Servicing and Maintenance of the Medical Gas Pipeline System at Nottingham City Hospital

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Description

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (The Trust) has awarded an interim contract for servicing and maintenance of the medical gas pipeline system (MGPS) located at the Nottingham City Hospital (The Services) following termination of the Previous Contract.The purpose of the Services is to ensure the Trust complies with Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 02-01 as well as applicable standards and relevant legislation.The objective is to ensure the provision of safe and reliable medical gas pipeline system (MGPS) for administering of medical gases (E.g. oxygen) to patients under the care of the Trust whilst a formal procurement exercise is undertaken for a longer term contract (See following link for details: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/084740-2025)An MGPS comprises a source of supply, pipeline distribution system, terminal units (to which the user connects and disconnects medical equipment) and a warning/alarm system. Systems include for, but are not limited to, provision of: oxygen, nitrous oxide and medical air for respiratory and surgical applications.To ensure the MGPS operates safely and reliably, the Trust requires a contractor to provide regular planned preventative maintenance to mitigate risks of faults or failures occurring as well as reactive maintenance services, such as call outs. A minor issue, such as a leak in the pipeline for example, may have major consequences such as patient fatality as a result of oxygen deprivation.The Contract has been procured via further competition as permitted under Lot 11 (Medical Gas Systems) of the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOECPC) NOE.0609 Specialist Estates Engineering & Maintenance Services (Hard FM) Framework: https://www.noecpc.nhs.uk/free-contracts/specialist-estates-engineering-maintena...

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Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 50712000 - Repair and maintenance services of mechanical building installations
• 50700000 - Repair and maintenance services of building installations

Indicators

• Contract modified due to additional needs.

Legal Justification

The previous contract with HAC Technical Gas Services Ltd (The Previous Supplier) was varied toinclude this requirement to generate efficiencies. However, the contract was terminated following thePrevious Supplier entering administration.It is understood the details of the pendant system assets were not provided to the Trust prior to thePrevious Supplier entering administration. Therefore, these items were not included in the currentcontract.It was intended that the servicing to these assets be carried out following tender for the replacementcontract (2025/S 000-084740), however, owing to delays to the procurement timetable, these assets requiremaintenance under the current contr

Reference

• FTS 072360-2026

Domains

• noecpc.nhs.uk
• find-tender.service.gov.uk
• nhs.net
• nuh.nhs.uk
• beaconmedaes.com
• gov.uk