Environmental Improvement Works Nottingham
Provision of external environment improvement works.
UK-Nottingham: environmental improvement works
2012/S 83-136460
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
Efficiency East Midlands Ltd
Icon Business Centre, Lake View Drive
For the attention of: Eunice Walker
NG15 0DT Nottingham
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1158762090
E-mail: procurement@efficiency-em.co.uk
Fax: +44 1158762092
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)
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
See VI.3
Nottingham
UNITED KINGDOM
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 27: Other services
NUTS code UKF
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 9
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 1 600 000 and 100 000 000 GBP
The framework agreement will comprise of the provision of external environment improvement works as and when required, comprising of:
— The supply and fit and/or supply only of various types of metal fencing,
— The supply and fit and/or supply only of timber fencing, and
— Groundworks.
The organisations listed in Section VI.3 as Authorised users of the framework agreement to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice have requirements predominately within the East Midlands as that region is described at www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Local councils/index.htm. However, organisations which are Authorised users in other parts of the United Kingdom regions may also access and use the framework agreement to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice as described in VI.3.
Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta. You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage.
Suppliers must log in, go to your Response Manager and add the following Access Code: J42AE4DK45. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you here.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 4.6.2012 (13:00). Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
If you experience any technical difficulties please contact the Delta eSourcing eSourcing Helpdesk on call +44 8452707050 or e-mail helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.
45262640, 44113620, 44113130, 44114200, 45233251, 34928200, 34928220, 34928310
Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 1 600 000 and 100 000 000 GBP
Information about lots
Lot No: 1 Lot title: Provision of external environmental improvement works, metal and timber fencing
The framework agreement will comprise of the provision of external environment improvement works as and when required, comprising of:
— The supply and fit and/or supply only of various types of metal fencing,
— The supply and fit and/or supply only of timber fencing.
The organisations listed in Section VI.3 as Authorised users of the framework agreement to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice have requirements predominately within the East Midlands as that region is described at www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Local councils/index.htm. However, organisations which are Authorised users in other parts of the United Kingdom regions may also access and use the framework agreement to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice as described in VI.3.
Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta. You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage.
Suppliers must log in, go to your Response Manager and add the following Access Code: J42AE4DK45. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you here.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 4.6.2012 (13:00). Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
If you experience any technical difficulties please contact the Delta eSourcing eSourcing Helpdesk on call +44 8452707050 or e-mail helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.
45262640, 34928200, 34928220, 34928310
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 1 000 000 and 100 000 000 GBP
The framework agreement will comprise of the provision of external environment improvement works as and when required, comprising of:
— groundworks.
The organisations listed in Section VI.3 as Authorised users of the framework agreement to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice have requirements predominately within the East Midlands as that region is described at www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Local councils/index.htm. However, organisations which are Authorised users in other parts of the United Kingdom regions may also access and use the framework agreement to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice as described in VI.3.
Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta. You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage.
Suppliers must log in, go to your Response Manager and add the following Access Code: J42AE4DK45. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you here.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 4.6.2012 (13:00). Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
If you experience any technical difficulties please contact the Delta eSourcing eSourcing Helpdesk on call +44 8452707050 or e-mail helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.
45262640, 44113620, 44113130, 44114200, 45233251
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 550 000 and 100 000 000 GBP
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Description of particular conditions: Applicants who satisfy any of the criteria for rejection as set out in Regulation 23(1), Public Contracts regulations 2006 shall be treated as ineligible. Applicants may be requested to provide such evidence as is reasonably necessary to allow Efficiency East Midlands members to establish that the afore mentioned criteria do not apply to them. Contract performance conditions may relate in particular to secondary considerations in accordance with Regulation 39 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr.
Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the 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.
