UK-London: real estate services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

LONDINO

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:103102-2008

Publication Date:

Apr 18, 2008

Deadline:

May 23, 2008

Buyer:

FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH OFFICE, CPG/ESTATE CONTRACTS

Original Language:

English

Address:

FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH OFFICE, CPG/ESTATE CONTRACTS
LONDON
United Kingdom

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70000000 - Real estate services

Notice Type: 2220
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 76/2008
, #
103102-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global or partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Foreign & Commonwealth Office,
CPG/Estate Contracts, Room 1/100, Old Admiralty Building, The Mall, Attn:
Terry Wilson, UK-London SW1A 2PA. Tel. (44) 20 70 08 14 06. E-mail:
twilson@estate.fco.gov.uk. Fax (44) 20 70 08 09 70.
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: overseas property valuation services.
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: Properties are located in Americas and Asia.
Valuation reports must be delivered to the Authority's offices in London.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): To provide
property valuation services for approximately 325 FCO commercial and
residential properties (42 locations) in Americas and 600 FCO commercial
and residential properties (48 locations) in Asia.Real estate services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 70000000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: Yes.
Tenders should be submitted for: one or more lots.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 36 (from the award of the contract).
INFORMATION ABOUT LOTS
LOT NO 1
TITLE: UK-London: overseas property valuation services
1) SHORT DESCRIPTION: To provide property valuation services for
approximately 325 FCO commercial and residential properties (42 locations)
in Americas.Real estate services.
2) COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV): 70000000.
3) QUANTITY OR SCOPE: Succesful applicants will be commissioned for a
period of 3 years. A full inspection/valuation exercise for all properties
will need to commence no later than December 2008 for completion no later
than August 2009 with a valuation date of 30 June 2009. Successful
applicants may also be required to provide ad-hoc estate surveying and
valuation advice throughout the 3 year term of the commission.
4) INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR
STARTING/COMPLETION: Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the
contract).
LOT NO 2
TITLE: UK-London: overseas property valuation services
1) SHORT DESCRIPTION: To provide property valuation services for
approximately 600 FCO Commercial and residential properties (48 locations)
in Asia.Real estate services.
2) COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV): 70000000.
3) QUANTITY OR SCOPE: Succesful applicants will be commissioned for a
period of 3 years. A full inspection/valuation exercise for all properties
will need to commence no later than December 2008 for completion no later
than August 2009 with a valuation date of 30.6.2009. Successful applicants
may also be required to provide ad-hoc estate surveying and valuation
advice throughout the 3 year term of the commission.
4) INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR
STARTING/COMPLETION: Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the
contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Joint and several liability.
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: (a) is
bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by
the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where
he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation
arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;
(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an
order for compulsory winding up or administration by the court or of an
arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under
national laws and regulations;
(c) has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata
in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence
concerning his professional conduct;
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means
which the contracting authorities can demonstrate;
(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social
security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the
country in which he is established or with those of the country of the
contracting authority;
(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in
accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is
established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information
required under this Section or has not supplied such information;
(h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal
organisation, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action
98/733/JHA;
(i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in
Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council
Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;
(j) has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of
Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial
interests of the European Communities;
(k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined
in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention
of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate
statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant
professional risk indemnity insurance;
(b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the
balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under
the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
(c) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where
appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum
of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on
which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading,
as far as the information on these turnovers is available.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: (f) the educational and professional
qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the
undertaking's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or
persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;
Technical capacity - Means of proof required: a) applicants must
demonstrate previous similar experience of conducting commercial and
residentail valuations in the geographical area for which they are
applying; b) Applicants should detail the valuation methodology and
comparables used to arrive a t values; c) applicants should detail their
experience of IT systems including Autocad, Windows 2000 or Windows XP and
access/input data via Citrix servers; d) Applicants should provide details
of professional indemnity insurance held by the company including
exclusions; e) Applicants should demonstrate their quality assurance
systems including certificates of any third party accreditation.
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:
Yes.
Services to be delivered by Chartered Surveyors (or equivalent) in
accordance with the International Accounting Standard (IAS), as
interpreted by the International Valuation Standards Committee and/or
European Group of Valuers Association.
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 minimum number: 3. Maximum number: 6.
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:
Please state clearly whether you are entering an expression of interest
for either Americas (quote reference number 02808), Asia (quote reference
number 02908) or both valuation services.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive documentTime limit for receipt of requests for documents or
for accessing documents: 23.5.2008 - 11:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
23.5.2008 - 11:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 6.6.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
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 awarding authority reserves the right
to annul the tendering process and not award any contract.
GO reference: GO 08041511/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: The Foreign & Commonwealth Office will incorporate a
minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the
award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows
unsuccesful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting
authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working
days from the notification of the award decision to request additional
debriefing and that information should be required from the address listed
in I.1.3. If an appeal regarding the award of the contract has not been
succesfully resolved the Public Contract regualtions 2006 (NI 2006 No 5)
provided for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or at risk of harm by
a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and
Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brough promptly. The awarding
authority reserves the right to annul the tendering process and not to
award any contract.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 16.4.2008.

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