL (UK) Ltd and Deenova SrL (the ‘Suppliers’) for the provision of a medicines management service which is an integrated IT, robotic and automated medicines storage and delivery solution that includes: • the provision of an off-site Unit Dose Laboratory (UDL) including enabling works; • provision of UDL staff; • all enabling works at the Trust; • installation and maintenance of automated medicines cabinets on wards; • integration with the Trust pharmacy ordering and receipt system; • integration with the Trust e-prescribing system; • integration with the Trust patient admission, discharge and transfer system; • integration with the Trust pharmacy ordering and receipt system; • equipment and hardware (robotics, carts, trolleys, devices); • enabling works – through a sub-contractor, to be approved by the Authority; • transportation from the UDL to the Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital and Glenfield Hospital (any other sites in the future that may be under the control of the Trust); • training of Trust staff. For the avoidance of doubt the contract will have an enabling phase and the 15-year term shall not start until the ‘Services Commencement Date’ when the Trust will pay a monthly service charge in line with the contract. The Trust will enter into a contract following a minimum 10 day standstill period starting the day after this notice is published in the Official Journal of the European Union.