Higher Education Longitudinal Study
HESA is proposing to offer a 1-year 1 contract term and will require the appointed contractor to conduct the survey in 2016.
United Kingdom-Cheltenham: Market and economic research; polling and statistics
2016/S 028-045451
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
95 The Promenade
GL50 1HZ Cheltenham
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1242211105
E-mail: LDLHE-procurement@hesa.ac.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 24: Education and vocational education services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Cheltenham.
NUTS code UKK13
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The requirement is for a contractor to undertake a Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey. HESA is proposing to offer a 1-year 1 contract term and will require the appointed contractor to conduct the survey in 2016. There may be potential for a second survey in 2018 should funding be available or indeed if the requirement for this data collection remains following the outcomes of the sector review of graduate destination and outcomes data (https://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/3779)
Contractors will be required to provide a complete quality assured and documented data-set to HESA for onward analysis.
Will bidders please note that this requirement is time-critical and this new contract needs to be in place no later than the end of June in order for the survey to commence by 1.8.2016.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
79300000, 79311000, 79311100, 79311200, 79311210
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
The requirement is for a contractor to undertake a Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey. HESA is proposing to offer a 1-year 1 contract term and will require the appointed contractor to conduct the survey in 2016. There may be potential for a second survey in 2018 should funding be available or indeed if the requirement for this data collection remains following the outcomes of the sector review of graduate destination and outcomes data (https://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/3779)
Contractors will be required to provide a complete quality assured and documented data-set to HESA for onward analysis.
Will bidders please note that this requirement is time-critical and this contract needs to be in place no later than the end of June in order for the surveys to commence by 1.8.2016.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 750 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
II.2.3)Information about renewals
Number of possible renewals: 1
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: The most economically advantageous tender and the ability to meet HESA’s time schedule.
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: HESA will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period from the date information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from HESA before a contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from the Company Secretary, HESA, — LDLHE-procurement@hesa.ac.uk If an appeal regarding the award of a contract is not successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England).
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: