Digital Advertising Framework Agreement

Public sector Framework for digital advertising.

United Kingdom-Harrow: Advertising and marketing services

2016/S 121-216897

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

Harrow Council
Civic Centre
For the attention of: Mr Adeel Rajput
HA1 2XY Harrow
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 2084168686
E-mail: adeel.rajput@harrow.gov.uk

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: http://www.harrow.gov.uk

Further information can be obtained from: Harrow Council
Civic Centre
For the attention of: Mr Adeel Rajput
HA1 2XY Harrow
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 2084168686
E-mail: adeel.rajput@harrow.gov.uk

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from:Harrow Council
Civic Centre
For the attention of: Mr Adeel Rajput
HA1 2XY Harrow
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 2084168686
E-mail: adeel.rajput@harrow.gov.uk

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Harrow Council
Civic Centre
For the attention of: Mr Adeel Rajput
HA1 2XY Harrow
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 2084168686
E-mail: adeel.rajput@harrow.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

See Additional Information
United Kingdom

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

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

Digital Advertising Framework Agreement.

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

Services
Service category No 10: Market research and public opinion polling services

NUTS code UK

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

The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

Framework agreement with several operators
Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 3

Duration of the framework agreement

Duration in years: 4

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 50 000 and 128 000 000 GBP

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

The Authority is procuring a Framework Agreement using an EU open procedure, for use by other public sector bodies (Other Contracting Authorities), to appoint multi-suppliers to deliver promotional marketing advertising through the use of the its website(s).

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

79340000

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

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

II.1.8)Lots

II.1.9)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: no

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

The Authority is procuring a Framework Agreement using an EU open procedure, for use by other public sector bodies (Other Contracting Authorities), to appoint multi suppliers to deliver promotional marketing advertising through the use of the its website(s).

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: no

II.2.3)Information about renewals

This contract is subject to renewal: no

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

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

Potential Providers will be advised if this is necessary during the procurement. Parent company and/or other guarantees of performance and financial security and / or stability may be required by Government Procurement Service and individual Contracting Authorities utilising the Framework Agreement if considered appropriate.

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

Please refer to the descriptive documents.

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

Please refer to the descriptive documents.

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no

III.2)Conditions for participation

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

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to the descriptive documents.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to the descriptive documents.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Please refer to the descriptive documents.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
Please refer to the descriptive documents.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Please refer to the descriptive documents.

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no

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

Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: no

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

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no

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:

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

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

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 22.7.2016 – 12:00
Payable documents: yes
Price: 0 GBP

