Tender: Leeds: training services

UK-Leeds: training services

2008/S 236-313774

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

Address: Organisation: Home Group Limited,

c/o Stonham, Meridian House, Artist St, Armley Rd

, Attn: Dave Coope, Country code: UK-Leeds Postal code: LS12 2EW. Tel. 011 33 80 48 33. E-mail: david.coope@homegroup.org.uk.

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.homegroup.org.uk.

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.mytenders.org/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0605.

Further information can be obtained at:

Address: Organisation: Home Group Limited,

c/o Stonham, Meridian House, Artist St, Armley Rd

, Attn: Dave Coope, Country code: UK-Leeds Postal code: LS12 2EW. Tel. 011 33 80 48 33. E-mail: david.coope@homegroup.org.uk.

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

Address: Organisation: Home Group Limited,

c/o Stonham, Meridian House, Artist St, Armley Rd

, Attn: Dave Coope, Country code: UK-Leeds Postal code: LS12 2EW. Tel. 011 33 80 48 33. E-mail: david.coope@homegroup.org.uk.

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:

Address: Organisation: Home Group Limited,

c/o Stonham, Meridian House, Artist St, Armley Rd

, Attn: Dave Coope, Country code: UK-Leeds Postal code: LS12 2EW. Tel. 011 33 80 48 33. E-mail: david.coope@homegroup.org.uk.

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

Other: Charity.

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:

IT Desktop and IBS training - Home Group.

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

Services.

Service category: No 7.

Main place of performance: UK.

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):

This contract in a national contract to cover the supply of IT Windows desk-top training and IBS Open Housing Module training. However, prospective tenderers can tender for either or both of these elements. Prospective suppliers for Desk top training will need to have access to their own training facilities, which will be used as well as Home Group's own IT training suites. Prospective suppliers of desktop training will also need to provide public scheduled courses in Windows training for when numbers of trainees do not necessitate an organised course.

II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

CPV code: "Training services">80500000 .

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:

Approx. annual value of IT Desktop training is GBP 25 000 per year. Approx value of IBS Open Housing training is GBP 20 000 per year.

Likely contract period will be 4 years.

II.2.2) Options:

No.

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

Duration in months: 48 (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:
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject:

Yes.

Prospective tenders for IT Desktop training must have the capability to support training needs across the whole of England and Scotland. Prospective tenderers for IBS Open Door training must have the ability to support the whole of England.

Prospective suppliers will be expected to demonstrate experience of working within either social or supported housing environments.

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:

SECTION IV: PROCEDURE

IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure:

Open.

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:

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 or descriptive document:

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 2.1.2009.

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

16.1.2009 - 12:00.

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:
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Expressions of interest can only be accepted via email.

(MT Ref:60155).

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:

1.12.2008.