Supply and Installation of Power Supplies
1. Provide new electrical connections to agreed sites (Providing all excavation and reinstatement),
2. Provide necessary project management.
United Kingdom-Birmingham: Electrical installation work
2015/S 148-273812
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (Centro)
Centro House, 16 Summer Lane
For the attention of: Bloomer Stephen
B19 3SD Birmingham
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 3453036760
E-mail: procurementteam@centro.org.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.centro.org.uk
Address of the buyer profile: www.centro.org.uk
Electronic access to information: https://centro.bravosolution.co.uk
Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: https://centro.bravosolution.co.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
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 12: Architectural services; engineering services and integrated engineering services; urban planning and landscape engineering services; related scientific and technical consulting services; technical testing and analysis services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Centro supported area of the West Midlands, UK for any Centro procurements and the rest of the UK for other organisations having access to the framework.
NUTS code UK
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 4
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 4
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 000 000 GBP
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The outputs required are as follows:
1. Provide new electrical connections to agreed sites (Providing all excavation and reinstatement),
2. Provide necessary project management, supervision of works and discharge of principal contractors obligations,
3. Order and supply feeder pillar to include single circuit isolator ready to accommodate outgoing private network cabling,
4. Provide traffic/pedestrian management on site associated to servicing work.
The framework agreement will have either 1, 3 or 4 suppliers qualified to it and usually a mini-competition will be undertaken to award each piece of work. However, Centro reserves the right to make a direct award, if applicable. All qualified suppliers will be invited to take part in each mini-competition. The rates tendered in the framework agreement will be the maximum that can be charged throughout the life of the framework.
Also please note that the successful Contractor (s) shall be registered with the National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting (NICEIC) or equivalent.
Some call off undertaken from this framework agreement may be subject to EU Involve/ERDF or other associated or relevant funding.
Tenders are due back by the closing date of 12:00 on Tuesday, 8.9.2015 and the deadline for clarification questions via the messaging section of BravoSolution is 12:00 on Tuesday, 1.9.2015.
This framework agreement is available for any Local Authority, Integrated Transport Authority or public body in the UK to access and order from including specifically all 7 West Midlands Authorities (Birmingham City Council, Solihull, Coventry, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Sandwell).
As this is a framework agreement, it is not known at this stage what the aggregate value of spend will be over the duration of the framework in terms of Centro spend or spend incurred by the various organisations that can access and order directly from the framework. It is not the intention that Centro uses the framework to procure on behalf of other organisations rather that other public bodies have access to it and procure directly from the qualified suppliers. The estimated value quoted above is an indication only of what the anticipated Centro spend may be over the duration of the framework agreement based on previous annual spend. However, Centro cannot be held to this level of spend it is a guide and for tendering purposes only. Final aggregate level of spend from a Centro perspective could be in excess of this figure or below it.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
45310000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
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
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
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: Supplier’s instructions on expressing interest in this tender provision:
1.Register your company details on: https://centro.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link marked ‘to register’. Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’. Enter your correct business and user details. We highly recommend completing both the basic and extended profiles (the extended profile can be completed when you have logged into the portal). Please ensure you note the username and click ‘Save’ when complete. You will shortly receive an email with your unique password. (Please keep this secure).
2. Login to the portal with your unique username/password. Click the ‘PQQs/ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link. (These are pre qualification questionnaires or invitations to tender open to any registered supplier).
3. Expressing interest: Click on the relevant PQQ/ITT to access the content and click ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page. As a result you will now move the PQQ/ITT into your ‘My PQQs/My ITTs’ page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only. You can now access the information related to the tender provision; click on ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ITT Details’ box to access any/all attachments).
4. Responding to a tender: Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’. You can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’. (Please ensure you provide a reason if declining). You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification. Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT. You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page.
If you require any further assistance, please consult the online help or contact the e-Tendering help desk.
Please note that the PQQ reference for this framework agreement is pqq_60 and the ITT reference is itt_249.
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Please see evaluation questions in the technical envelope for further details.
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
Additional information about electronic auction: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
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
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): Some call off undertaken from this framework agreement by Centro or other public bodies in the UK accessing it may be subject to EU Involve/ERDF or other associated or relevant funding.
VI.3)Additional information
Suppliers instructions on expressing interest in this tender provision:
1.Register your company details on: https://centro.bravosolution.co.uk Click the link marked ‘to register’. Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’. Enter your correct business and user details. We highly recommend completing both the basic and extended profiles (the extended profile can be completed when you have logged into the portal). Please ensure you note the username and click ‘Save’ when complete. You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (Please keep this secure).
2. Login to the portal with your unique username/password. Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link. (These are pre qualification questionnaires or invitations to tender open to any registered supplier).
3. Expressing interest: Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content and click ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page. As a result you will now move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs’ page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only. You can now access the information related to the tender provision; click on ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’ box to access any/all attachments.
4. Responding to a tender: Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’. You can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’. (Please ensure you provide a reason if declining). You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification. Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT. You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page.
If you require any further assistance, please consult the online help or contact the e-Tendering help desk.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-tendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: