Tender: UK-Glasgow: repair and maintenance services of central heating

UK-Glasgow: repair and maintenance services of central heating

2010/S 172-263423

CONTRACT NOTICE

Supplies

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

  Attn: Tel. E-mail: North Glasgow Housing Association Ltd
  Ned Donaldson House, 50 Reidhouse Street, Springburn
  Mr Stephen Nugent
  G21 4LSGlasgow
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1415606000
  info@northglasgowha.com

  Internet address(es)

  Address of the buyer profile http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx...

  Further information can be obtained at:Attn: Tel. E-mail: Ewing Somerville Partnership Ltd.
  40 Speirs Wharf
  Ms Geraldine McCann
  G4 9THGlasgow
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1413533531
  info@ewing-somerville.com

  Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:Attn: Tel. E-mail: Ewing Somerville Partnership Ltd.
  40 Speirs Wharf
  Ms Geraldine McCann
  G4 9THGlasgow
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1413533531
  info@ewing-somerville.com

  Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:Attn: Tel. E-mail: Ewing Somerville Partnership Ltd.
  40 Speirs Wharf
  Ms Geraldine McCann
  G4 9THGlasgow
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1413533531
  info@ewing-somerville.com

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

  Body governed by public law

  Housing and community amenities

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

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

  Framework agreement for replacement domestic gas and electric heating installations.

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

  Supplies

  Purchase

  Main place of delivery Various domestic properties, North Glasgow.

  NUTS code UKM34

• II.1.3)
  The notice involves

  The establishment of a framework agreement

• II.1.4)
  Information on framework agreement

  Framework agreement with a single operator

  Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 3

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

  estimated cost excluding VAT 1 500 000 GBP

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

  This framework agreement is for the replacement of existing gas central heating and electric wet central heating installations and includes approximately 460Nr properties in North Glasgow. Applicants will be expected to have experience in carrying out replacement heating feasibility studies as part of the works. It is intended that the works will be carried out over a 3 year period, however the precise timing and phasing of the works is not yet known.

  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....

  The awarding authority has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via a 'tender submission postbox' facility. Further details of this facility are available at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/PostBox/Postbox_Explain.aspx?I....

• II.1.6)
  Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  50720000

• 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

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

  The works include approximately 460Nr domestic properties.

  Excluding VAT 1 500 000 GBP

• II.2.2)
  Options

  Yes

  description of these options: The framework agreement may be extended for a further 1 year.

  provisional timetable for recourse to these options: in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)

  Number of possible renewals 1

• 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

• III.1.3)
  Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded

  Prior to an award of contract a consortium must form a legal entity.

• III.1.4)
  Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

  Yes

  The gas central heating installation works shall only be carried out by organisations and operatives attaining Gas Safe registration.

• 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.

  Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required The Association would also advise that a turnover of 2 000 000 GBP pounds would be considered a minimum requirement for organisations replying to this pre qualification questionnaire. The Contractor will be expected to have attained this limit on each of the last 3 years.

• III.2.3)
  Technical capacity

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

  (1) 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;

  (2) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract;

  (3) A statement of the technicians or technical services available to the candidate to carry out the work under the contract; or be involved in the production of goods or the provision of services under the contract; particularly those responsible for quality control, whether or not they are independent of the candidate;

  (4) 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.

  Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required

  Contractors wishing to apply for this framework agreement must be able to provide evidence of experience in successfully working on at least 2 domestic gas central heating contracts involving at least 200 residential units in the last 3 years and at least 1 domestic electric wet central heating contract to residential units in the last 3 years. The contracts must be demonstrably similar in nature to the one described within the notice and pre qualification questionnaire. Any contracts identified by applicants must be at least 75 % complete and the Association must be able to obtain references from the respective Employers.

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

  Envisaged number of operators 5

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

  2819

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

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

  Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents 6.10.2010

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

  6.10.2010 - 12:00

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

  22.10.2010

• 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

  (SC Ref:191626)

• VI.4)
  PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

VI.4.1)
Body responsible for appeal procedures

• VI.4.2)
  Lodging of appeals

  Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: An economic operator that suffers, or risks suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/1) (as amended) may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.

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

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

  2.9.2010