Tender: UK-Kirkintilloch: business and management consultancy services
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UK-Kirkintilloch: business and management consultancy services
2010/S 49-072832
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
- I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):
East Dunbartonshire Council, Broomhill Industrial Estate, Kilsyth Road, Contact: Corporate Procurement section, Attn: Ken Middlemas, Kirkintilloch G66 1TF, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1415745551. E-mail: Ken.Middlemas@eastdunbarton.gov.uk. Fax +44 1415745622.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx....
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: East Dunbartonshire Council, Broomhill Industrial Estate, Kilsyth Road, Contact: Corporate Procurement section, Attn: Ken Middlemas, Kirkintilloch G66 1TJ, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1415745551. E-mail: Ken.Middlemas@eastdunbarton.gov.uk. Fax +44 1415745622. URL: www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: East Dunbartonshire Council, Broomhill Industrial Estate, Kilsyth Road, Contact: Corporate Procurement section, Attn: Ken.Middlemas, Kirkintilloch G66 1TF, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1415745551. E-mail: Ken.Middlemas@eastdunbarton.gov.uk. Fax +44 1415745622. URL: www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk.
- I.2)TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Regional or local authority.
General public services.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
- II.1)DESCRIPTION
- II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
EDC/2010/1028 Consultancy Services - Leisure and Culture Trust.
- II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Services.
Service category: No 11.
Main place of performance: East Dunbartonshire Area, Scotland.
NUTS code: UK.
- II.1.3)The notice involves:
A public contract.
- II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
Consultancy services to assist in the establishing of a Leisure and Culture Trust.
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=1....
- II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
79410000, 79412000.
- II.1.7)Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
- II.1.8)Division into lots:
No.
- II.2)QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
- II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
The approximate value of the requirement is circa 150 000-200 000 GBP.
- II.2.2)Options:
No.
- II.3)DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:
Duration in months: 6 (from the award of the contract).
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement:
II.1.9)Variants will be accepted:
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
- III.1)CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
- III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:
Payment will be 28 days from receipt of a valid invoice.
- III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
If more than one organisation in venture joint and severall liability will apply.
- 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: (1) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they are not bankrupt or the subject of an administration order, are not being wound-up, have not granted a trust deed, are not the subject of a petition presented for sequestration of their estate, have not had a receiver, manager or administrator appointed and are not otherwise apparently insolvent.
(2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process.
(3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession.
(4) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of their business or profession.
(5) All candidates must comply with the requirements of the State in which they are established, regarding registration on the professional or trade register.
(6) Any candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to continue with this procurement process.
(7) All candidates will have to demonstrate that they are licensed, or a member of the relevant organisation, in the State where they are established, when the law of that State prohibits the provision of the services, described in this notice, by a person who is not so licensed or who is not a member of the relevant organisation.
(8) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the candidate is established
(9) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the economic operator is established.
- III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (1) All candidates will be required to provide a reference from their bank.
(2) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.
(3) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice.
(4) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.
- III.2.3)Technical capacity:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
(1) A statement of the candidate's average annual number of staff and managerial staff over the previous 3 years.
(2) Details of the educational and professional qualifications of their managerial staff; and those of the person(s) who would be responsible for providing the services or carrying out the work or works under the contract.
(3) All candidates will be required to provide certification drawn up by an independent body attesting the compliance of the economic operator with quality assurance standards based on the relevant European standards.
(4) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.
(5) A list of works carried out over the past 5 years, detailing the value of the consideration received; when and where the work or works were carried out; and whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade or profession and properly completed.
- III.3)CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
- III.3.2)Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
Yes.
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
III.2.4)Reserved contracts:
III.3.1)Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
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: 5. Maximum number: 6
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: These will be in the pre-qualification questionairre.
- 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:
EDC/2010/1028.
- IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
6.4.2010 - 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.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
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:
It is intended that the successful organisation will assist to prepare the necessary business planning, legal, and associated documents to set up a trust limited by guarantee with charitable status, and to effect a transfer within a short time period of the Councils' Leisure and Culture services whilst retaining the primary propert assets.
The PQQ should be available from 15.3.2010.
(SC Ref:185075).
- VI.4)PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
- VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
East Dunbartonshire Council, Civic Way, Lenzie Road, Kirkintilloch G66 4TJ, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1415788000. URL: www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk.
- VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
Scottish Government, 5 Atlantic Quay, 150 Broomielaw, Glasgow G2 8LU, UNITED KINGDOM.
- VI.5)DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
8.3.2010.
VI.2)CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals:
