School Improvement Services Buckinghamshire

The provider will implement school improvement strategies that will build leadership and teaching capacity in order to sustain improvements in our academies.

United Kingdom-Olney: Education and training services

2015/S 062-109043

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

EMLC Academy Trust
Bridge House, Bridge Street
For the attention of: Hena Mahmod
MK46 4AB Olney
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1234880154
E-mail: ruhena.mahmood@emlcacademytrust.co.uk

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.emlcacademytrust.co.uk

Address of the buyer profile: www.emlcacademytrust.co.uk

Electronic access to information: www.emlcacademytrust.co.uk

Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: www.mytenders.org

Further information can be obtained from: EMLC Academy Trust
Bridge House, Bridge Street
For the attention of: Hena Mahmod
MK46 4AB Olney
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1234880154
E-mail: ruhena.mahmood@emlcacademytrust.co.uk
Internet address: www.emlcacademytrust.co.uk

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: EMLC Academy Trust
Bridge House, Bridge Street
For the attention of: Hena Mahmod
MK46 4AB Olney
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1234880154
E-mail: ruhena.mahmood@emlcacademytrust.co.uk
Internet address: www.emlcacademytrust.co.uk

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: EMLC Academy Trust
Bridge House, Bridge Street
For the attention of: Hena Mahmod
MK46 4AB Olney
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1234880154
E-mail: ruhena.mahmood@emlcacademytrust.co.uk
Internet address: www.emlcacademytrust.co.uk

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

Other: Multi Academy Trust

I.3)Main activity

Education

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:

School Improvement Services for the expanding EMLC Academy Trust.

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
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: UK.

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)

EMLC Academy Trust maintains and manages five primary academies in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes, with the aspiration to eventually grow to sponsor 13-17 academies, all within 1 hour from their base in Olney, Buckinghamshire. The Trust is considering expanding to support secondary academies, along with an all-through Free School. The two academies that joined the Trust in 2012 have made rapid improvements from performing well below the Government’s Floor Standard to being high-performing academies with a Good OfSTED rating. The other three academies are improving rapidly. As an academy sponsor, support is provided for back office functions that include Finance, HR, Legal, Communications, Capital and policies.
As the current School Improvement contract ends July 2015, the Trust is tendering for a provider who can support the academies to achieve the Trust’s ambitions for their academies to be centres of excellence with outstanding teaching and leadership. The provider will implement school improvement strategies that will build leadership and teaching capacity in order to sustain improvements in our academies.

Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the myTenders Web Site athttp://www.myTenders.org/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=151289

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

80000000, 80100000, 80200000

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

Variants will be accepted: no

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

3 year contract (with an option for a 2 year extension).
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 600 000 and 800 000 GBP

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: yes
Description of these options: 3 year contract with possibility of extension up to 2 years.

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: 36 (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:

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: (1) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they are not bankrupt or the subject of an administration order, are not being wound-up, have not granted a trust deed, are not the subject of a petition presented for sequestration of their estate, have not had a receiver, manager or administrator appointed and are not otherwise apparently insolvent.
(2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process.
(3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession.
(4) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of their business or profession.
(5) All candidates must comply with the requirements of the State in which they are established, regarding registration on the professional or trade register.
(6) Any candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to continue with this procurement process.
(7) All candidates will have to demonstrate that they are licensed, or a member of the relevant organisation, in the State where they are established, when the law of that State prohibits the provision of the services, described in this notice, by a person who is not so licensed or who is not a member of the relevant organisation.
(8) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the candidate is established.
(9) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the economic operator is established.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (1) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.
(2) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice.
(3) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
(1) Details of the educational and professional qualifications of their managerial staff; and those of the person(s) who would be responsible for providing the services or carrying out the work or works under the contract.
(2) A list of works carried out over the past 5 years, detailing the value of the consideration received; when and where the work or works were carried out; and whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade or profession and properly completed.

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

Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: yes

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

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:

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

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

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

29.4.2015 – 12:00

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

until: 30.9.2015

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 29.4.2015 – 12:00

Place:

EMLC Academy Trust, Bridge House, Bridge Street, Olney, Bucks, MK46 4AB.

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

VI.2)Information about European Union funds

VI.3)Additional information

(MT Ref:151289).

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

EMLC Academy Trust
Bridge Street
MK46 4AB Olney
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: dgriffiths@emlcacademytrust.co.uk
Internet address: www.emlcacademytrust.co.uk

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

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

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

25.3.2015