Grounds Management Services Tender

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

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

I.3)Main activity

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

II.1)Description

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

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)Lots

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

II.2.3)Information about renewals

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

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:

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

III.2)Conditions for participation

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

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

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

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

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

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

IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders

This is a recurrent procurement: no

The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

The selection of tenderers to be invited to tender will be by the mechanism detailed in the pre-qualification questionnaire that is available on request. The deadline at IV.3.4 above is for submission of a completed pre-qualification questionnaire and is not the deadline for the receipt of tenders. Those tenderers selected to be invited to tender, following evaluation of pre-qualification questionnaires, will be invited to tender by way of an invitation to tender document. Contract documents, including Specification and Bills of Quantities, will be provided to short-listed tenderers at the invitation to tender stage. Concerning IV.3.7, tenders must be maintained up to and including execution of contract documents following expiry of the standstill period. The Council’s intention is to apply a voluntary standstill period ending on 26.10.2012. Further details of the Council’s intended timetable for the procurement are included in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. The Council does not attend to depart from that timetable but it reserves the right to do so at any stage. This is a Part B service being procured by an unregulated restricted procedure. Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.