Tender for Stationary and Office Sundries
The Agreement will also be open for use by all other local authorities and public sector bodies.
United Kingdom-West Malling: Office supplies
2016/S 056-093508
Contract notice
Supplies
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Kent County Council (through KCS)
1 Abbey Wood Road, Kings Hill
For the attention of: Mr Michael Smith
ME19 4YT West Malling
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1622236767
E-mail: psg@commercialservices.org.uk
Further information can be obtained from: Kent County Council (through KCS)
1 Abbey Wood Road, Kings hill
For the attention of: Mr Michael Smith
ME19 4YT West Malling
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1622236767
E-mail: psg@commercialservices.org.uk
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: Kent County Council (through KCS)
1 Abbey Wood Road, Kings hill
For the attention of: Mr Michael Smith
ME19 4YT West Malling
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1622236767
E-mail: psg@commercialservices.org.uk
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Kent County Council (through KCS)
1 Abbey Wood Road Kings hill
For the attention of: Mr Michael Smith
ME19 4YT West Malling
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1622236767
E-mail: psg@commercialservices.org.uk
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
Kent County Council
County Hall
ME14 1XQ Maidstone
UNITED KINGDOM
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
Purchase
NUTS code UKJ4
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: 0
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 0
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
KCS is a trading unit of Commercial Services and provides a purchasing, warehousing and distribution service to a wide ranging customer base within local government and associated public bodies in Kent, neighbouring counties and across the UK.
Kent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3 500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of circa.1 000 000 000 GBP on goods and services and a population of 1 500 000. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with 12 district councils and 289 parish/town councils.
In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives and Regulations, KCS wishes to create a Framework Agreement (the Agreement) for the provision of Stationery and Office sundries.
The procurement process adopted by the Contracting Authority is based upon the ‘Open’ Procedure, as detailed in the ‘Public Contract Regulations 2015′.
Other public bodies will have access to this Agreement but may only do so with the agreement of the Contracting Authority. Those organisations who may wish to access this Agreement will be members, affiliates and associates of the Police Service, the Fire Service, the NHS and NHS Trusts, third sector organisations, academic centres (including Academies), publicly funded organisations and publicly owned private companies, operating within the geographic boundaries of the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Northern Ireland.
The Agreement will also be open for use by all other local authorities and public sector bodies. Full details of the classification of potential Contracting Bodies and End User’s geographical areas and organisation classifications are detailed as follows:
Regions in England: Main Regions: East Midlands; West Midlands; East of England; South East; South West; North West; North East; Yorkshire and Humber; London or to individual administering Councils. See link:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm
Northern Ireland: Administered across 26 Districts of Northern Ireland. See link:
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/local-councils-in-northern-ireland
Scotland: Administered across 32 Council areas. See link:
http://www.cosla.gov.uk/scottish-local-government
Wales: Administered across 22 Council areas. See link:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/localgovernment/?skip=1&lang=en
Classification of End User Organisations
Local Authority Councils: County, Unitary, District, Borough, and Metropolitan Councils. (Parish and Community Councils are also permissible users). See link:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm
Members of Procurement Consortia may also have access. Consortia includes:
CBC — http://www3.hants.gov.uk/cbc
ESPO — https://www.espo.org
YPO — http://www.ypo.co.uk
Pro5 — http://www.pro5.org
Educational Establishments: Nursery School, Primary School, Middle or High School, Secondary School, Academy, Special School, Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), Further Education College, University. See links:
http://www.schoolswebdirectory.co.uk/index.php
http://www.ukschoolsdirectory.net/
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/aboutus/members/Pages/default.aspx
Police, Fire and Rescue and Maritime and Coastguard Agency Emergency Services:
See links:
http://www.police.uk/forces.htm
http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home.htm
NHS Bodies, the HSC (Northern Ireland) and Ambulance Services:
See links:
http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx
http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=trusts
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/organisations
http://www.scottishambulance.com/AboutUs/HowWeOrganised.aspx
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure
Central Government Departments and their Agencies:
See link:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/A-ZOfCentralGovernment/index.htm
Registered Charities:
See links:
http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/About_us/Regulation/Registering_charities_index.aspx
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/contacts/contacts-az.htm/housing-associations-contact
Registered Social Landlords: Government-funded, not-for-profit organisations that provide affordable housing. They include housing associations, trusts and cooperatives. See link:
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=7175736
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm
Northern Ireland: Administered across 11 Council areas. See link:
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/local-councils-in-northern-ireland
Scotland: Administered across 32 Council areas. See link:
http://www.cosla.gov.uk/scottish-local-government
Wales: Administered across 22 Council areas. See link:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/localgovernment/?skip=1&lang=en
Suppliers are advised that the Contracting Authority, its affiliates and/or authorised users, reserve the right to supply the tendered products, services, and commodities to companies that have a majority public sector ownership by any of the public sector bodies referred to above during the Agreement period as stated in this document, for the purpose of selling to other public, private and third sector organisations.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
30192000, 30192100, 30192130, 30192132, 30192700, 30193200, 30196200, 30197220
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
1. Adhesive Tapes,
2. Office Books and Pads,
3. Office Fasteners,
4. Office Sundries,
5. Scissors,
6. Pencils, Markers and Sketching.
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.1.4)Other particular conditions
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
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
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
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
This opportunity will be completed electronically via ProContract, a site run by Due North. Interested organisations should go towww.kentbusinessportal.org.uk to register and express interest. To express interest select ‘Current Opportunities’, from the ‘Organisation’ drop down box select ‘Commercial Services’, click search and select the appropriate opportunity. Once you have successfully expressed interest via the portal you will be sent an email directing you to the ProContract site from which you will be able to access and download the invitation to tender documentation and any other relevant information. This email should be retained, as it will contain your direct link to the ProContract portal, for information purposes only the link is www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/procontract/supplier.nsf Do not use this link now. Tenderers should also note that final submissions must be made via ProContract, no other submission route is permitted. Failure to follow this path will result in the tender submission being disregarded. All Documents Pertaining to this Opportunity will be Available for Download via the Procontract Portal From The Outset. Please ensure you are able to download all files immediately after accessing the ProContract portal.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: