Education and Vocational Training Services Leicestershire

Delivery of Education and Vocational training services activity funded through the European Social Fund (ESF) to support individuals who are NEET or in danger of becoming NEET.

United Kingdom-Coventry: Education and training services

2015/S 238-432675

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

The contracting authority is the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills acting through the Skills Funding Agency (SFA)
Cheylesmore House, Quinton Road
For the attention of: Responsible Officer Senior
CV1 2WT Coventry
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 8450194170
E-mail: procurementhelp@sfa.bis.gov.uk
Fax: +44 2476823675

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: https://www.gov.uk/…/department-for-business-innovation-skills

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

Body governed by public law

I.3)Main activity

Education

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

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

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

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

To procure the services of organisations to deliver activity to support individuals who are NEET on behalf of The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills acting through the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) for delivery in the Leicester and Leicestershire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area.

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

Services
Service category No 24: Education and vocational education services
NUTS code

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)

Delivery of Education and Vocational training services activity funded through the European Social Fund (ESF) to support individuals who are NEET or in danger of becoming NEET identified in the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area mentioned at II.1.1) above.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

80000000

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:

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: yes
Description of these options: As indicated within the Contract for Services included within this Invitation to Tender. The Contract may be extended for up to a maximum of 12 months.

II.2.3)Information about renewals

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

Completion 31.3.2018

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:

All successful bidders will have to have had their Financial Health checked by the SFA following its procedures shown on its website.

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

At the time of contract award all organisations seeking to be considered for a contract must be a legal entity.

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

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Once you have been invited into the Tender you will receive an email alert advising you to sign on to the SFA e-Tendering portal with your normal user name and password. You access the ‘My ITTs’ page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only).
You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ITT Details’ box;
Responding to the tender:
— Click ‘My Response’ under ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason, if declining);
— You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification;
— Note the deadline for completion, then follow the on screen instructions to complete the ITT;
— There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available).
— You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page.
If you require any further assistance, please consult the online help or contact the eTendering help desk. But please note neither of these will be able to offer any advice on the service being procured. This is only available by using the online message board.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Candidates must have submitted a response to the Register Refresh which opened on 2.6.2015 indicating that they were interested in delivering to the LEP area covered and have been successful in that application.

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

Restricted

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

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

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

18.1.2016 – 17:00

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

The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: yes
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): ESIF 2014 to 2020 Programme.

VI.3)Additional information

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise.

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: You should note that there is no separate right of appeal against the award decisions made. However, if you consider that the SFA has not followed the published process or the decision made is unreasonable, you are able to make a complaint under the SFA’s complaints procedure which can be accessed at:

www.gov.uk/government/organisations/skills-funding-agency/about/complaints-procedure

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

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

4.12.2015