Tender: Coventry: education and training services

UK-Coventry: education and training services

2008/S 238-316690

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: Kate Evans, Country code: UK-Coventry Postal code: CV1 2TE. Tel. (44) 024 76 62 79 29. E-mail: kate.evans@lsis.org.uk.

Internet address(es):

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

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.mytenders.org/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA19421.

Further information can be obtained at:

Address: Organisation: Learning and Skills Improvement Service,

Friars House, Manor House Drive

, Attn: Kate Evans, Country code: UK-Coventry Postal code: CV1 2TE. Tel. (44) 024 76 62 79 29. E-mail: kate.evans@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: Kate Evans, Country code: UK-Coventry Postal code: CV1 2TE. Tel. (44) 024 76 62 79 29. E-mail: kate.evans@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: Kate Evans, Country code: UK-Coventry Postal code: CV1 2TE. Tel. (44) 024 76 62 79 29. E-mail: kate.evans@lsis.org.uk. URL: www.lsis.org.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:

14-19 Workforce Support Programme-Diplomas, Foundation Learning Tier and General Qualifications.

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) is seeking expressions of interest from potential contractors to provide training and support to ensure that the workforce in schools and further education is ready and confident to deliver the range of new and reformed qualifications for 14-19 year olds.

The support programme will play a crucial role in developing an education system that can offer all young people the choice of a qualifications pathway that suits their needs and helps them to progress onto further learning, higher education and employment.

We are looking for experienced contractors who will be able to deliver a dynamic and high quality support programme and can demonstrate an approach that:

— Is flexible and responsive to the different roles and levels of workforce understanding, knowledge and experience,

— Makes coherent links to support offered by other professional development partners,

— Builds on the existing Diploma Support Programme but provides new practice to meet the latest support priorities.

In addition, the prospective contractor(s) must be able to demonstrate:

— Experience of delivering similar services across a range of providers in the education sector,

— The capacity to provide the service within the timescale and at the required level of quality, applying rigorous project management processes,

— Innovative practice and approaches to build on and add value to the existing Diploma Support Programme.

Please note: we envisage that the contract will be awarded from 1.5.2009 for 12 months initially with options to extend for up to a further 24 months.

Further information is available on the LSIS website at: www.lsis.org.uk/Opportunities/Tenders.aspx, Deadline: 16.1.2009.

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:

Yes.

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

Estimated value excluding VAT:

Range: between 17 000 000 and 22 000 000 GBP.

II.2.2) Options:

Yes.

Description of these options: We envisage that the contract will be awarded for 12 months initially from 1.5.2009, with ‘options to extend' for up to a further 24 months.

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

Duration in months: 12 (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:

No.

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.

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 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.

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.

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:

T102.

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:

2.2.2009.

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:

Date: 19.1.2009 - 09:00.

Place: LSIS, Coventry.

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:

Further information is available on the LSIS website at http://www.lsis.org.uk/Opportunities/Tenders.aspx, (MT Ref:60253).

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:

4.12.2008.