(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 3 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.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Applicants will be required to complete the tender documentation consistent with Directive 2004/18/EC. A short list will be drawn from the suitable applications from which the successful service provider or providers will be selected. Any potential service provider should note that no cost reimbursement will be considered for work carried out prior to appointment. The tender documents are available at I.1 and must be uploaded to the portal stipulated in the tender documents. Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required where Suppliers will be expected to meet Efficiency East Midlands criteria for existing turnover in relation to their major customer and legal compliance with metal and timber fencing and groundworks.
(b) A list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past 3 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;
(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;
(j) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.
Applicants will be required to complete tender documents consistent with Directive 2004/18/EC. A short list will be drawn from the suitable applications and asked to provide a price based tender from which the successful service provider will be selected. Any potential service provider should note that no cost reimbursement will be considered for work carried out prior to appointment. The documents are available at I.1 and must be returned as stipulated in the tender documents.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Suppliers will be expected to have sufficient staffing levels to provide the service and satisfy the performance targets specified by Efficiency East Midlands and detailed within the tender documentation. Suppliers will also be required to comply with any statutory registration and reporting requirements.
Section IV: Procedure
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated below
Price. Weighting 50
Quality. Weighting 40
Health and safety. Weighting 10
Payable documents: no
Place:
Icon Business Centre, Lake View Drive, Sherwood Park, Nottingham NG15 0DT, UNITED KINGDOM.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes
Additional information about authorised persons and opening procedure: Authorised personnel.
Section VI: Complementary information
1. Any current EEM member – an organisation which is a member of EEM at the date of this Contract Notice and being one of the organisations listed above in this Section VI.3.
2. Any future member of EEM – a Local Authority, ALMO or registered provider housing landlord organisation (of the type described in the third paragraph of this Section VI.3) entitled to join and which has applied to and has joined EEM as a member in accordance with the constitutional documents of EEM and in respect of which organisation notice has been given by EEM to the economic operators who are a party to the framework agreement being advertised by this Contract Notice that such organisation is an Authorised user of this framework agreement as a member of EEM. Future EEM Members may include consortia made up entirely of organisations which would themselves individually be a Future EEM member and may include any special purpose vehicle (of whatever nature) wholly owned and controlled by the consortia members and would include in those circumstances the consortia members of the special purpose vehicle that owns and controls it.
3. An EEM participant – an organisation which is neither a current EEM member (as defined at 1 above) nor a future member of EEM (as defined at 2 above) will be entitled to use the framework agreement advertised by this Contract Notice if it is based within the East Midlands, owns and/or maintains/manages housing stock or other property of the type described in the third paragraph of this Section VI.3 in one or more geographical area in which it operates and is a Local Authority i.e. a County, Metropolitan (City), District and Borough Council or a Unitary Authority in England or Wales or is an Arms Length Management Organisation (or any statutory replacement or successor organisation) managed by such local authority under a management agreement under Section 27 of the Housing Act 1985 (or subsequent legislation) or is a registered provider under the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (or subsequent legislation) and is itself a Contracting Authority for the purpose of the Public Contract Regulations 2006 and in respect of which organisation notice has been given by EEM to the economic operators that are a party to the framework agreement being advertised by this Contract Notice that such organisation is an Authorised user of this framework agreement.
EEM participants will include consortia made up entirely of organisations which would themselves individually be an EEM participant and may include any special purpose vehicle (of whatever nature) wholly owned and controlled by the consortia members and would include in those circumstances the consortia members of the special purpose vehicle that owns and controls it.
For the purpose of this Notice, the geographical area local authorities are identifiable by reference to the Direct Gov web site at www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm and a full list of all current registered providers can be found at www.tenantservicesauthority.org/server/show/nav.490. Reference to legislation in this Contract Notice includes successor and/or replacement legislation.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender. GO Reference: GO-2012425-PRO-3880013.
Royal Courts of Justice
The Strand
WC2A 2LL London
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2079476000
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Royal Courts of Justice
The Strand
WC2A 2LL London
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2079476000
Efficiency East Midlands Limited
Icon Business Centre, Lake View Drive
NG15 0DT Nottingham
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: pete.smith@efficiency-em.co.uk
Telephone: +44 1623726250