Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

  For the attention of: Mrs Jane Turner
  Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council
  Corporate Procurement, Redcar & Cleveland House, Kirkleatham Street
  Redcar
  TS10 1RT
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Email: jane.turner@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
  Tel: +44 1642771258

  Internet address(es):

  General address of the contracting authority: www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk

  Further information can be obtained from:

  For the attention of: Internet address: Nepo portal
  QTLE-8QTHVD
  www.nepoportal.org

  Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from:

  For the attention of: Internet address: NEPO portal
  QTLE-8QTHVD
  UNITED KINGDOM
  www.nepoportal.org

  Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:

  For the attention of: Internet address: NEPO portal
  QTLE-8QTHVD
  UNITED KINGDOM
  www.nepoportal.org

• I.2) Type of the contracting authority

  Regional or local authority

• I.3) Main activity

  General public services

• I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

  The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes

Section II: Object of the contract

• II.1) Description

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

    Management & delivery of major adaptations (DFG) & minor adaptations & handy person services.

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

    Services

    Service category No 27: Other services

    Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Redcar & Cleveland.

    NUTS code UKC1

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

    The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement

  • II.1.4) Information on framework agreement

    Framework agreement with a single operator

    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 925 000 and 5 000 000 GBP

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

    Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council wishes to commission a provider to manage the borough wide home adaptations/ maintenance service to provide home maintenance service, falls prevention work and technical support for Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) available to all vulnerable adult residents in the borough either as a subsidised service for those on low income benefits but also as a private service to all others.

    TUPE may apply to the delivery of this contract.

  • II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

    79400000, 85000000, 75100000, 70331000

  • 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:

    This contract is initially being let by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, however access to this contract maybe extended to other public sector organisations within the Tees Valley; Stockton on Tees Borough Council, Darlington Borough Council, Hartlepool Borough Council, Middlesbrough Borough Council. The requirements will vary from organisation to organisation and there is no guarantee that all organisations will participate in this contract in the future. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council will only be responsible for their list of contract requirements. All other organisations will be responsible for their individual requirements and contract arrangement.

    This contract is available for other public sector organisations to use and if they choose to do so the upper estimate of value is GBP 5M.

    Estimated value excluding VAT:

    Range: between 925 000 and 5 000 000 GBP

  • II.2.2) Information about options

    Options: no

  • II.2.3) Information about renewals

    Not provided

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

  Duration in months: 48 (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:

    Not provided

  • III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

    Not provided

  • III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

    Not provided

  • III.1.4) Other particular conditions

    Not provided

• 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: Any supplier may be disqualified who:

    (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 compulsory winding up the 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 judgment which has the 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 contract authorities can demonstrate;

    (e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;

    (f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;

    (g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information;

    (h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organization, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA;

    (i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26 May 1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;

    (j)has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities;

    (k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.

  • III.2.2) Economic and financial ability

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;

    (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;

    (c) a statement of the undertaking’s overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information of these turnovers is available.

  • III.2.3) Technical capacity

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:

    (f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking’s managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;

  • III.2.4) Information about reserved contracts

    Not provided

• III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts

  • III.3.1) Information about a particular profession

    Not provided

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

    Not provided

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

    Not provided

  • IV.1.3) Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

    Not provided

• 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:

    QTLE-8QTHVD

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

    no

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

    Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 28.5.2012 - 09:00

    Payable documents: no

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

    28.5.2012 - 12:00

  • IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

    Not provided

  • 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

    in days: 90 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

  • IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders

    Date: 28.5.2012 - 12:00

    Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no

Section VI: Complementary information

• VI.1) Information about recurrence

  Not provided

• VI.2) Information about European Union funds

  The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: yes

  Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): DFG is the Disabled Facilities Grant funding is the annual allocation made by the Government Department of Communities and Local Government.

• VI.3) Additional information

  This contract is initially being let by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, however access to this contract maybe extended to other public sector organisations within the Tees Valley; Stockton on Tees Borough Council, Darlington Borough Council, Hartlepool Borough Council, Middlesbrough Borough Council. The requirements will vary from organisation to organisation and there is no guarantee that all organisations will participate in this contract in the future. Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council will only be responsible for their list of contract requirements. All other organisations will be responsible for their individual requirements and contract arrangement.

  TUPE may apply to the delivery of this contract.

• VI.4) Procedures for appeal

  • VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures

    Not provided

  • VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals

    Not provided

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

    Not provided

• VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

  12.4.2012