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

22.7.2016 – 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

Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: no

VI.2)Information about European Union funds

The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

VI.3)Additional information

The Authority seeks the provision of a service concession contract Potential Providers should note that, in accordance with the UK Government’s policies on transparency, the London Borough of Harrow intends to publish the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document, and the text of any Framework Agreement awarded,subject to possible redactions at the discretion of London Borough of Harrow. The London Borough of Harrow expressly reserves the right (i) not to award any Framework Agreement as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; and (ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in no circumstances will the Contracting Authority be liable for any costs incurred by the Potential Providers. If the London of Harrow decides to enter into a Framework Agreement with the successful suppliers, this does not mean that there is any guarantee of subsequent contracts being awarded. We cannot guarantee to suppliers any business through this Framework Agreement. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to Framework Agreement award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of Potential Providers. Any orders placed under this Framework Agreement will form a separate contract under the scope of this Framework between the supplier and the specific requesting other contracting body. London Borough of Harrow and other contracting bodies utilising the Framework Agreement reserve the right to use any electronic portal during the life of the agreement. London Borough of Harrow wishes to establish a Framework Agreement for use by the following UK Public Sector bodies (and any future successors to these organisations): — Local Authorities http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/AToZOfLocalCouncils/DG_AZ_ LG — Central Government as identified through the following links: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Government https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations — Transport for London ww.tfl.gov.uk — Transport for Greater Manchester www.tfgm.com — any other UK transport authority listed onhttps://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-transportany —National Parks Authorities http://www.nationalparks.gov.uk —Educational Establishments inEngland and Wales, maintained by the Department for Children, Schools and Families including Schools,Universities and Colleges but not independent Schools http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/public/quickSearchResult.xhtml?myListCount=0 —Police Forces in the United Kingdomhttp://www.police.uk/ —Fireand Rescue Services (including Wales and Northern Ireland) http://www.fireservice.co.uk/ —NHS BodiesEngland including Acute Trusts, Primary Care trusts, Care Trusts, NHS Hospital Trusts, Foundation Trusts,Strategic Health Authorities, Mental Health Trusts, Special Health Authorities, Community Health Councils, Local Health Boards, NHS Trusts including Ambulance Trusts. (NHS Doctors are also eligible to use thisFramework Agreement please see the links below for a list of NHS Doctors). http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/OrganisationsthatworkwithDH/Armslengthbodies/Categorisationofarmslengthbodies/index.htm http://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/Pages/PrimaryCareTrustListing.aspx http://www.general-practitioners-uk.co.uk/—Hospices Hospices in UK including Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland —Registered Social Landlords(Housing Associations)http://portal.tenantservicesauthority.org/ http://www.tenantservicesauthority.org/ —Third Sector and Charities http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/charities-search.htm http://www.oscr.org.uk/ —Citizens Advicehttp://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/aboutus/citizens_advice_offices.htm Scottish Public Bodies —Scottish Government http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Home —Scottish Local Authorities http://www.scotland-excel.org.uk/customers/index.asp — ScottishAgencies and NDPBshttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies — Scottish NHS Bodies http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/Boards —Scottish Further and Higher Education Bodies http://www.sfc.ac.uk/about_the_council/council_funded_institutions/council_funded_institutions.aspx — Scottish Police http://www.scottish.police.uk/ — Scottish Fire and Rescue http://www.dontgivefireahome.com/fire_safety/1347.html —Scottish Housing Associations http://www.sfha.co.uk/component/option,com_membersdir/Itemid,149/view,membersdir/ —Scottish Parliamenthttp://www.scottish.parliament.uk/ —The Scotland Office http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/10786.html — Scotland Citizens Advicehttp://www.cas.org.uk/find-a-bureau/all-scottish-bureaux —Scottish Primary Schools http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/index.asp?schoolsearchstring=&addresssearchstring=&authority=&strTypes=isprimaryschool&bSubmit=1&Submit=Search —Scottish Secondary Schoolshttp://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/index.asp?schoolsearchstring=&addresssearchstring=&authority=&strTypes=issecondaryschool&bSubmit=1&Submit=Search —Scottish Special Schoolshttp://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/index.asp?schoolsearchstring=&addresssearchstring=&authority=&strTypes=isspecial&bSubmit=1&Submit=Search Welsh Public Bodies —WelshPublic Bodies National Assembly for Wales, Welsh Assembly Government and Welsh Local Authorities http://new.wales.gov.uk/?lang=en http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/dl1/directories/localcouncils/dg_065241 — NHS Wales and NHS Wales GP Practices http://www.wales.nhs.uk/ourservices/directory NI Public Bodies —Northern Ireland Government Departments http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/gov.htm —Northern Ireland Public Sector Bodies and Local Authorities http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/az2.htm —Schools in Northern Ireland and Further and Higher Education establishments in Northern Irelandhttp://apps.deni.gov.uk/appinstitutes/instmain.aspx — Public Bodies involved in Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=hospitals http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=boards http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=agencies http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=councils — Police Service of Northern Ireland http://www.police-information.co.uk/policedirectory/ view.php?id=31&page=0&cat=6&subcat=31&subsubcat=0 —Citizens Advice Northern Irelandhttp://www.citizensadvice.co.uk/en/Where-We-Are/Bureaus/ http://www.citizensadvice.co.uk/en/About-Us/Contact/ —Department of Health bodies and NHS bodies in existence at the time of this tender and those created under any NHS restructure; — Private sector organisations wishing to purchase NHS printed items and wishing to use associated services (e.g. pharmacists); —Public sector bodies wishing to purchase NHS printed items and wishing to use associated services; —Voluntary and third sector bodies and charities wishing to purchase NHS printed items and wishing to use associated services; Tenderers must note that the NHS is undergoing a fundamental restructure and may be in a very different structure than at the time of this tender. Broadly, the operation of an NHS Contract awarded under this Framework Agreement may become more complex as the number of ordering, delivery and invoice points may increase significantly.