Accreditation services for SEAE artificer training courses

Provision of accreditation services for SEAE artificer training courses

The Authority seeks expressions of interest from potential bidders to deliver a 3-year requirement for ongoing Higher Education (HE) accreditation and re-accreditation by means of accreditation of prior learning (APL) and accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL) for students attending the School of Electronic and Aeronautical Engineering (SEAE) and the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering (DCAE).

UK-High Wycombe: vocational training services

2012/S 20-032656

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

Air Commercial Team, C&C
Acquisition & Commercial Team Nimrod Building No. 3 Site
Contact point(s): Comrcl1b2
For the attention of: Steve Robinson
HP14 4UE High Wycombe
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1494494386
E-mail: steve.robinson327@mod.uk
Fax: +44 1494494400

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

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions

I.3)Main activity

Defence

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:

Provision of accreditation services for SEAE artificer training courses.

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

Services
Service category No 24: Education and vocational education services
NUTS code UKJ11

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)

Vocational training services. The Authority seeks expressions of interest from potential bidders to deliver a 3-year requirement for ongoing Higher Education (HE) accreditation and re-accreditation by means of accreditation of prior learning (APL) and accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL) for students attending the School of Electronic and Aeronautical Engineering (SEAE) and the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering (DCAE), based at Hazebrouck Barracks, Arborfield undergoing the following three Artificer Training Streams:
Stream qualification school.
Artificer electronics BSc SEAE.
Artificer avionics BSc DCAE.
Artificer aircraft foundation degree DCAE.
The requirement is split into 2 parts as follows:
Part one. A single HE provider to reaccredit the existing three Artificer training streams to an appropriate standard, with named pathways for each of the three engineering disciplines. The resultant accreditation is desired to achieve a level similar to that currently awarded in science or engineering although, as a minimum requirement, a level 5 qualification to foundation degree must be realised. Ultimately, it must allow all artificers to be able to apply for professional registration as incorporated engineers with the Engineering Council. The full accreditation must be in place by no later than 1.6.2012 in order to provide the resultant single award to artificers on completion of their artificer course which is likely to be 18-21 months later.
Part two. As a result of the work carried out under part one, the HE provider is required to provide each individual student with the award for their qualification following the successful completion of their artificer course which is likely to last for 18-21 months from April 2012.
Tenderers will be required to hold relevant examination and qualification award status and be able to provide the basis for all students to continue their training to gain a full Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering.
The MOD has migrated to a purchase to payment (P2P) System operating over the Defence Electronic Commerce Service. All companies must confirm that they are able or willing to trade via P2P in their expressions of interest. Potential suppliers with experience of delivering the aforementioned services should submit an expression of interest in writing, including evidence of previous experience by 11.1.2012. The Authority may not consider late or incomplete expressions of interest. The Authority may undertake a pre-qualification exercise for this requirement following expressions of interest and only those companies that can demonstrate a sufficient level of competence against the Authority’s pre-qualification criteria will be invited to tender for the requirement. The award criteria for bids will be based upon the most economically advantageous tender evaluated by the Authority, including cost/price to the Authority and technical compliance.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

80530000

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no

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:

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

Starting 1.6.2012. Completion 31.3.2015

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:

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

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (a) Appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;
(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 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:
(a) A list of the works carried out over the past 5 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 issued 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;
(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.
A PQQ may be used for evaluation purposes to down-select to a tender panel. All information identified in Sections III.2.2 and III.2.3 will be required at the PQQ stage.

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: yes
Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision: Provider must be a Higher Education provider, able to accredit up to BSc level in a science or engineering discipline.

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 3: and maximum number 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: Fully compliant commercial and technical PQQ response.

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:

ACT/04033

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

5.3.2012 – 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 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

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender. Suppliers interested in working with the Ministry of Defence should register on the MOD Supplier Information Database (SID) Register, available at www.contracts.mod.uk. The MOD SID is a database of active and potential suppliers available to all MOD and UK Defence procurement personnel, and is the main supplier database of MOD Procurement organisations. Please note: the registration and publication of a company profile on the MOD SID does not mean or imply that the supplier has in any way been vetted or approved by the MOD. Suppliers wishing to compete for advertised MOD contracts must respond to any specific call for competition by submitting a separate expression of interest in accordance with the instructions of the purchasing organisation.

Advertising Regime OJEU:- this contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk.

The MoD will be operating an electronic invoice payment solution via the DECS (P2P) interface. GO Reference: GO-2012127-DCB-3680307.

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

Air Commercial Team, C&C
HP14 4UE High Wycombe
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: steve.robinson327@mod.uk
Telephone: +44 1494494386

Body responsible for mediation procedures

Air Commercial Team, C&C

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

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

Air Commercial Team, C&C

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

27.1.2012