Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

  For the attention of: David Lamb
  NWUPC Ltd
  Albert House, 17 Bloom Street
  Manchester
  M1 3HZ
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Email: david.lamb@liverpool.ac.uk
  Tel: +44 1612348003

  Internet address(es):

  General address of the contracting authority: www.nwupc.ac.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

  Other: Higher Education Consortia

• 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: yes

Section II: Object of the contract

• II.1) Description

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

    Portable Appliance Testing.

  • 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: Consortia members throughout the Uk including Northern Ireland. A list of member for each participating consortia can be located at:

    NWUPC http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/members/index.php.

    NEUPC http://neupc.procureweb.ac.uk/members.php.

    SUPC http://supc.ac.uk/aboutsupc/supc-members.

    APUC http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/usefullinks.htm.

    LUPC http://www.lupc.ac.uk/about/members-list.aspx.

    HEPCW http://hepcw.procureweb.ac.uk/forsuppliers.

    Research Councils http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/ (Part of the LUPC Membership).

    CPC http://www.cpc.salford.ac.uk/members/regions.php.

    NUTS code

  • 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 several operators

    maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 30

    Duration of the framework agreement

    Duration in months: 25

    Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

    Estimated value excluding VAT:

    Range: between 1 405 166 and 5 620 666 GBP

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

    The North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium Limited is inviting tenders to establish a framework agreement for the supply and delivery of Portable Appliance Testing. The framework agreement will be open to the following consortia and their members.

    NWUPC http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/members/index.php.

    NEUPC http://neupc.procureweb.ac.uk/members.php.

    SUPC http://supc.ac.uk/aboutsupc/supc-members.

    APUC http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/usefullinks.htm.

    LUPC http://www.lupc.ac.uk/about/members-list.aspx.

    HEPCW http://hepcw.procureweb.ac.uk/forsuppliers.

    Research Councils http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/ (Part of the LUPC Membership).

    CPC http://www.cpc.salford.ac.uk/members/regions.php.

    The resulting Framework Agreement will be open to the current and future member Institutions & affiliated Public Sector bodies including FE colleges and the Research Councils (http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/) as defined by the above.

    Consortia. Any other HE or FE Institution within the UK wishing to participate in this agreement is only able to do so via a subsequent application that is accepted by the NWUPC. The membership of the Consortia may change in the future owing to strategic realignment or the inclusion of new full or associate members, who could be outside the education/research sector, but within the public sector. Institutions that are not members of the Consortia may be subject to the payment of additional access fees on an annual basis to the co-ordinating body in respect of their use of the agreement. These fees are individually agreed up front with each institution and may be waived at the discretion of the NWUPC. The agreements will also be made available, during their incubation period, to those participating institutions spin-off companies where 50 % or more of their equity is owned by a participating institution or group of participating institutions.

  • II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

    50300000

  • II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

    The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no

  • 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:

    The NWUPC wishes to establish a multi-Provider Framework Agreement for the provision of Portable Appliance Testing.

  • II.2.2) Information about options

    Not provided

  • II.2.3) Information about renewals

    Not provided

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

  Starting 1.12.2012. Completion 17.10.2014

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

• III.1) Conditions relating to the contract

  • III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:

    See Documents.

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

    See Documents.

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

    See Documents.

  • III.1.4) Other particular conditions

    The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: yes

    Description of particular conditions: See Documents.

• 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: See Documents.

  • III.2.2) Economic and financial ability

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

    Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: See Documents.

  • III.2.3) Technical capacity

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

    See Documents.

    Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:

    See Documents.

  • III.2.4) Information about reserved contracts

    Not provided

• III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts

  • III.3.1) Information about a particular profession

    Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: yes

    Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision:

  • 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: no

Section IV: Procedure

• IV.1) Type of procedure

  • IV.1.1) Type of procedure

    Restricted

  • IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

    Envisaged minimum number 3: and maximum number 30

  • 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

    Not provided

  • 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:

    EST/02/2012

  • 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: 5.8.2012

    Payable documents: no

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

    6.8.2012

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

    31.8.2012

  • 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

    Not provided

  • IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders

    Date: 7.8.2012

    Place:

    NWUPC Ltd Albert House 17 Bloom St Manchester M1 3HZ.

    Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes

    Additional information about authorised persons and opening procedure: NWUPC Ltd Staff.

Section VI: Complementary information

• VI.1) Information about recurrence

  This is a recurrent procurement: no

• VI.2) Information about European Union funds

  The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

• VI.3) Additional information

  Not provided

• VI.4) Procedures for appeal

  • VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures

    Not provided

  • VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals

    Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The Authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendarday standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers.Applicants who are unsuccessful shall be informed by the Authority as soon as possible after the decision hasbeen made as to the reasons why the Applicant was unsuccessful. If an appeal regarding the award of thecontract has not been successfully resolved, The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No. 5) providefor aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by breach of the rules to take legal action.Any such action must be brought within the applicable limitation period. Where a contract has not been enteredinto, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any documentand may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may, depending on the circumstances,award damages, make a declaration of ineffectiveness, order the Authority to pay a fine, and/or order that theduration of the contract be shortened. The purpose of the standstill period referred to above is to allow theparties to apply to the Courts to set aside the award decision before the contract is entered into.

  • 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:

  6.7.2012