Directive 2004/17/EC

Section I: Contracting entity

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

  Thames Water Utilities Limited
  Procurement Support Centre - 3rd Floor East, C/O Mail Room, Rose Kiln Court
  Reading
  RG2 0BY
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Email: procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk

  Further information can be obtained from:

  The above mentioned contact point(s)

  Specifications and additional documents (including documents for 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) Main activity

  Water

• I.3) Contract award on behalf of other contracting entities

  The contracting entity is purchasing on behalf of other contracting entities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

• II.1) Description

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

    1136 Security Products - Perimeter Protection

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

    Supplies

    Purchase

    Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Whole of Thames Water region.

    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: 6

    Duration of the framework agreement

    Duration in months: 120

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

    Thames Water Utilities Ltd (TWUL) is UK largest water and sewerage company, supplying 8.8 million people and providing wasterwater services to 14 million customers across London and the Thames Valley.

    TWUL is running a programme to enhance the security of its sites to ensure compliance with SEMD (Security and Emergency Measures Directions) water industry regulation.

    TWUL is intending to award one or more framework agreements to supplier(s) capable to provide Perimeter Protection Products and after sales services following one or more of the following models options:

    — Supply only of the equipment and ancillary elements,

    — Supply and/or installation, commissioning and related design / project management services of equipment and ancillary elements,

    — After sales support/services (it may include part or all of these elements: spare, wearing and consumable parts, advice, site survey, re-calibration, maintenance).

    TWUL is looking to establish relationships with companies who have the relevant compliance with British Standards (or equivalent European Standards) and a proven track record for supply, installation and integration of equipment into this market.

    TWUL reserves the right to choose only one service / product or to combine two or more services / products into a single agreement depending on the responses received to the OJEU notice. TWUL also reserves the right to make no award as a result of this procurement process, or may award in part or in whole.

    Contract may be awarded under the terms of the agreement either directly by TWUL or by one of its approved contractors or their approved sub-contractors; the bidders should offer the same terms for any of these parties.

    Perimeter Protection Products refer mainly to 3 categories of products:

    — Security Fences (and Toppings),

    — Security Gates (and Toppings),

    — Security Barriers,

    — Security Bollards.

    TWUL has around 3,000 sites ranging from water treatment sites, sewage works, pumping stations to offices. Some are UK Critical National Infrastructure.

    This long term agreement will cover new equipment investment, enhancing existing site systems and implementing new site systems through AMP5 (present – March 2015) and AMP6 (April 2015 – March 2020).

    The yearly historical spend ranges from £1m to £2m but, due to the SEMD project, TWUL is expecting this value to increase. Further information will be given later in the process.

  • II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

    34928200, 44221300, 34928450, 50000000, 50610000

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

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

  • II.1.8) Information about lots

    This contract is divided into lots: yes

    Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots

  • II.1.9) Information about variants

    Variants will be accepted: yes

• II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract

  • II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:

    Information to be provided in the invitation to negotiate.

  • II.2.2) Information about options

    Options: yes

    Description of these options: As a general guidance, TWUL envisages that any agreement for either supply and installation would be for an initial duration of 3 years wih options to extend annually up to a maximum of 5 years. For maintenance, it may be for an initial duration of 5 years with options to extend annually up to a maximum of 10.

    Provisional timetable for recourse to these options:

    in months: 120 (from the award of the contract)

  • II.2.3) Information about renewals

    This contract is subject to renewal: no

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

  Not provided

Information about lots

• Lot No: 1

  • Lot title: Supply Only

• 1) Short description:

  Supply only of Perimeter Protection Products required.

• 2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  34928200, 44221300, 34928450, 50000000, 50610000

• Lot No: 2

  • Lot title: Supply and/or installation and related design services

• 1) Short description:

  Supply and/or installation, commissioning and related design / project management services of Perimeter Protection Products required.

• 2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  34928200, 44221300, 34928450, 50000000, 50610000

• Lot No: 3

  • Lot title: After sales services including maintenance

• 1) Short description:

  After sales support/services. May include part or all of these elements: spares, wearing and consumable parts, advice, site survey, re-calibration and maintenance.

• 2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  34928200, 44221300, 34928450, 50000000, 50610000

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

• III.1) Conditions relating to the contract

  • III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:

    Bonds and/or parent company guarantees of performance and financial standing may be required.

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

    Specified in Invitation to Negotiate document.

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

    Consortia may be required to form a legal entity prior to any award.

  • III.1.4) Other particular conditions:

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

    Description of particular conditions: Operation of the contract will be subject to KPIs and SLAs. A service credit mechanism may be applied to ensure performance level are maintained.

• 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: As detailed in section VI.3 and the PQQ.

  • III.2.2) Economic and financial ability

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: As detailed in section VI.3 and the PQQ.

  • III.2.3) Technical capacity

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: As detailed in section VI.3 and the PQQ.

  • 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: no

  • 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

    Negotiated

    Some candidates have already been selected (if appropriate under certain types of negotiated procedures): no

• IV.2) Award criteria

  • IV.2.1) Award criteria

    The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications or in the invitation to tender or to negotiate

  • IV.2.2) Information about electronic auction

    An electronic auction will be used: yes

    Additional information about electronic auction: Thames Water reserves the right to conduct an electronic auction, if it wishes to do so, as part of the award criteria for the particular contract/agreement.

• IV.3) Administrative information

  • IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting entity:

    1136

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

    no

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

    Not provided

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

    29.10.2012 - 12:00

  • IV.3.5) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up

    English.

  • IV.3.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

    Not provided

  • IV.3.7) Conditions for opening tenders

    Not provided

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:

  Format for requested participation:

  All suppliers who wish to respond to this OJEU notice to indicate their interest in the tender must request a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) document. The PQQ will be available on request via email from procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk and should be completed and submitted by the deadline of 29.10.2012.

  Further instructions for bidders are within the PQQ.

  Variants will be accepted, if submitted in addition to a compliant bid.

  We intend to invite a number of respondents to tender for this contract. Weighted selection criteria will be used to evaluate the responses to the PQQ, as set out in the PQQ.

  Contracts will be under English law.

  General.

  Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to require further information or clarification from an applicant before considering its response.

  Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to exclude an applicant from the procurement process if it is subsequently determined that any information supplied was inaccurate, incomplete or untrue and was relied on for selection purposes.

  Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to make no award as a result of this procurement process. Except for the framework agreement, if any, concluded with the successful tenderer, nothing in the procurement process shall create a contract, whether express or implied, between Thames Water Utilities Limited and any applicant.

  Thames Water Utilities Limited (including its employees and advisers) does not make any representations, warranties or other commitments, whether express or implied, in relation to the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the information provided to applicants in this contract notice or otherwise in connection with this tender, except as may be specifically agreed in any contract concluded at the end of this tender process.

  Thames Water Utilities Limited may disclose any information if required to do so by any applicable laws or regulations (including but not limited to, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, to the extent that these may now or in the future apply to Thames Water Utilities Limited), any requirements or guidelines of any competent regulatory body, and any order of any court of competent jurisdiction.

• 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: Thames Water Utilities Limited will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.

    The Utilities Contracts Regulations (SI 2006 No 6) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

  • 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:

  11.10.2012