Tender: Banbury: glass

UK-Banbury: glass

2009/S 162-235233

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

Address: Organisation: The Waste & Resources Action Programme,

The Old Academy

, Attn: Tammy Marrett, Country code: UK-Banbury Postal code: OX16 0AH. Tel. +44 1295819900. E-mail: tammy.marrett@wrap.org.uk. Fax +44 1295819911.

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.wrap.org.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:

Body governed by public law.

Environment.

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:

Mixed Colour Cullet High Recycled Content Container.

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

Services.

Service category: No 8.

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):

The purpose of this project is follow on from WRAPs previous work on increasing the amount of glass that goes back into remelt applications in the UK. This includes, for example, guidance on collections, consumer perception work on containers made from mixed colour cullet and work on glass from Material Recovery Facilities (MRF). The aim is to work to manufacture containers with a very high recycled content using mixed colour cullet, and thus divert glass collected in a mixed colour format from landfill or aggregate applications.

In addition this project aims at understanding where market failures exist that inhibit the production of high recycled content containers from mixed colour cullet.

II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

CPV code: "Glass">14820000 .

II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

No.

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:

The scope of the research and development will include sourcing the mixed colour cullet, processing the material to sufficient quality for the remelt market, through to the manufacture of glass containers with high recycled content that are fit for purpose.

II.2.2) Options:

No.

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

Starting: 17.11.2009. Completion: 1.2.2011.

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:

N/A.

III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:

Tenders must be priced in sterling and payment will be made in sterling only.

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

Proposals will be considered from single suppliers or consortium bidders. No special legal form is required but in any collaborative bid one supplier will be deemed to be the prime contractor.

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: N/A.

III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Tenderers will need to provided last published accounts or equivalent, sufficient to enable WRAP to form a view of the Tenderer's financial status.

III.2.3) Technical capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

Description of relevant experience and qualifications of the Tenderer and the Tenderer's key personnel.

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:

Yes.

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:

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no.

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:

MSG033.

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

No.

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: 9.10.2009 - 12:30.

Payable documents: no.

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

9.10.2009 - 12:30.

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:

Date: 9.10.2009 - 12:30.

Place: WRAP Head Office, Banbury, UK.

Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.

WRAP employees or authorised representatives of WRAP.

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:

The information detailed within this notice is offered in good faith for the guidance of tenderers, but no warranty or representation is given as to the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and WRAP and its advisors shall not be under any liability for any error, misstatement or omission. No aspect of this procedure will constitute a contract or part of a contract. Tenderers participate in the process on the understanding that the procedure may not proceed for any reason.

Tenderers are asked to note that all tenders must be submitted in accordance with the requirements stipulated within WRAP's Tender Invitation Document (TID) and any tenders not submitted in accordance with the requirements of WRAP's TID will be deemed non-compliant. WRAP reserves the right not to follow up this tender in any way, and in particular not to enter into any contractual arrangement with any of the Tenderers. WRAP does not bind itself to enter into negotiations or accept any tender.

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: Appeals must be lodged within 10 days of the tender closing.

VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

21.8.2009.