Tender: UK-Southend-on-Sea: project-design services other than for construction work

UK-Southend-on-Sea: project-design services other than for construction work

2010/S 164-252082

CONTRACT NOTICE

Works

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

  Contact: Attn: Tel. E-mail: South Essex College
  Luker Road, Essex
  Finance
  Anthony McGarel
  SS1 1NDSouthend-on-Sea
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1702220412
  steve.smith@gvagrimley.co.uk

  Internet address(es)

  General address of the contracting authority www.southessex.ac.uk

  Address of the buyer profile http://www.mytenders.org/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA5421

  Further information can be obtained at:Contact: Attn: Tel. E-mail: Internet: GVA Grimley Ltd
  10 Stratton Street
  Planning Development and Regeneration
  Steve Smith
  W1J 8JRLondon
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 2079112217
  steve.smith@gvagrimley.co.uk
  www.gvagrimley.co.uk

  Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:Contact: Attn: Tel. E-mail: Internet: GVA Grimley Ltd
  10 Stratton Street
  Planning Development and Regeneration
  Steve Smith
  W1J 8JRLondon
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 2079112217
  steve.smith@gvagrimley.co.uk
  www.gvagrimley.co.uk

  Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:Contact: Attn: Tel. E-mail: Internet: GVA Grimley Ltd
  10 Stratton Street
  Planning Development and Regeneration
  Steve Smith
  W1J 8JRLondon
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 2079112217
  steve.smith@gvagrimley.co.uk
  www.gvagrimley.co.uk

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

  Body governed by public law

  Education

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

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

  Strategic accommodation change.

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

  Works

  Realisation, by whatever means of work, corresponding to the requirements specified by the contracting authorities

  Main site or location of works Grays both the Woodview Campus of South Essex College and the area around Grays Town Centre.

  NUTS code UK

• 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)

  Working with the College to undertake due diligence on a new site in Grays Town Centre. The successful Private Sector Partner (PSP) would then work with the College to develop designs, obtain statutory consents and construct circa 15 000 m² (GIA) of new educational facilities. In addition the PSP will be required to buy the College's existing Woodview site which will be surplus to requirements following construction of new facilities. The PSP will work with the College to design andobtain statutory consents for residential development. The PSP may be required to provide loan and transitional finance to structure the deal.

• II.1.6)
  Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  79421200, 71322000, 45000000, 70122000, 66122000

• 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

  Yes

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

  Excluding VAT

  Range between 40 000 000 and 50 000 000 GBP

• II.2.2)
  Options

  Yes

  description of these options: Extension may be necessary if projected timescales for the project are exceeded for reasons outside the control of the College or PSP.

  provisional timetable for recourse to these options: in months: 18 (from the award of the contract)

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

  Duration in months: 36 (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

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

  Installment Payments.

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

  Yes

  a) Viability - sufficient overall funding being available to the College which in turn is dependent on costs, the value of the bids for the Woodview site and College borrowing approval to sufficient level;

  b) Sufficient overall funding being available to the College which in turn is dependent on costs and receipt levels bid for the Woodview site;

  c) Skills Funding Agency approval;

  d) Town planning consent for both new educational facilities and Woodview Site.

• 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: All applicants are required to sign and return Form 2 - Statement Relating to Good Standing - Criteria for rejection of service providers - in accordance with Article 45 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulation 23 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006. This is included in the Memorandum of Information and is available to all potential bidders via the following link or web site address:

  http://dataroom.gvagrimley.co.uk/SouthEssexCollegeOJEUDocuments

• 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.

  Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required The economic operator must have sufficient economic and financial capacity to secure the delivery of the proposed works i.e the total project cost should not be greater than circa one fifth of the economic operator's turnover over each of the last 3 years (or where the economic operator is a joint venture vehicle, the parties comprising the vehicle or at least one of the parties guaranteeing the performance of the vehicle must individually have a turnover of at least five times the total project cost). For the purposes of this minimum level, the total project cost for the delivery of the College facility should be assumed at GBP 41 000 000. This is a pass/fail criterion.

• 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) A check may be carried out by the contracting authority or by a competent official body of the State in which the candidate is established, to verify the technical capacity of the candidate; and if relevant, on the candidates study and research facilities and quality control measures;

  (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.

  The full conditions for participation are laid out in the PQQ and the summary above is not exhaustive.

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

  Competitive dialogue

• IV.1.2)
  Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

  Envisaged number of operators 5

  Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As outlined below and as outlined in the memorandum of information associated with this notice and available to all potential bidders via the following link or web site address: http://dataroom.gvagrimley.co.uk/SouthEssexCollegeOJEUDocuments.

  Criteria.

  — Financial & economic information, including economic and financial capacity / standing,

  — Contractual matters,

  — HR, environmental and quality issues,

  — Relevant technical experience,

  — Proven track record of delivering similar projects of the bidder and members of its consortium,

  — Project delivery team – core team,

  — Relevant partnership working experience,

  — Understanding of the financial and property challenges facing Further Education Colleges,

  — Financial information specific to the proposal in terms of credit availability, financial backers.

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

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

  Payable documents

  price 30 GBP

  Terms and method of payment: No charge for digital copies of documents downloaded through the following link or web site address: http://dataroom.gvagrimley.co.uk/SouthEssexCollegeOJEUDocuments Payment of 30 GBP required by cheque with request if for hard copies.

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

  4.10.2010 - 17:00

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

  29.11.2010

• 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

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

• VI.3)
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  (MT Ref:78461)

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

  Tel. High Court
  Strand
  WC2A 2LLLondon
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 2079476000

• VI.4.2)
  Lodging of appeals

  Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The College will observe a minimum of 10 calendar days standstill from the point at which its decision on award of the contract is communicated to unsuccessful tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the College before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional information which must then be provided no later than 3 working days before the end of the stand still period. Any request for such additional information should be addressed to the contract idenitifed at section 1.1. Aggrieved parties who are not satisfied after provision of information in accordance with the preceding paragraph and who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the Public Procurement Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) may take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly within 3 months of the alleged breach.

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

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

  24.8.2010