Tender: UK-Stoke-on-Trent: urban planning services

UK-Stoke-on-Trent: urban planning services

2010/S 47-069374

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

• I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

  Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Corporate Purchasing and Contracts Unit, Central Services Directorate, PO Box 1709, Swann House, Boothen Road, Attn: Matt Robinson, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 4UJ, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1782572880. E-mail: matthew.robinson@stoke.gov.uk. Fax +44 1782232808.

  Internet address(es):

  General address of the contracting authority: www.stoke.gov.uk.

  Address of the buyer profile: www.stoke.gov.uk.

  Further information can be obtained at: URL: www.wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk.

  Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at: URL: www.wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk.

  Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: URL: www.wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk.

• I.2)TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:

  Regional or local authority.

  Housing and community amenities.

  General public services.

  Social protection.

  Health.

  Public order and safety.

  Education.

  Recreation, culture and religion.

  Economic and financial affairs.

  Environment.

  The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no.

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

• II.1)DESCRIPTION
• II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

  UK-Stoke-on-Trent: Stoke Town masterplan.

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

  Services.

  Service category: No 12.

  Main place of performance: Stoke-on-Trent.

  NUTS code: UKG23.

• II.1.3)The notice involves:

  A public contract.

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement:

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

  The Stoke Town regeneration team is leading the redevelopment of Stoke Town as part of the North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership (NSRP). We wish to procure an outstanding, respected and experienced multi-disciplinary team to develop a comprehensive masterplan for Stoke Town.

  It is envisaged this team will be lead by a very highly regarded architectural professional, reflecting the nature of the exceptional raw material the town offers.

  The tender process is to be undertaken as a two stage restricted procedure with the first stage being a pre-qualification stage requiring completion of a pre-qualification questionnaire. From this Pre-Qualification phase we will derive our tender list (a shortlist of approximately six consultants) that will be selected to progress to the Invitation To Tender (ITT) stage.

  The ITT is anticipated to require the return of tenders that may include (but not limited to) outstanding, inspirational proposals for the town centre (and Spode, its unique cornerstone development site), and methodology relating to the Masterplanning requirements. An interview is intended to form part of the evaluation process.

  The successful submission will undertake a commission to develop the detail of the tendered proposals together with a comprehensive masterplan for the wider Stoke Town conurbation. The aim is to find an outstanding team to develop the masterplan and provide real leadership and inspiration on the design of its core ingredients.

• II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

  71410000, 71200000, 71220000, 71240000, 71400000.

• II.1.7)Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

  No.

• II.1.8)Division into lots:

  No.

II.1.9)Variants will be accepted:

II.2)QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

II.2.2)Options:

• II.3)DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:

  Duration in months: 6 (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:

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

  Anticipted standard conditions as detailed in the NEC Professional Services conditions of contract.

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

• III.1.4)Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject:

  No.

• 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 requirements are met: (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 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 contracting 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 organisation, 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 26.5.1972 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 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.

• III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity:

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if 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 on these turnovers is available.

• III.2.3)Technical capacity:

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

  (a) a list of the works carried out over the past 5 years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct;

  (b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: - where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, - where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;

  (c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work;

  (d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities;

  (e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;

  (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;

  (g) for public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in appropriate cases, an indication of the environmental management measures that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the contract;

  (h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years;

  (i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;

  (j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract;

• III.2.4)Reserved contracts:

  No.

• III.3)CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
• III.3.1)Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:

  No.

• III.3.2)Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:

  Yes.

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 number of operators 6

  Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As detailed in the pre-qualification documentation.

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

• 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)An electronic auction will be used:

  No.

• IV.3)ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
• IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

  CPU/459.

• 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: 26.3.2010 - 12:00.

  Payable documents: no.

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

  12.4.2010 - 12:00.

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

  30.4.2010.

• 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:

• IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders:

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

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

• VI.1)THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT:

  No.

• VI.2)CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:

  No.

• VI.3)ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

  To access the pre-qualification questionnaire (pqq) and further information, please go to "www.wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk" and click "View current opportunities and notices". It is here that you will be able to register, find further information related to this opportunity and be able to complete the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

  GO reference: GO 10030420/01.

• VI.4)PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
• VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:

  Stoke on Trent City Council, Glebe Street, ST4 1RN Stoke on Trent.

• VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals:

  Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: In accordance with Regulation 32 and Regulation 47 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.

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

• VI.5)DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

  4.3.2010.