Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- NHS Wales Shared Service Partnership · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- The Prison Opticians Company SME
- Value
- £15,120,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 010213-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Mar 2024
- Published28 Mar 2024Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
On Tuesday 16th January 2024 the tender was published on eTenderWales and response was required by a deadline of Thursday 08th February 2024 by 12pm. Out of 2 suppliers who accessed the tender documentation, 1 submitted a response. Bidders were required to respond to a number of qualification questions. The questions were used to assess bidders on the mandatory and discretionary grounds for exclusion and also their technical and professional ability. Responses to these questions were assessed on a pass/ fail basis. A fail on any of these questions would result in a bidder being disqualified from the process. Bidding organisations who score a minimum of 50% or above to each of the Award Criteria weight sections was invited to attend a formal invite to a 10-minute presentation and 10-minite interview to demonstrate how the supplier proposed to deliver the service in line with the Service Specification issued by the Health Board. The Optometry Prison Service was awarded to the supplier T…
About the supplier
The Prison Opticians Company: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06828145).