Grounds Maintenance Services Barnsley Hospital
Contract for grounds and gardens maintenance services at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
UK-Barnsley: grounds maintenance services
2012/S 68-112300
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Gawber Road
Contact point(s): Supplies Department
For the attention of: Lee Davies
S75 2EP Barnsley
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1226432436
E-mail: leedavies1@nhs.net
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
Health
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:
Contract for grounds and gardens maintenance services at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 14: Building-cleaning services and property management services
NUTS code UKE31
Service category No 14: Building-cleaning services and property management services
NUTS code UKE31
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)
Grounds maintenance services. The Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has a contract requirement for grounds and gardens maintenance services. The contract shall also embrace the provision of snow clearing and gritting services during the winter. Options for occasional removal of trees will also be sought. Provision of redesigns to areas including some low maintenance options.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
77314000
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
Variants will be accepted: yes
II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
The grounds and gardens maintenance services shall include the following services:
— General gardening,
— Grass cutting / hedge trimming,
— Planting and maintenance of borders,
— Litter patrol / emptying of external waste bins,
— Weed control – bedded areas / hard surface spraying,
— Pruning of shrubs,
— Snow clearing,
— Winter gritting,
— Sweeping,
— Ad-hoc tree pruning, felling and stump removal,
— Redesigning of areas including some low maintenance options.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 120 000 and 200 000 GBP
— General gardening,
— Grass cutting / hedge trimming,
— Planting and maintenance of borders,
— Litter patrol / emptying of external waste bins,
— Weed control – bedded areas / hard surface spraying,
— Pruning of shrubs,
— Snow clearing,
— Winter gritting,
— Sweeping,
— Ad-hoc tree pruning, felling and stump removal,
— Redesigning of areas including some low maintenance options.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 120 000 and 200 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
Options: yes
Description of these options: The contract shall be awarded for an initial term of 3 years, commencing on the 1.11.2012 with an option to extend thereafter by a further period up to a maximum of 2 years.
Description of these options: The contract shall be awarded for an initial term of 3 years, commencing on the 1.11.2012 with an option to extend thereafter by a further period up to a maximum of 2 years.
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Duration in months: 60 (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:
Requirements for performance guarantees, performance bonds, liquidated damages will be detailed within the tender documents.
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:
Joint and several liability.
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: Applicants wishing to obtain the Trusts tender documents will be required to complete a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire with must be returned no later than 1.6.2012.
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (a) Appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;
(b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
(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.
Applicants wishing to obtain the Trusts Tender Documents will be required to complete a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire with must be returned no later than 01 June 2012.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As detailed in the Trusts pre-qualification questionnaire.
(b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
(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.
Applicants wishing to obtain the Trusts Tender Documents will be required to complete a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire with must be returned no later than 01 June 2012.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As detailed in the Trusts pre-qualification questionnaire.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
(a) A list of the works carried out over the past 5 years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct;
(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;
(d) A description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking’s study and research facilities;
(e) Where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body’s agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;
(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;
(h) A statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last 3 years;
(i) A statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract
(j) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.
Applicants wishing to obtain the Trusts tender documents will be required to complete a pre-qualification questionnaire with must be returned no later than 1.6.2012.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As detailed in the Trusts pre-qualification questionnaire.
(a) A list of the works carried out over the past 5 years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct;
(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;
(d) A description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking’s study and research facilities;
(e) Where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body’s agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;
(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;
(h) A statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last 3 years;
(i) A statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract
(j) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.
Applicants wishing to obtain the Trusts tender documents will be required to complete a pre-qualification questionnaire with must be returned no later than 1.6.2012.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As detailed in the Trusts pre-qualification questionnaire.
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
Restricted
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
Envisaged minimum number 5: and maximum number 7
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As detailed in the Trusts pre-qualification questionnaire.
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As detailed in the Trusts pre-qualification questionnaire.
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:
BHNFT/T1112
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
no
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
14.5.2012 – 12:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
6.6.2012
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 tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: yes
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: April 2017.
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: April 2017.
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 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.
The contracting authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any offer and reserves the right to award the contract in whole or in part. The contracting authority is not responsible for any costs incurred by any tenderer in relation to its participation in this process. GO Reference: GO-201244-PRO-3832893.
The contracting authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any offer and reserves the right to award the contract in whole or in part. The contracting authority is not responsible for any costs incurred by any tenderer in relation to its participation in this process. GO Reference: GO-201244-PRO-3832893.
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: The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the decision to award the contract is communicated to tenderers in accordance with Regulation 32A of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006. Any tenderer wishing to appeal the decision to award the contract, or after award of the contract appeal the award of contract, may do so to the extent and as permitted in Part 9 of the Public Contract Regulations 2006.
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:4.4.2012