Purchase and in – Service Support of Mobilisers

Air Defence and Air Traffic Systems Delivery Team, DE&S
Room C48/49, Building 85, Raf Henlow
Contact point(s): Adats Dt Commercial
For the attention of: Lesley Davies
SG16 6DN Henlow
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 14620851515
E-mail: desadats-commercial2b@mod.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)

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions

Defence

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Purchase and in – Service Support of Mobilisers.

Supplies
NUTS code UKH22

The notice involves a public contract

Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation. The ADATS Delivery Team has a requirement for the purchase of quantity 4 sets of mobilisers to enable safe transportation of the Tactical Watchman Cabin and Radar Scanner Pallet. The Mobilisers will be subject to the requirements of relevant UK Legislation: Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations and to the Road Vehicle (Construction and Use) Regulations. The mobilisers will be required to lift the Tactical Watchman Cabins to enable transportation over land, sea and air.
The requirement must:
Meet the ADATS Mobiliser Safety Case Requirements.
Service and upgrade the mobilsers as required.
Comply with Vehicles Construction and Use Regulations 1986 and the LOLER Regulations (entailing vehicle approval from VOSA).
In service Support to enable Design Authority resposnsibilities including Technical Publications management, obsolescence Management, Disposal Plan, Design Drawing updates, Safety Case updates and Training (this list is not exhaustive).
The mobilisers require an appropriate braking system that meets Statutory British Road Regulations.
The required support will be 3 years with 4 one year options.
The mobilisers must be able to lift in excess of 4 500kg.
Suitably qualified companies are invited to submit Expressions of Interest to the ADATS DT and comply with the following criteria:
Quality Assurance Certificate to ISO 9001:2000 or equivalent.
Abrief description of the company and previous experience in respect of the requirement, disclosing the names of organisations to which they have provided similar requirements, including service.
Expressions of Interest are to be submitted by Friday 7.9.2012.
The contract will be awarded on the most economically advantageous taking into account Technical Merit and overall value for money.

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The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no

This contract is divided into lots: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Estimated value excluding VAT: 755 000 GBP

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#dspr.

Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (a) Appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.
(b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established.
(c) A statement of the undertaking’s overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
(a) a list of the works carried out over the past five years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct.
(b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser’s certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator.
(c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator’s undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work.
(d) A description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking’s study and research facilities.
(e) Where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body’s agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate.
(f) The educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking’s managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work.
(g) For public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in appropriate cases, an indication of the environmental management measures that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the contract.
(h) A statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last 3 years.
(i) A statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract.
(j) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.
(k) With regard to the products to be supplied:
(i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests;
(ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.

Restricted

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

An electronic auction will be used: no

ADATS/345

no

Payable documents: no

7.9.2012