Tender: UK-Twickenham: financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
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UK-Twickenham: financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
2010/S 49-072828
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
- I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Civic Centre, 44 York Street, Attn: Coral Baxter (Head of Capital Finance), Twickenham TW1 3BZ, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 2088917247. E-mail: c.baxter@richmond.gov.uk, daniel.wills@richmond.gov.uk.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.richmond.gov.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: http://richmond.g2b.info/index.htm.
Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
- I.2)TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Regional or local authority.
General public services.
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-Twickenham: banking services.
- II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Services.
Service category: No 6.
Main place of performance: Several sites within the area serviced by the Council.
- II.1.3)The notice involves:
A public contract.
- II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
Delivery of a comprehensive banking service involving maintenance of the Council's bank accounts, handling of paper, BACS and CHAPS clearing, cash processing and other activities associated with local authority banking business. Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services.
- II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
66172000.
- 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.3)DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:
Duration in months: 120 (from the award of the contract).
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement:
II.2)QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
II.2.2)Options:
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
- III.1)CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
- III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
As specified in the tender documents.
- III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:
As specified in the tender documents.
- III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
As specified in the tender documents.
- 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.
Tenderers must be authorised to act as a bank in the UK and regulated by the FSA under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
- III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: As specified in the tender documents.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As specified in the tender documents.
- III.2.3)Technical capacity:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Tenderers must provide proof of competence in dealing with comparable local authority contracts plus proof of ability to provide a comprehensive range of money transmission and associated services to cater for high volume banking business which conforms to APACS standards and which gives access to the UK clearing systems.
As specified in the tender documents.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As specified in the tender documents.
- 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:
Open.
- 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.3.2)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: 6.4.2010 - 14:00.
Payable documents: no.
- IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
26.4.2010 - 14:00.
- IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:
English.
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders:
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
- VI.1)THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT:
- VI.3)ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
GO reference: GO 10031006/01.
- VI.5)DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
10.3.2010.
VI.2)CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:
VI.4)PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals:
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
