Municipal Waste Rail Transfer and Treatment

LWL is now seeking expressions of interest from organisations willing and able to undertake the following services: Rail haulage of the wastes from Hendon RTS to a suitably licensed facility, Treatment/disposal of the wastes.

United Kingdom-London: Refuse and waste related services

2014/S 087-152642

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

LondonWaste Limited
EcoPark, Advent Way, Edmonton
Contact point(s): Commercial Department
For the attention of: Mr Jim Kendall
N18 3AG London
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2088845530
E-mail: jim.kendall@londonwaste.co.uk

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.londonwaste.co.uk

Electronic access to information: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Refuse-and-waste-related-services./6Y9V7D6K88

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

Body governed by public law

I.3)Main activity

Environment

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:

Municipal Waste Rail Transfer and Treatment.

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

Services
Service category No 16: Sewage and refuse disposal services; sanitation and similar services

NUTS code UKI

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)

Refuse and waste related services. Refuse transport services. LondonWaste Limited (LWL) manages the treatment and disposal of municipal waste for the North London Waste Authority (NLWA). Since December 2009, the company has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of NLWA.
Residual waste collected by NLWA boroughs is delivered to one of three locations
— The EcoPark in LB Enfield,
— The Hornsey St Waste & Recycling Centre in LB Islington,
— The Hendon Rail Transfer Station (RTS) in LB Barnet.
The majority of the waste deposited at the Hendon RTS is collected by the boroughs of Barnet and Camden and is comprised of mixed municipal waste categorised under EWC code 20 03 01. LWL is now seeking expressions of interest from organisations willing and able to undertake the following services:
— Rail haulage of the wastes from Hendon RTS to a suitably licensed facility,
— Treatment/disposal of the wastes.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

90500000, 90512000

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: 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:

LWL will provide further information within the Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents, however the quantity of waste requiring transfer and treatment is expected to range between 60 000 to 100 000 tonnes each year; guaranteed minimums and maximums may apply.

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: yes
Description of these options: It is anticipated that the contract will commence on 16.12.2014 and will continue until 15.12.2017, with the option (at LWL’s sole discretion) of extending beyond this date on up to three occasions and for a maximum period not exceeding 3 years.

II.2.3)Information about renewals

This contract is subject to renewal: yes
Number of possible renewals: Range: between 1 and 3
In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated timeframe for subsequent contracts:
in months: 12 (from the award of the contract)

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

Starting 16.12.2014. Completion 15.12.2017

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

LondonWaste reserves the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds or other forms of appropriate security.

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

Please refer to Contract documentation.

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

Please refer to Contract documentation.

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: yes
Description of particular conditions: Please refer to the conditions of contract and other documents to be issued with the Invitation To Tender.

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: (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

III.2.3)Technical capacity

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

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

Restricted

IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Envisaged minimum number 5

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:

Hendon Transfer 2014

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

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

Payable documents: no

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

6.6.2014 – 17:00

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

Prospective Tenderers are advised that LondonWaste Ltd is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. If a Prospective Tenderer considers that any of the information supplied as part of this procurement exercise should not be disclosed because of its commercial sensitivity, confidentiality or otherwise, it must, when providing this information, clearly identify the specific information it does not wish to be disclosed and clearly specify the reasons for its sensitivity.
LondonWaste shall take such statements into consideration in the event that it receives a request pursuant to FOIA or EIR which relates to the information provided by a Supplier. However, if the information is requested LondonWaste may be obliged to under FOIA and/or EIR to disclose such information, irrespective of the supplier’s wishes. Please note that it is not sufficient to include a statement of confidentiality encompassing all the information provided in the response.
LondonWaste is not bound to accept the lowest or any bid and nothing in the PQQ or ITT shall oblige LWL to award a Contract and the company shall be able at its sole discretion to withdraw from negotiations at any stage.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Refuse-and-waste-related-services./6Y9V7D6K88

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/6Y9V7D6K88

GO Reference: GO-201452-PRO-5644115

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

LondonWaste Ltd
Advent Way
N18 3AG London
UNITED KINGDOM

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: LondonWaste will act in accordance with Regulations 32 and 32A, and Part 9 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended). Part 9 of these Regulations provides for appeals to be made to the High Court subject to the tight time limitations and other required procedural steps. The appeal rules are complex and a dissatisfied candidate/ tenderer is advised to take prompt legal advice.

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

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

2.5.2014