Railway Engineering Services – Contingent Labour Resource

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

I.2)Main activity

I.3)Contract award on behalf of other contracting entities

II.1)Description

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

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

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

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

II.1.8)Information about lots

II.1.9)Information about variants

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

II.2.2)Information about options

II.2.3)Information about renewals

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

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

III.2.3)Technical capacity

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting entity:

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

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

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

IV.3.5)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up

IV.3.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

IV.3.7)Conditions for opening of tenders

This is a recurrent procurement: yes
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 5 years.

The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

Participants are advised that they must submit their request to receive the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) to the email: contingentlabourresourcing@networkrail.co.uk

The email header should be: PQQ Request (YOUR COMPANY NAME)
A copy of the PQQ will then be issued to the email address the request is received from within a maximum of 2 business days.
The closing date for returning the PQQ is 21.2.2014 at 18.00.
A Supplier briefing session will be held on 7.2.2014, in Euston Station, London, from 09.30-12.30 if Suppliers wish to attend. This session will detail the high-level strategey, include a Safety update and discuss the PQQ.
This competition is being run by Network Rail to procure bidders into a framework agreement. The Framework will be available to Network Rail and may also be available to Transport for London and London Underground Limited.
Substantial further information is provided in the Pre-Qualification Instructions and PQQ Response Document.
Bidders are entirely responsible for their own costs in relation to responding to this PQQ.
National Rail in under no obligation to make a contract award.
There is no intention for this tender process to create legal relations.
The range in value specified in II.1.4) of GBP 350 000 000 – GBP 1 650 000 000 breaks down over a 6 year period (assuming contract renewal) as follows:
Network Rail – up to GBP 1,5 billion; and TfL – up to GBP 150 million

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: Participants are advised in the first instance to contact the Nominated Contact if there are any queries regarding the tender process.
Written feedback will be provided to particpants that are unsuccessful after each stage of the tender process. Participants are advised to raise any such quieries when receiving such feedback immediately.
Network Rail will incorporate a 10 day standstill period following announcement of contract award. This period will allow unsuccessful participants that have not progressed to the final stages of the tender process to seek further information and where appropriate receive a debriefing from Network Rail.
The UK permits unlawful procurements to be legally challenged. A prospective challenger would would need to seek independent legal advice in this respect.