CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

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Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

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Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

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Description

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Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Worcestershire Radiotherapy Facility Treatment Planning System.

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Type of works contract

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Type of supplies contract

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Type of service contract

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Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

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This notice involves a framework agreement

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Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Radiotherapy supplies. Planning systems. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, in collaboration with the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, is as a result seeking a radiotherapy treatment planning system that supports a twinned center model of care and which is capable of planning both conformal and IMRT beam radiotherapy treatments.

A treatment planning system is required for the new Radiotherapy facility at the Worcester Royal Hospital which is currently under construction. This new facility will form a twinned centre model with the Radiotherapy facility in the Arden Cancer Centre at the University Hospital in Coventry. Key components of the strategy for the new centre are maximising the delivery of patient activity in Worcestershire for Worcestershire patients, which will at least initially mean some treatment planning for Worcestershire patients being carried out in Coventry and an ability to share scarce staff resources, including Radiotherapy Physics staff (Physicists, Dosimetrists and engineers) and Therapy Radiographers between the 2 centres.

On opening in January 2015 the Worcester radiotherapy facility will be equipped with 3 Elekta Synergy linacs all of which will have Agility MLCs and 2 will have IGRT capabilities.

We require a treatment planning system for the Worcester facility that will allow planning of both conformal and IMRT treatments. The Arden Cancer Centre currently is equipped with Prosoma for tumour outlining and conformal plan verification, XiO for conformal treatment planning and Monaco 3 for IMRT planning. There is a recognition that (a) the latest generation of treatment planning systems support both conformal and IMRT treatments; and (b) XiO, whilst currently supported, does not represent a strategic way forward for the twinned centre model.

This is a new requirement for the Trust and WAHT are looking to establish a contract for the provision of a patient treatment planning system that will accommodate the trusts requirements whilst achieving best value pricing.

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Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

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Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

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Total final value of the contract(s)

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Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

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Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

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An electronic auction has been used

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Administrative information

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File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

RAD1

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Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

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Date of contract award:

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Numbers of offers received:

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Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

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Information on value of contract

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The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section VI: Complementary Information

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Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

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Additional Information

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GO Reference: GO-2015126-PRO-6318078.

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Procedures for appeal

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Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

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Lodging of appeals

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Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

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Dispatch date of this Notice