Tender: UK-Southampton: financial leasing services

UK-Southampton: financial leasing services

2010/S 143-220798

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

  Attn: Tel. E-mail: Pro-Cure Collabrorative Procurement Hub
  Royal South Hants Hospital, Brintons House
  Perry Spender
  SO14 0YGSouthampton
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1189167945
  perry.spender@suht.swest.nhs.uk

  Internet address(es)

  General address of the contracting authority https://pro-cure.bravosolution.co.uk

  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)

  Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned contact point(s)

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

  National or federal agency/office

  Health

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

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

  The Provision of Finacial Leasing Servicies Framework.

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

  Services

  Service category: No 6

  NUTS code UK

• II.1.3)
  The notice involves

  The establishment of a framework agreement

• II.1.4)
  Information on framework agreement

  Framework agreement with several operators

  Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 2

  Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

  estimated cost excluding VAT

  Range: between 30 000 000,00 and 150 000 000,00 GBP

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

  The provision of financial leasing services for use by NHS bodies in the UK including (but not limited to) NHS Acute Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Mental Health Trusts, NHS Ambulance Trusts and Primary Care Trusts.

• II.1.6)
  Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  66114000

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

  Yes

• II.1.8)
  Division into lots

  Yes

  tenders should be submitted for one or more lots

• II.1.9)
  Variants will be accepted

  Yes

• II.2)
  QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT

II.2.1)
Total quantity or scope

• II.2.2)
  Options

  Yes

  description of these options: The Framework shall be in place for 2 years With the Option to extend for up to 1 year followed by a final option to extend for up a further year.

  provisional timetable for recourse to these options: in months: 24 (from the award of the contract)

  Number of possible renewals 2

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

INFORMATION ABOUT LOTS

LOT NO: 1

TITLE NHS Finance Lease

• 1)SHORT DESCRIPTION

  Finance leases for NHS.

• 2)COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV)

  66114000

• 3)QUANTITY OR SCOPE

  Excluding VAT

  Range between 30 000 000,00 and 150 000 000,00 GBP

4)INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR STARTING/COMPLETION

• 5)ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT LOTS

  If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole/in part via electronic means using the Internet, and may also be through the medium of an electronic reverse auction.

  Pro-Cure is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for and on behalf of the NHS with whom the successful offeror(s) will ultimately enter into contracts for the supply of the goods and/or services. Any public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from Pro-Cure.

  The contract conditions will be set out in the invitation to tender and it is the contracting authority’s intention to include a certain contractual provisions regarding a management charge, which may be applied to purchases made under contract(s) awarded. Further details will be made available via contract documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.

  Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information:

  This exercise will be conducted on the Pro-Cure portal at https://bravosolution.co.uk. Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement-specific information through the Pro-Cure portal as follows:

  i) Candidates should register on the Pro-Cure portal at https:// bravosolution.co.uk;

  ii) Once registered, candidates must express interest as follows:

  a. login to the Pro-Cure eTendering portal;

  b. select Response to OJEU advert and PQQ;

  c. select Open Access PQQ;

  d. access listing related to this contract and view details;

  e. click on Express Interest link;

  iii) Once you have expressed interest, access the My PQQs page where you can download documentation (if required in III.2.1.1.ii) and construct your reply as instructed.

  You must publish your reply using the publish link. For support in submitting your expression of interest contact the eTendering Help-desk at +44 08003684850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.

LOT NO: 2

• 1)
  SHORT DESCRIPTION

  NHS operating Lease.

• 2)
  COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV)

  66114000

3)
QUANTITY OR SCOPE

4)
INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR STARTING/COMPLETION

• 5)
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT LOTS

  If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole/in part via electronic means using the Internet, and may also be through the medium of an electronic reverse auction.

  Pro-Cure is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for and on behalf of the NHS with whom the successful offeror(s) will ultimately enter into contracts for the supply of the goods and/or services. Any public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from Pro-Cure.

  The contract conditions will be set out in the invitation to tender and it is the contracting authority’s intention to include a certain contractual provisions regarding a management charge, which may be applied to purchases made under contract(s) awarded. Further details will be made available via contract documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.

  Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information:

  This exercise will be conducted on the Pro-Cure portal at https://bravosolution.co.uk. Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement-specific information through the Pro-Cure portal as follows:

  i) Candidates should register on the Pro-Cure portal at https:// bravosolution.co.uk;

  ii) Once registered, candidates must express interest as follows:

  a. login to the Pro-Cure eTendering portal;

  b. select Response to OJEU advert and PQQ;

  c. select Open Access PQQ;

  d. access listing related to this contract and view details;

  e. click on Express Interest link;

  iii) Once you have expressed interest, access the My PQQs page where you can download documentation (if required in III.2.1.1.ii) and construct your reply as instructed.

  You must publish your reply using the publish link. For support in submitting your expression of interest contact the eTendering Help-desk at +44 08003684850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

• III.1)
  CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
• III.1.1)
  Deposits and guarantees required

  Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.

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

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: 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 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.

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

  1) Entering general PQQ supplier information Pro-Cure utilizes the NHS supplier information database (sid4health) to manage and assess general pre-qualification information in the form of a profile. Candidates are requested to provide their profile in sid4health as follows:

  i) Candidates should register on sid4health at http://www.sid4health.nhs.uk/home.action and submit their sid4health company profile for publication to the system. Candidates already registered on sid4health must ensure that information is up to date,

  ii) Candidates should ensure all the relevant sections of their sid4health profile are completed to demonstrate their ability to meet the short-listing criteria applicable to this contract. Those items required within the sections are as set out within the minimum short-listing criteria guide which appears in the supplier toolkit on the following page http://www.pasa.nhs.uk/pasaweb/nhsprocurement/sid4health/landingpage.htm,

  iii) Where access to sid4health is unavailable, please contact the sid4health Helpdesk at: help@sid4health.nhs.uk.

• 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 on these turnovers is available. Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met (If applicable) Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required (if applicable) Average turnover for the past 3 years is 3 times greater than the average annual estimated contract value.

  Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:

  a) 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.

  b) 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;

  c) 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;

  d) 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;

  e) 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;

  f) 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;

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

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

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

  j) with regard to the products to be supplied:

  — samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests,

  — certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications.

• III.2.3)
  Technical capacity

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

  As per requirements to complete sid4health profile – see III.2.1 for more information on how to complete sid4health profile.

III.2.4)
Reserved contracts

III.3)
CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS

III.3.1)
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession

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

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

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

  Yes

  Supplied at mini competition stage if applicable.

• 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

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

  23.8.2010 - 14:00

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

• 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

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

VI.1)
THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT

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

  No

• VI.3)
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  Pro-Cure is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for and on behalf of the NHS and other public sector bodies with whom the successful offeror(s) will ultimately enter into contracts for the supply of the goods and/or services. Any public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from Pro-Cure.

  The contract conditions will be set out in the invitation to tender and it is the contracting authority’s intention to include a certain contractual provisions regarding a management charge, which may be applied to purchases made under contract(s) awarded. Further details will be made available via contract documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.

  Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information:

  This exercise will be conducted on the Pro-Cure portal at https://bravosolution.co.uk. Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement-specific information through the Pro-Cure portal as follows:

  i) Candidates should register on the Pro-Cure portal at https:// bravosolution.co.uk;

  ii) Once registered, candidates must express interest as follows:

  a. login to the Pro-Cure eTendering portal;

  b. select Response to OJEU advert and PQQ;

  c. select Open Access PQQ;

  d. access listing related to this contract and view details;

  e. click on Express Interest link;

  iii) Once you have expressed interest, access the My PQQs page where you can download documentation (if required in III.2.1.1.ii) and construct your reply as instructed. You must publish your reply using the publish link. For support in submitting your expression of interest contact the eTendering Help-desk at +44 08003684850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.

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

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

  21.7.2010