Official UK procurement notice
Nicotine Replacement Therapy and AI Digital Smoking Cessation Coaching
Authority: Suffolk County Council (Local council)
Procurement for the supply and distribution of Nicotine Replacement Therapy items to support the Suffolk County Council smoking cessation service. This service will be required to complement the NHS Quit Smoking app and NHS Better Health/quite smoking website. Contract Period: 2 years with an option to extend for up to a further 1 year. The split will be set to enable an appropriate balance between the need to seek best price and the scoring of quality for bids received.Early Market EngagementAhead of any call for competition the Council are looking to invite all interested parties to a virtual Market Engagement Event:Date: 24th May 2023 10:30am – 1:00pmVirtual event via: Microsoft TeamsWe would like to share draft documentation at this event, and we would welcome your input and suggestions at this on how the services might be best delivered in Suffolk.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProcurement for the supply and distribution of Nicotine Replacement Therapy items to support the Suffolk County Council smoking cessation service. This service will be required to complement the NHS Quit Smoking app and NHS Better Health/quite smoking website. The current service contract runs out 30th September 2023 and we had hoped to join an NHS national framework for supply due to start in September, but this has now been delayed therefore we are seeking to establish our own contract.Contract Start Date: 1st October 2023. Contract Period: 2 years with an option to extend for up to a further 1 year.
CPV: Community health services · Health and social work services · Health services · Miscellaneous health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The tender will be run as a single stage Open ProcedurePlanned
The tender will be run as a single stage Open Procedure. The value of the procurement is above threshold, the subject matter sits within Schedule 3 so falls within scope of the Light Touch Regime of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The contract notice will be advertised on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder as well as being advertised on SCC’s In-Tend Platform Suffolk Sourcing.The tender process will be conducted electronically through Suffolk Sourcing.Tender returns will be evaluated, and contracts awarded based on a price/quality split. Details will be published in the tender documentation. The split will be set to enable an appropriate balance between the need to seek best price and the scoring of quality for bids received.Early Market EngagementAhead of any call for competition the Council are looking to invite all interested parties to a virtual Market Engagement Event:Date: 24th May 2023 10:30am – 1:00pmVirtual event via: Microsoft TeamsWe would like to share draft documentation at this event, and we would welcome your input and suggestions at this on how the services might be best delivered in Suffolk. To book your place on this event please email phil.gardener@suffolk.gov.uk
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 May 2023, 10:22 BST
- Last source update
- 9 May 2023, 10:22 BST
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-013072- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c70cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
9 May 2023 → 5 Jul 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published9 May 2023, 10:22 BST
- Tender notice expected5 Jul 2023, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.