Tender: Coventry: education and training services

UK-Coventry: education and training services

2008/S 236-313914

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

Address: Organisation: Learning and Skills Improvement Service,

Friars House, Manor House Drive

, Attn: Emma Williams, Country code: UK-Coventry Postal code: CV1 2TE. Tel. 024 76 62 79 28. E-mail: emma.williams@lsis.org.uk.

Internet address(es):

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.mytenders.org/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA7961.

Further information can be obtained at:

Address: Organisation: Learning and Skills Improvement Service,

Friars House, Manor House Drive

, Attn: Emma Williams, Country code: UK-Coventry Postal code: CV1 2TE. Tel. 024 76 62 79 28. E-mail: emma.williams@lsis.org.uk. URL: www.lsis.org.uk.

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:

Address: Organisation: Learning and Skills Improvement Service,

Friars House, Manor House Drive

, Attn: Emma Williams, Country code: UK-Coventry Postal code: CV1 2TE. Tel. 024 76 62 79 28. E-mail: emma.williams@lsis.org.uk. URL: www.lsis.org.uk.

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:

Address: Organisation: Learning and Skills Improvement Service,

Friars House, Manor House Drive

, Attn: Emma Williams, Country code: UK-Coventry Postal code: CV1 2TE. Tel. 024 76 62 79 28. E-mail: emma.williams@lsis.org.uk. URL: www.lsis.org.uk.

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

National or federal agency/office.

Education.

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

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

Skills for Life Support Programme.

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

Services.

Service category: No 24.

Main place of performance: England.

NUTS code: Location: "UNITED KINGDOM">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):

The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) came into operation on 1 October 2008 as the new-sector led improvement body for the further education (FE) system in England. It was formed from the transfer of the businesses of the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) and the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL). LSIS's role is to work with the sector to support quality improvement, raise standards, and develop staff and leaders.

Please visit http://www.lsis.org.uk/LSISHome.aspx for more information.

LSIS is seeking expressions of interest for a contractor or consortium to deliver a national Skills for Life Support Programme. The successful contractor or consortium will help providers develop a whole organisation approach to Skills for Life to enable learners to succeed, gain qualifications and progress with learning throughout life and work.

The programme will need to engage providers across a range of settings to include family learning, offender learning, adult and community learning, voluntary and community sector organisations, work based learning providers as well as FE colleges.

We envisage that the contract will be awarded for 14 months initially, with options to extend for up to a further 24 months.

Further information is available on the LSIS website at:

http://www.lsis.org.uk/Opportunities/Tenders.aspx

Deadline: 16 January 2009.

II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

CPV code: "Education and training services">80000000 .

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:
II.2.2) Options:

No.

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

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:
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:
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity:
III.2.3) Technical capacity:
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:

Yes.

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:

T104.

IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

16.1.2009 - 17:00.

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

4.2.2009.

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:60136).

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:

2.12.2008.