Print Services for Wiltshire Council
Print Services (Payroll, Elections, Pensions, Revenue and Benefits).
UK-Trowbridge: Printed matter and related products
2013/S 099-169804
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
Wiltshire Council
Corporate Procurement Unit, SRM Team, County Hall, Bythesea Road
For the attention of: Siham Tahari
BA14 8JN Trowbridge
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1225718498
E-mail: siham.tahari@wiltshire.gov.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk
Address of the buyer profile: www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 15: Publishing and printing services on a fee or contract basis
NUTS code UKK
The contract will cover the printing of payroll information, pension statements, election documentation, and revenue and benefit documents. The named printing services will be divided into four lots and some aspects of the service across the four lots will involve the postal delivery.
The successful provider(s) will be expected to work to tight timescales, have the flexibility to carry out monthly, quarterly and annual printing requirements and ad hoc printing, on occasion at short notice. Using Pensions as an example the provider will be required to print 30,000 Pension newsletters annually, 40,000 Pensions Annual Benefit Statements and 50 Pensions Annual Reports. The Pensions requirement may also correspond with an Elections requirement, any provider wishing to bid for multiple lots will be required to be able to action and deliver on conflicting printing requirements.
Local Authorities are increasing working collaboratively with other Government and Non-Government agancies, therefore this contract may be accessed by other agencies when the Council is working in an collaborative agreement.
Access to the PQQ is automatically available to contractors who register an interest on the ProContract South West Portal.
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Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
(a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;
(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order compulsory winding up the administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations;
(c) has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct;
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contract authorities can demonstrate;
(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information;
(h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organization, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA;
(i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26 May 1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;
(j)has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities;
(k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Contained within the Pre-qualification Questionnaire.
(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 of these turnovers is available.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Contained within the Pre-qualification Questionnaire.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Contained within the Pre-qualification Questionnaire.
(a) a list of the works carried out over the past five years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct;
(b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: – where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issues or countersigned by the competent authority, – where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser’s certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;
(c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator’s undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work;
(d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking’s study and research facilities;
(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 capabilities 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;
(f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking’s managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;
(g) for public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in appropriate cases, and indication of the environmental management measures that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the contract;
(h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years;
(i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contracts;
(j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract;
(k) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so request; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognized competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Contained within the Pre-qualification Questionnaire.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Contained within the Pre-qualification Questionnaire.
Section IV: Procedure
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:21.5.2013