Aseptic Services to provide Parenteral Nutrition, Biologicals and Chemotherapy products.

Description

The aseptic service provider will be required to prepare and deliver drugs and associated services within a sterile environment by microbiologists, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who make up the bespoke patient doses from base drugs.<br/>The supplier will be expected to provide the service from a fully staffed MHRA compliant manufacturing facility, within 30 minutes of the OX3 9DU postcode.<br/>OUH may purchase the drugs directly, that will be ‘handled’ by the supplier, or instruct the supplier to purchase them on the Trusts behalf to then be rebated on a monthly basis to deliver the compound service.<br/>The supplier will be required to manufacture named patient supply and batch supplies of Parenteral Nutrition, Biologicals and Chemotherapy, Essentially, the supplier will receive raw materials (un-compounded drugs) and process them into tangible products as per the Trusts requirements. Lot 1: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is seeking an Aseptic Service Provider to manufacture, prepare, and deliver drugs and associated services.<br/>The supplier will be expected to provide the service from a fully staffed, Sterile MHRA compliant manufacturing facility, using qualified microbiologists, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who manufacture the bespoke patient doses from base drugs.<br/>Daily deliveries of ‘fresh product’ to the Trust’s sites will be required and sometimes several times a day, due to this the Trust will require the Aseptic Service Provider facility to be based within a 30-minute distribution location due to the expiry of certain drug doses. <br/>The supplier will be required to manufacture named patient supply and batch supplies of Parenteral Nutrition, Biologicals and Chemotherapy. Essentially, the supplier will receive raw materials (un-compounded drugs) and process them into tangible products as per the Trusts’ requirements, with the current levels detailed below:<br/>This will be for Adults, Paediatric and Neonatal patients.<br/>Current annual volume of work is:<br/>— 3 471 Adult standard TPN bags,<br/>— 517 Adult standard TPN bags with tailored additions,<br/>— 2 060 Adult bespoke TPN bags,<br/>— 750 Paediatric TPN Bags as a mixture of batches of standard formulations and tailor-made bags named for patients,<br/>— 4 584 Neonatal TPN bags as a mixture of: standard bags of the shelf, batches of standard formulations and tailored bags named for patients,<br/>— 30 602 named patient cancer chemotherapeutic doses,<br/>— 4 144 named patient mono-clonal antibodies,<br/>OUH may purchase some of the drugs directly, that will be ‘handled’ by the supplier, or instruct the supplier to purchase them on the Trusts’ behalf to then be rebated monthly to deliver the compound service.<br/>The contract will be awarded to the successful supplier for a term of 10 years<br/>Additional CPV Codes;<br/>33600000- Pharmaceutical products<br/>33140000- Medical consumables<br/>85149000 - Pharmacy services<br/>33616000 - Vitamins<br/>33617000- Mineral supplements<br/>33692200- Parenteral nutrition products<br/>33692300- Enteral feeds<br/>3369250- Injectable solutions<br/>33692700 - Glucose solutions<br/>15880000 - Special nutritional products. Additional information: Suppliers must use the project reference C104601 in all correspondence. Suppliers must follow the instructions fully. Suppliers are responsible for their own tender costs.<br/>The Authority will not be responsible for any such costs, or any costs if the procurement is abandoned and/or the contract is not awarded.<br/>The agreement duration will be 120 months. The Authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest offer or any offer either in part, each item for this purpose being treated as separately.<br/>The Authority will not accept completed SQs after the stated closing date.<br/>All tender costs and liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders.<br/>The Authority reserves the right to award the contract in whole, in part for different lots, or annul the tendering process and not award any contract.<br/>All documents to be priced [where applicable] in sterling and all payments made in sterling.<br/>In relation to Section II.1.9 above - variants will be accepted to the extent permitted in the ITPD.<br/>The draft specification is available to bidders who access the procurement documents at SQ stage. The draft contract and procurement documents for additional stages will be issued to the bidders selected at SQ Stage.<br/><br/>Expressions of interest which are submitted without the information requested may not be considered.<br/>The Authority reserves the right not to proceed with the process at any stage of the procurement process and shall not be responsible for any abortive bid costs incurred.