Tender: UK-Sheffield: administrative educational services

UK-Sheffield: administrative educational services

2010/S 172-263609

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

  Contact: Attn: Tel. E-mail: Fax Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
  2 St Paul's Place
  Aled Williams
  Aled Williams
  S1 2FJSheffield
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1142075305
  Aled.Williams@bis.gsi.gov.uk
  +44 1142075377

  Internet address(es)

  General address of the contracting authority www.bis.gov.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

  Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions

  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

  UK-London: management and administration of the matrix standard quality assurance programme.

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

  Services

  Service category: No 27

  Main place of performance United Kingdom.

  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)

  United Kingdom. The matrix standard is a national quality standard for organisations that deliver information, advice and/or guidance on learning and work. Organisations are accredited to the matrix quality standard. The Contracting Authority is seeking an organisation to ensure the effective and efficient management of the matrix Standard assessment and accreditation process; the management of the register of the independent matrix practitioners; the continuous professional development of the independent matrix practitioners; maintain the integrity of the quality mark and test and implement agreed changes from the review of the matrix Standard. Although the service that the Contracting Authority requires falls within Part B of Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 it has decided to place this advertisement in the OJEU on a voluntary basis. Administrative educational services. Career guidance services. Education and training services. Adult and other education services. Guidance services.

• II.1.6)
  Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  75121000, 85312310, 80000000, 80400000, 79634000

• 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

  The contract will be for an initial period of 3 years with an option to extend the contract up to a further 1 year to a total of 4 years. The funding from BIS will be up to 110 000 GBP in the first year of the contract. There will be no BIS funding in subsequent years. The assessment and accreditation body will also raise fees from organisations to cover the assessment and accreditations processes throughout the period of the contract. It is expected that these fees may be in excess of 1 000 000 GBP and therefore a supplier would need to demonstrate they have the experience and capacity of managing these sums.

II.2.2)
Options

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

  Duration in months: 3 (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

  Details contained within the tender documents.

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

  Where a consortium wishes to bid the Contracting Authority reserves the right to require groupings of suppliers to take a particular legal form or to require a single supplier to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and severable liability irrespective of the form the grouping takes.

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

  Yes

  Compliance with EU and UK legislation and policy objectives including in relation to health and safety, environmental considerations and equal opportunities. Appropriate professional indemnity insurance.

• 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: Requirements are in the Pre Qualification Questionnaire available from Aled Williams as per I.1 above.

• III.2.2)
  Economic and financial capacity

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Requirements are in the Pre Qualification Questionnaire available from Aled Williams as per I.1 above.

  Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

• III.2.3)
  Technical capacity

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

  Requirements are in the Pre Qualification Questionnaire available from Aled Williams as per I.1 above.

  As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

  Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required

  As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

• 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

  No

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 6

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

  4.10.2010 - 12:00

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

  15.10.2010

• 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

  Date: 24.11.2010

  Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders Yes

  By Officials of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

• VI.1)
  THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT

  No

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

  No

• VI.3)
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  GO reference: GO 10090210/01.

• 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: The Department for Business Innovation and Skills will as soon as possible after the decision has been made inform tenderers and candidates of its decision to award the contract and provide the information required by regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006. It will observe the standstill period required by regulation 32A of those Regulations. The Regulations provide that where a duty owed to economic operators is not observed by the Contracting Authority the breach is actionable in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months.

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