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
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)
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 14: Building-cleaning services and property management services
NUTS code UKE31
77314000
— 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
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.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
(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.
(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.
Section IV: Procedure
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As detailed in the Trusts pre-qualification questionnaire.
Section VI: Complementary information
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: April 2017.
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.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:4.4.2012