Payroll Services Tender – Reading
Thames water requires a UK HMRC compliant Payroll service to pay 6 500 salaried employees monthly.
United Kingdom-Reading: Payroll management services
2020/S 136-335915
Contract notice – utilities
Services
Directive 2014/25/EU
Section I: Contracting entity
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Procurement Support Centre — 3rd Floor East, C/O Mail Room, Rose Kiln Court
Town: Reading
NUTS code: UKJ11 Berkshire
Postal code: RG2 0BY
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk
I.3)Communication
I.6)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Payroll Services
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Payroll services.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Whole of the Thames Water region.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Thames Water requires a UK HMRC compliant Payroll service to pay 6 500 salaried employees monthly and provide key information to employees. Accurate record keeping of statutory records and transactions and reporting to Thames Water.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Thames Water envisages that the contract will be awarded for an initial term of 3 years with options to extend annually up to a maximum term of 8 years.
II.2.9)Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
Initial period would be for 3 years with options to extend annually to a maximum of 8 years:
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
As detailed in the PQQ.
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
III.1.4)Objective rules and criteria for participation
As detailed in section VI.3 and PQQ.
III.1.6)Deposits and guarantees required:
Bonds and/or parent company guarantees of performance and financial standing may be required.
III.1.7)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Specified in the invitation to negotiate.
III.1.8)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Consortia may be required to form a legal entity prior to award.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
Between 3-8 years.
VI.3)Additional information:
All suppliers who wish to respond to this notice must request a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) by using the link in Section I.3 of this notice, i.e. https://www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement
Note that your client may be Thames Water Utilities Ltd or another company within the Kemble Water group structure.
VI.4.1)Review body
Town: Reading
Country: United Kingdom
VI.4.3)Review procedure
Thames Water Utilities Ltd will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
VI.4.4)Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Town: Reading
Country: United Kingdom
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: