Cheshire and Merseyside Intelligence and Evidence Service

United Kingdom-Birkenhead: Research and development services and related consultancy services

2014/S 194-342971

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Wirral Borough Council
Municipal Building, Cleveland Street
CH41 6BU Birkenhead
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: tenders@wirral.gov.uk

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.3)Main activity

General public services

I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

Cheshire and Merseyside Intelligence and Evidence Service.

II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Services
Service category No 11: Management consulting services [6] and related services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: North West of England.

NUTS code UKD

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

The notice involves a public contract

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The nine Local Authority Public Health teams across Cheshire and Merseyside work together through the Champs Collaborative Service to enable greater access to public health expertise and advice than would otherwise be available through any single local authority.
The collaborative service has received full backing from the nine local authority Chief Executives in Cheshire and Merseyside and is enabling each area to benefit from:
— Maximised economies of scale;
— Increased impact by working together collectively;
— Enabled cross-organisational public health commissioning;
— Shared specialist public health expertise;
— Reduced duplication of effort;
— Continued professional development (CPD) programme and sharing best practice.
The Cheshire and Merseyside Public Health Intelligence Network forms part of the Champs Collaborative Service and brings together Public Health Intelligence leads from across the nine local authorities. This network is the forum where all collaborative intelligence projects are overseen and managed.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

73000000, 73110000

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes

II.1.8)Lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.9)Information about variants

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

This contract is primarily for delivery of goods or services to the nine Local Authority Public Health teams across Cheshire and Merseyside, based in Cheshire East Council, Cheshire West & Chester Council, Halton MBC, Knowsley MBC, Liverpool City Council, St Helens MBC, Sefton MBC, Warrington Council and Wirral Council.
Wirral Council will act as the lead authority for this contractual agreement.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 100 000 GBP

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: no

II.2.3)Information about renewals

II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion

Duration in months: 24 (from the award of the contract)

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

The Council reserves the right to require groupings of service providers to take a particular legal form or to require a single service provider to take primary liability or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability if relevant. Further details will be set out in the tender.

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

III.2)Conditions for participation

III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

III.2.3)Technical capacity

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Open

IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

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

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

An electronic auction will be used: no

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

9L6F- G2D704

IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

20.11.2014 – 12:00

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

English.

IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

VI.2)Information about European Union funds

VI.3)Additional information

The Chest.
Further information relating to this contract can be downloaded from ‘The Chest’: www.thechest.org.uk To take part in any exercise and to express an interest in a contract opportunity, you must register on The Chest. On the Opportunities portal home page there is an option to ‘Register Free’ in the top right hand corner of the screen. If your organisation is already a registered user, you should read the supplier guides available on The Chest. To express your interest in this contract, log on to The Chest and go to ‘Search Latest Opportunities’. All questions relating to this tender must be raised via the Chest. If you experience any technical problems using The Chest, please email: nwsupport@due-north.com or telephone: +44 8452930459.

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

6.10.2014