Advance Purchase Agreement for Influenza Pandemic Specific Vaccines

Concepts

• influenza vaccines
• influenza
• advance purchase agreement
• influenza pandemic specific vaccines
• supply of pandemic specific influenza vaccine
• supply of influenza pandemic specific vaccines
• event of a pandemic declaration
• manufacturing capacity

Location

Description

This procurement is for an Advance Purchase Agreement (s) for the supply of Influenza Pandemic Specific Vaccines

Total Quantity or Scope

The Authority wishes to put arrangements in place to reserve manufacturing capacity and secure the supply of pandemic specific influenza vaccine in the event of a pandemic declaration

Renewal Options

The initial term will be 4 years with the option of 3 extensions of 2 years

CPV Codes

• 33651660 - Influenza vaccines

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Options are available.
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Responding to this notice: suppliers who do not respond to this procurement exercise in the following manner may be disqualified from the procurement process provided that the following conditions will operate in addition to & not replace any other conditions stated in the procurement documents which may result in disqualification.1) Submission of expression of interest & procurement specific information. This procurement will be conducted on the eTendering portal at https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Candidates wishing to be considered for this procurement exercise must register & provide additional procurement specific information (if requested), through the eTendering portal as follows:1.1) if not already registered, candidates should register on the eTendering portal at https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome & click the link to register:— ‘accept the terms & conditions’,— enter your correct business details,— click ‘Submit’ when complete,— you will shortly receive an email from the Salesforce platform asking you to finalise your registration;1.2) once registered, candidates must express interest as follows:(a) login to the eTendering portal,(b) select ‘View our Live Opportunities’,(c) select the opportunity that you are interested in,(d) ‘Register interest’,(e) select ‘confirm’,(f) once you have expressed interest, it will move to ‘My Proposals & Quotes’, where you can download additional documentation (if required) & construct your reply as instructed. You must then publish your reply using the ‘Publish’ button;1.3) for any support in registering on the portal or submitting your expression of interest please contact the Atamis Help-desk at +44 8009956035 or support-health@atamis.co.uk2) General supplier information. To manage & assess supplier information the contracting authority requests candidates provide their company profile in the Governments supplier information database, supplier registration, as follows2.1) If not already registered, candidates must go to the following web page https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk & select ‘Register’ at the top right of the page. Key in details as requested to search for your company. If you do not have a D-U-N-S Number, click on the link at the right of the page to obtain a number from D&B. Candidates must obtain a Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) D-U-N-S Number to enable registration on supplier registration.2.2) Once registration is complete you are able to create & update your registered company profile. Candidates should ensure all the mandatory fields of their supplier registration profile are completed & up to date for each procurement exercise. D&B data will be supplied automatically by D&B.2.3) For further help or information concerning supplier registration, please contact the Helpdesk at:support@nqc.com or telephone +44(0)1614137982.The Contract(s) that are concluded as a result of this procurement exercise is for the benefit of the Authority & NHS bodies along with any other non-NHS bodies which are necessary for the delivery of services or goods to NHS bodies, local authorities, other government departments & their executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies charged with the delivery of healthcare or health related services in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies & British Overseas Territories including without limitation, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly, & Scottish Ministers. The resulting products delivered against the Contract(s) may be made available to the UK devolved administrations, Crown Dependencies & British Overseas Territories to undertake their respective vaccination programmes. For the purposes of the this procurement the total value at II.1.5/II.2.6 is the est. cost of the initial term of the agreement (4 years) plus any permitted extensions of (3x2 years)=10 years, including allowance for vaccine costs est. as a % based on the est. likelihood of a pandemic.