Tender for SMS Services
The supply of an SMS service for the Janet Community. This will be a Janet branded service but fully managed by the supplier. The supplier will be responsible for providing, operating and maintaining the hardware and software upon which the service operates.
United Kingdom-Didcot: Short Message Service (SMS) services
2013/S 214-372543
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
Jisc Collections and Janet Limited
Lumen House, Library Avenue
Contact point(s): Procurement Co-ordinator
OX11 0SG Didcot
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1235822341
E-mail: procurement@ja.net
Fax: +44 1235822286
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.ja.net
Electronic access to information: https://tenders.ja.net
Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: https://tenders.ja.net
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)
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
Information provided in section II.2.1
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 5: Telecommunications services
NUTS code UKJ14
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:
Range: between 1 500 000 and 2 000 000 GBP
64212100, 64212000
Many of the above bodies are members of higher and further education purchasing consortia. These are independent organisations that provide a wide range of collaborative purchase agreements to their member institutions through consensus and the common desire to maximise their purchasing power in the market place. Any member of one of these consortia will be eligible to purchase from this Service by virtue of its membership, as will members of any other similar purchasing consortium in higher or further education that might be formed during the lifetime of the Service.
Membership lists for existing higher and further education purchasing consortia may be found at:
http://www.lupc.ac.uk/about/members-list.aspx
http://www.supc.ac.uk/aboutsupc/supc-members
www.nwupc.ac.uk/members/index.php
http://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
(a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations
(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding up or administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations
(c) has been convicted by a judgement which has he force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate
(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this section or has not supplied such information
Grounds for mandatory rejection as set out in Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006:
(a) conspiracy within the meaning of section 1 or 1A of the Criminal Law Act 1977 or article 9 or 9A of the Criminal Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 where that conspiracy relates to participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA
(b) corruption within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 or section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 where the offence relates to active corruption
(c) the offence of bribery, where the offence relates to active corruption
(d) fraud, where the offence relates to fraud affecting the European Communities’ financial interests as defined by Article 1 of the Convention on the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities, within the meaning of—
(i) the offence of cheating the Revenue
(ii) the offence of conspiracy to defraud
(iii) fraud or theft within the meaning of the Theft Act 1968, the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969, the Theft Act 1978 or the Theft (Northern Ireland) Order 1978
(iv) fraudulent trading within the meaning of section 458 of the Companies Act 1985, article 451 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 or section 993 of the Companies Act 2006
(v) fraudulent evasion within the meaning of section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 or section 72 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994
(vi) an offence in connection with taxation in the European Union within the meaning of section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993
(vii) destroying, defacing or concealing of documents or procuring the execution of a valuable security within the meaning of section 20 of the Theft Act 1968 or section 19 of the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969
(viii) fraud within the meaning of section 2, 3 or 4 of the Fraud Act 2006 or
(ix) making, adapting, supplying or offering to supply articles for use in frauds within the meaning of section 7 of the Fraud Act 2006
(e) money laundering within the meaning of section 340(11) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
(f) any other offence within the meaning of Article 45(1) of the Public Sector Directive as defined by the national law of any relevant State.
Section IV: Procedure
Payable documents: no
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:1.11.2013