Insurance Services Review 2013

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 of tenders

This is a recurrent procurement: yes
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 2016.

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

Plus Dane Housing Group manages around 18,000 properties and its insurance arrangements require extensive resources on the part of insurance service providers. Insurance of social landlords is a highly specialist field, and Plus Dane Housing Group will require respondents to this notice to be able to demonstrate clearly a strong track record of insurance provision in the RSL sector. This will include providing details of the number of housing associations (not local authorities, charities, care homes or other similar interests) which you service, the number of units you insure, your main insurance providers, details of your insurance policy wordings and evidence of detailed knowledge and experience on the part of all account servicing, claims handling and risk management staff. The proposal will be expected to demonstrate in practical terms the capability of tenderers to manage effectively the insurance arrangements for Plus Dane Housing Group, as well as providing competitive insurance terms from experienced RSL insurers.
Plus Dane Housing Group requires that all insurers proposed for its insurance arrangements shall be at least A rated by Standard & Poors or an equivalent rating agency.
The review is to be a two stage procedure. Responses to this notice in the form of a completed PQQ are required by 17.6.2013. Candidates to enter the negotiated stage of the process will be selected from those responses. The final costed tenders from those candidates selected as tenderers must be submitted by 1600 on 15.8.2013.