Tender: UK-Colchester: construction-related services
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UK-Colchester: construction-related services
2010/S 48-071149
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
- I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Contact: Central Purchasing Unit, Attn: Mr K.Mason, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1206872954. E-mail: procure@essex.ac.uk. Fax +44 1206872943.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.essex.ac.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: www.essex.ac.uk/purchasing.
Further information can be obtained at: E-mail: procure@essex.ac.uk.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at: E-mail: procure@essex.ac.uk.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: E-mail: procure@essex.ac.uk.
- I.2)TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Body governed by public law.
Education.
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:
Quantity Surveying Services for the University of Essex Knowledge Gateway Colchester Essex.
- 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: Colchester Essex.
NUTS code: UKH3.
- II.1.3)The notice involves:
The establishment of a framework agreement.
- II.1.4)Information on framework agreement:
Framework agreement with several operators.
Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 4.
Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 4 years with the possibility of an extension for 1 year.
Justification for a framework agreement, the duration of which exceeds four years: The partnership between the University of Essex and its development partner is longer than 4 years.
- II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
Carisbrooke Research Parks Ltd., and the University of Essex have created a development partnership known as the Carisbrooke-Essex Partnership. They are seeking to create a framework of suitably experienced quantity surveying practices with a strong track record of cost managing plot developments in a business park/research park setting to include office/R&D buildings, leisure, hotels and public houses.
- II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
71500000.
- II.1.7)Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
- II.1.8)Division into lots:
No.
- II.1.9)Variants will be accepted:
No.
- II.2)QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
- II.2.2)Options:
No.
- II.3)DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:
Duration in months: 48 months with the possibility of extension for 12 months (from the award of the contract).
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
- III.1)CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
- III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
The University reserves the right to request deposits, guarantees, bonds, insurance, warranties or other forms of securities as it feels necessary.
- III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:
In accordance with the University's payment terms and conditions.
- III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Joint and several liability.
- 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: Certificate of Enrolment on the professional trade register under the conditions laid down by the laws of the member state in which the tenderer is established, for instance the trade register of companies in UK and Ireland.
Evidence of successful implementation of similar contracts.
- III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Audited accounts for the last 3 years to include the following:
Balance Sheet.
Profit & Loss Account.
Full notes to the accounts, Directors report and Auditor's report.
A copy of your Public Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance certificates.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Public Liability Indemnity of not less than GBP 10 million.
Professional Indemnity of not less than GBP 5 million.
- III.2.3)Technical capacity:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
A copy of your management chart indicating ares of responsibility and personnel that would contribute to the management and delivery of any contract with the development partnership.
Evidence of specific projects of a similar nature handled by the practice in the last 3 years.
Evidence of educational and professional qualifications of individual Quantity Surveyors that would undertake the work.
Skills of staff that would be assigned to the project.
- 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:
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 number of operators 12
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: Evidence of the successful implementation of similar projects - weighting 10 %.
Financial standing of tenderer - weighting 10 %.
Evidence of educational and professional qualifications of individual Quantity Surveyors that would undertake the work - weighting 20 %.
Skills of staff that would be assigned to the project - weighting 20 %.
Experience of similar projects undertaken in the last 3 years - weighting 20 %.
Evidence of effective cost management/reduction - weighting 20 %.
- IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no.
- IV.2)AWARD CRITERIA
- IV.2.1)Award criteria:
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated below:
2. Price. Weighting: 50 %.
3. Compliance with specification. Weighting: 50 %.
- 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:
T270.
- IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
No.
- IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
Payable documents: no.
- IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
13.4.2010 - 12:00.
- IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:
12.5.2010.
- IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:
English.
- IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders:
Date: 22.6.2010 - 12:00.
Place: Colchester Essex.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
Project Director.
Director of Estate Management.
Deputy Director of Estate Management (Purchasing).
Finance Officer.
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:
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:
Please contact procure@essex.ac.uk regarding any enquiries and for a copy of the pre-qualification document.
- VI.4)PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
- VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals:
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The University will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the University before the contract is entered into. Applicants have two working days from notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of three working days before expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from the address in section I.1.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No5) 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). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into, the court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the University to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into, the court may only award damages.
- VI.5)DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
5.3.2010.
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
