Highways Agency Specialist Professional and Technical Services Framework

Highways Agency Technical Services Framework

The new proposed framework will provide a route to market for Highways England to use for technical engineering advice, research, commercial services.

United Kingdom-Birmingham: Research and development services and related consultancy services

2015/S 160-293835

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

Highways England
The Cube, 199 Wharfside Street
For the attention of: Mobley Laura
B1 1RN Birmingham
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1216874107
E-mail: laura.mobley2@highwaysengland.co.uk

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

National or federal agency/office

I.3)Main activity

General public services

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:

Specialist Professional and Technical Services (SPaTS) Framework.

II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Services
Service category No 8: Research and development services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: National.

NUTS code UK

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

The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement

The notice involves a public contract

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

Framework agreement with several operators

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: 400 000 000 GBP

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

The new proposed framework will provide a route to market for Highways England to use for technical engineering advice, research, commercial services, dispute resolution advice, insurance advice, procurement advice and post-opening project evaluation.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

73000000

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: yes
Tenders may be submitted for all lots

II.1.9)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: no

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

This contract is subject to renewal: no

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

Duration in months: 48 (from the award of the contract)

Information about lots

Lot No: 1Lot title: Technical Consultancy, Engineering Advice, Research and Innovation services

1)Short description

The provision of technical consultancy, engineering advice, research and innovation services.

2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

73000000

3)Quantity or scope

4)Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion

5)Additional information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

Lot No: 2Lot title: Commercial Services — Commercial Managers, Quantity Surveyors and Project Estimators

1)Short description

The provision of commercial services — commercial managers, quantity surveyors and project estimators services.

2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

66000000

3)Quantity or scope

4)Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion

5)Additional information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

Lot No: 3Lot title: Commercial and Dispute Resolution

1)Short description

Provision of commercial and dispute resolution services.

2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

79110000

3)Quantity or scope

4)Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion

5)Additional information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

Lot No: 4Lot title: Insurance Advice

1)Short description

Provision of insurance advice services.

2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

66518100

3)Quantity or scope

4)Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion

5)Additional information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

Lot No: 5Lot title: Procurement Advice

1)Short description

Provision of procurement advice services.

2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

79418000

3)Quantity or scope

4)Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion

5)Additional information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

Lot No: 6Lot title: Post Implementation Evaluation

1)Short description

Provision of post implementation evaluation services or POPE.

2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

71000000

3)Quantity or scope

4)Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion

5)Additional information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

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

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Suppliers Instructions:
How to express interest in this tender:
1. Register your company on the e-Sourcing portal (this is only required once):

— Browse to the e-Sourcing Portal: https://highways.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register,

— Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘Continue’,
— Enter your correct business and user details,
— Note the username you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete,
— You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure).
2. Express an interest in the tender:
— Login to the portal with the username/password,
— Click the ‘PQQs/ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link. (These are pre-qualification questionnaires or invitations to tender open to any registered supplier),
— Click on the relevant PQQ/ITT to access the content,
— Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page,
— This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/My ITTs’ page (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only),
— You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ TT Details’ box.
3. Responding to the tender:
— Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason, if declining),
— You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification,
— Note the deadline for completion, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the PQQ/ITT,
— There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available),
— You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page.
If you require any further assistance, please consult the online help or contact the e-Tendering help desk.

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

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Open

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

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no

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:

IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior information notice

Notice number in the OJEU: 2015/S 45-077682 of 5.3.2015

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

24.9.2015 – 12:00

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

English.

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

This is a recurrent procurement: no

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 intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

14.8.2015