Home Help Service Stoke-on-Trent

Home Help Service Stoke-on-Trent – Homeworks Service

The City Council is inviting tenders from providers for a Homeworks Project that supports Tenants of the City Council to keep and retain their tenancies.

United Kingdom-Stoke-on-Trent: Home-help services

2013/S 232-402905

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1782231187

Internet address(es):

Electronic access to information: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/

Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/

Further information can be obtained from: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1782231187
E-mail: kirsty.fairbanks@stoke.gov.uk
Internet address: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: Bravo Solution
https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/
https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauth
UNITED KINGDOM
Internet address: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Bravo Solution
https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/
https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauth
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 8003684850
Internet address: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

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:

Homeworks Service.

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

Services
Service category No 27: Other services
NUTS code UKG23

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)

Home-help services. The City Council is inviting tenders from providers for a Homeworks Project that supports Tenants of the City Council to keep and retain their tenancies. It will be down to the bidding provider(s) to stipulate how they will deliver this service based on the purpose, principles and guidance laid out in this specification. This tender specification relates to Homeworks Project for Stoke on Trent City Council tenants.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

98513310

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

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no

II.1.8)Lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

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

Options: no

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: 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:

III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

See tender documents.

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

See tender documents.

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no

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: The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr

Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (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 three 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.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
Information available in the tender documents.

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

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

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:

AN2013/277*

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

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 17.1.2014 – 12:00
Payable documents: no

IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

20.1.2014 – 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

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

Duration in months: 12 (from the date stated for receipt of 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

Please note that this is a call for expressions of interest but for completion of itt. All documents are avalable from https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/, itt code 29702.

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.
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=81306248

GO Reference: GO-20131127-PRO-5294853

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1782231187
Internet address: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/

Body responsible for mediation procedures

Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1782231187

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

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

Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1782231187

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:27.11.2013