Printing and Typesetting Services

Printing, Distributing and Specialist Typesetting Services.

UK-Swindon: Printing and related services

2013/S 116-198149

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

UK Shared Business Services Ltd
North Star House, North Star Avenue
For the attention of: Anna Booth
SN2 1FF Swindon
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1793867316
E-mail: anna.booth@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.ssc.rcuk.ac.uk

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

Other: Business Innovation

I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes

Department for Business Innovation & Skills
1 Victoria Street
SW1H 0ET London
UNITED KINGDOM

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

Printing, Distributing and Specialist Typesetting Services.

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

Services
Service category No 15: Publishing and printing services on a fee or contract basis
NUTS code UK

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)

The Department for Business Innovation & Skills is taking forward consideration of the options for a sale of shares in Royal Mail as enabled by the Postal Services Act 2011 and to fulfill the Coalition Government’s commitment to give Royal Mail future access to private sector capital.
No decisions have been taken on the timing or type of transaction that will be undertaken.
BIS Ministers have said that they are attracted to selling shares through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). This would require the printing and distribution of full and summary prospectuses as well as a range of ancillary documents. Such an offering may also include a retail offer to members of the public. BIS, therefore, wishes to procure one supplier who can provide specialist typesetting services of the prospectuses and the printing and distribution services required for such an offer. The exact nature of the offer, if it goes ahead, will not be known until Ministers have reached final decisions on the sale – there is no specific timeline for these decisions. BIS will only consider appointing one firm for the complete work. Submissions for part of the work will not be accepted.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

79800000

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

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

Scope of the work as per short description of the contract given elsewhere. See Invitation to Bid document for more details.

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: 10 (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:

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

Lead Contractor with joint and several liability.

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: Please See Tender Documentation.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please See Tender Documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Please See Tender Documentation.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
Please See Tender Documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Please See Tender Documentation.

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

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no

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:

PS130119BIS

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: 29.7.2013 – 09:00
Payable documents: no

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

29.7.2013 – 14:00

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

in days: 90 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 29.7.2013 – 14:30
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes
Additional information about authorised persons and opening procedure: UK SBS Procurement staff only.

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

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

Michael Horgan
UK Shared Business Services Ltd, North Star House
SN2 1FF Swindon
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: michael.horgan@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1793867786

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The Contracting Authority will incorporate a 10 calendar day stand still period at the point information on the Award of the Contract is communicated to tenderers. The 10 day period will be extended to 15 days from the ‘relevant sending date’ when the ‘Alcatel’ letter is not sent electronically. This period allows unsuccessful tenders to seek further debriefing from the Contracting Authority before the contract is entered into. Such additional information should be requested from the address in Section 1. The Public Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2009 also clarify that a letter received from an unsuccessful bidder is not in itself enough to extend the legal standstill period and prevent the authority signing the contract. To do so, a bidder must actually go to court, issue proceedings, and serve them. If an appeal regarding the award of the contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) as amended by the Public Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2009, provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at a risk of harm by breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England Wales and Northern Ireland). The new limitation period will apply specifically where a bidder brings an ‘ineffectiveness claim’. There is a six-month long-stop period that will be shortened to 30 days where the authority has published an award notice, or where they have notified the losing bidders of their exclusion, and given proper reasons.

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

UK Shared Business Services Ltd, North Star House
SN2 1FF Swindon
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: michael.horgan@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1793867786

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:13.6.2013