Tender: UK-Bexleyheath: financial transaction processing and clearing-house services

UK-Bexleyheath: financial transaction processing and clearing-house services

2010/S 143-220638

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

  Attn: Tel. E-mail: Fax London Borough of Bexley
  Civic Centre Broadway
  Mr Francis Parker
  DA6 7LBBexleyheath
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 2082946424
  Francis.Parker@bexley.gov.uk
  +44 2082946426

• 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

  Banking Services.

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

  Services

  Service category: No 2

  Main place of performance Several sites within the area served by the council.

  NUTS code UKI22

• 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)

  Banking 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.2)
  QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
• II.2.1)
  Total quantity or scope

  Excluding VAT

  Range between 400 000 and 500 000 GBP

• II.2.2)
  Options

  No

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

  Duration in months: 60 (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

  None.

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

  See tender documents.

• 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

  Yes

  Tenders must provide access to all the relevant paper and electronic clearing systems.

• 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: Any supplier may be disqualified who:

  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 compulsory winding up the 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 contract 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 organization, 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 May 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 June 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: 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 of these turnovers is available.

• III.2.3)
  Technical capacity

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met (if applicable):

  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 issues 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.

  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.

• 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

  Yes

  Service provider must be a bank registered in the UK, with direct membership of the UK clearing system. The service provider must also meet a credit rating of Fitch short term ratings of at least F1+, Long term ratings of at least AA-A support rating of 1 and either individual ratings of at least C or are institutions in which a government holds a significant/controlling interest.

• 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

  Open

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.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

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

  No

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

  Payable documents No

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

  13.9.2010 - 12:00

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

  23.7.2010

• 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

  Duration in days 90 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

• IV.3.8)
  Conditions for opening tenders

  Date: 13.9.2010 - 12:01

  Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders No

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

• VI.1)
  THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT

  Yes

  estimated timing for further notices to be published: 60 months or 84 months if option to extend is exercised

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

  No

VI.3)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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

  Tel. DRS-CIArb on belhalf of the chartered institute of arbitrators
  12 Bloomsbury Square London
  WC1A 2LP
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 8452707055

VI.4.2)
Lodging of appeals

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

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

  22.7.2010