ESPO Nationwide Courier Services
A contract for the provision of courier services for use by ESPO’s warehouse.
United Kingdom-Leicester: Courier services
2016/S 041-067803
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
ESPO
Barnsdale Way, Grove Park, Enderby
For the attention of: Ms Laura Maitland
LE19 1ES Leicester
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1162657947
E-mail: tenders@espo.org
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.espo.org/
Electronic access to information: http://www.eastmidstenders.org/
Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: http://www.eastmidstenders.org/
Further information can be obtained from: ESPO
Please see section II.1.5)
LE19 1ES Leicester
UNITED KINGDOM
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: ESPO
Please see section II.1.5)
LE19 1ES Leicester
UNITED KINGDOM
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: ESPO
Please see section II.1.5)
LE19 1ES Leicester
UNITED KINGDOM
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 2: Land transport services [2], including armoured car services, and courier services, except transport of mail
NUTS code UK
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The contracts is divided into the following lots:
Lot 1- Single and Multiple Parcel Delivery Service (1kg+)
within Leicestershire;
Lot 2 — Single and Multiple Parcel Delivery Service (1kg+)
within Norfolk and Suffolk;
Lot 3 — Single and Multiple Parcel Delivery Service (1kg+)
on a national basis excluding Leicestershire, Norfolk and Suffolk;
Lot 4 — Single and Multiple Small Parcel Delivery Service (<1kg)
on a national basis;
Lot 5 — Palletised Consignment Delivery Service within Leicestershire;
Lot 6 — Palletised Consignment Delivery Service on a national basis (excluding Leicestershire);
Lot 7 — Catalogue Delivery on a national basis.
This is a notice for social services in accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council Article 74. Type of services — Land transport services, including armoured car services, and courier services, except transport of mail.
In order to express an interest in tendering for this opportunity and obtaining tender documents and/or requesting any further information, please see details below and please ensure you refer to instructions and guidance available: (a) Go to www.eastmidstenders.org (b) (If you are not already registered) Register your company by selecting the ‘Register’ box on the top of the home page, (c) Once registered visit the home page select ‘View Opportunities’ then ‘Search Latest Opportunities’, from the ‘Organisation’ drop down box select ‘ESPO’, click search (options) and select the appropriate opportunity ‘268_16 Courier Services’, (d) Express an interest by selecting the ‘Register Interest’ box at the bottom of the screen. You should receive a notification email confirming your expression of interest, (e) Once fully registered, you should download the tender from the website.
Tenderers should also note that final submissions must be made only via ProContract, no other submission route is permitted. Failure to follow this path will result in the tender submission being disregarded.
All documents pertaining to this opportunity will be available for download via the ProContract portal from the outset. Please ensure you are able to download all files after accessing the ProContract portal.
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II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
64120000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Estimated value excluding VAT: 6 000 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
Description of these options: The contract has the option to extend for up to a further 36 months. The total estimated values stated in Section II.2) include the option period.
Provisional timetable for recourse to these options:
in days: 0 (from the award of the contract)
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Information about lots
Lot No: 1 Lot title: 268_16 Courier Services
1)Short description
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
64120000
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
Description of particular conditions: 1. The Supplier agrees that there shall be no discrimination by it against any person with respect to opportunity for employment or conditions of employment, because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. The Supplier shall in all matters arising in the performance of the Agreement comply with the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998 and all other discrimination legislation. 2. This contract will contain a contract monitoring clause which will require suppliers to ensure that their organisation operates within the rating of 12 or more, as shall be determined by use of the credit rating agency, Creditsafe Business Solutions Limited.
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
As detailed in the Invitation to Tender.
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
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
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
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.4.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: