UK-Manchester: arts-facility operation services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

MANTSESTER

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:118978-2008

Publication Date:

May 6, 2008

Deadline:

Jul 15, 2008

Buyer:

MANCHESTER CONCERT HALL LIMITED

Original Language:

English

Address:

MANCHESTER CONCERT HALL LIMITED
MANCHESTER , Greater Manchester
United Kingdom

Email:

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Notice Type: 2220
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 87/2008
, #
118978-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Manchester Concert Hall
Limited, Cultural Strategy, Manchester City Council, 9th Floor, Town Hall
Extension, Attn: Dominique Whittington, UK-Manchester M60 2LA. Tel. (44)
016 12 34 42 57. E-mail: d.whittington@manchester.gov.uk. Fax (44) 016 12
34 42 02.
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:
Other: Company and Charity.
Recreation, culture and religion.
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-Manchester: bridgewater hall operating contract.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 26.
Main place of performance: The City of Manchester UK Greater Manchester.
NUTS code: UKD3.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Manchester
Concert Hall Limited wish to appoint a service provider for the operation
of the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester for a period of ten (10) years from
the 1st January 2010 Arts-facility operation services. Recreational,
cultural and sporting services. Administrative services for business
operations. Facilities management services. Facilities management
services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 92320000, 92000000,
75112000, 74873100, 74873100.
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: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The successful candidate will be
required to meet all the Contracting Authority's requirements.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 120 (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: A parent company guarantee
and/or performance bond may be required.
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 May 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.
Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the
financial system for the purpose of money laundering.The selection
criteria of general eligibility, technical capability/suitability and
financial standing will be assessed by reference to a Pre-qualification
questionnaire which can be obtained from the person and address referred
to in section I.1 above. Completed questionnaires ( 7 hard copies and 3 CD
rom copies) must be returned to the person and address referred to in l.1
above, Dominique Whittington Cultural Strategy, Manchester City Council,
9th Floor, Town Hall Extension, Manchester, M60 2LA, by 15 July
2008.Pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 as specified in the
pre-qualification questionnaire.
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.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Pursuant to the Public
Contracts Regulations 2006 as specified in the pre-qualification
questionnaire.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: (a) a list of the works carried out
over the past five years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory
execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate
the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were
carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed.
Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates
to the contracting authority direct;
(b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services
provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients,
whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services
provided shall be given: - where the recipient was a contracting
authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the
competent authority, - where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the
purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the
economic operator;
(c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether
or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking,
especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of
public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order
to carry out the work;
(d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the
supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's
study and research facilities;
(e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or,
exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by
the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official
body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is
established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production
capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service
provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are
available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;
(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;
(g) for public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in
appropriate cases, an indication of the environmental management measures
that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the
contract;
(h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or
contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years;
(i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to
the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;
(j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services
provider intends possibly to subcontract;
Pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 as specified in the
pre-qualification questionnaire.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Pursuant to the Public
Contracts Regulations 2006 as specified in the pre-qualification
questionnaire.
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: Restricted.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged minimum number: 5. Maximum number: 8
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As
specified in the pre-qualification questionnaire.
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.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive documentPayable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
15.7.2008 - 16:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 1.11.2008.
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: Overview of Contract
Manchester Concert Hall Limited (MCHL) wish to appoint a service provider
for the operation of the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. The operating
contract is anticipated to commence on the 1st January 2010 for a ten-year
period. MCHL is a charitable company limited by guarantee and Manchester
City Council is a member of the company. MCHL was set up in 1994 to manage
the operation of the Bridgewater Hall. and is the lessee of the
Bridgewater Hall under a 35-year lease granted in 1996 by the Council. The
Bridgewater Hall opened in September 1996 and is a prestige music venue
and key iconic building in Manchester. The Hall was built as an
international venue and is the home of the internationally acclaimed Halle
orchestra. The Halle Orchestra have a sublease of part of the premises.
The Bridgewater Hall currently stages 276 performances per year and
creates on average 367,000-ticketed attendances per year attracting
500,000 customers per year. The operation of the Hall involves working
closely with the resident orchestras and other musical organisations to
deliver a world-class cultural programme comprising of classical and
non-classical performances from the field of music, with a market appeal
that transcends socio-economic barriers. The operating contract will
include programming of classical and non-classical music performances
including international season together with marketing and procurement of
sponsorship, promotion of the Bridgewater Hall as an internationally
acclaimed concert hall, provision and management of box office and web
based ticket sales, provision of education programme, provision of bars
and catering and conference facilities, facilities management including
day-to-day repairs and maintenance and housekeeping of the Bridgewater
Hall and other ancillary activities.
There are currently approx 50 full time and 60 part time staff engaged by
the current operator in the operation of the Hall, and the MCHL is of the
opinion that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
Regulations 2006 will apply to this contract. Tenderers must note that the
successful service provider will take the commercial risk in respect of
the operation of the Hall and it is anticipated no revenue funding will be
provided by MCHL in respect of the operating contract.
Interested parties must submit a pre-qualification questionnaire by way of
expression of interest. The pre-qualification questionnaire is available
from the person and address in section I.1 and 7 hard copies and 3 CD ROM
copies of the completed questionnaire and accompanying information must be
returned to the person and address referred to in section (Dominique
Whittington Cultural Strategy, Manchester City Council, 9th Floor, Town
Hall Extension, Manchester, M60 2LA) by the date specified in IV.3.4.
MCHL reserves the right not to award any contract as a result of the
procurement process initiated by this notice and will not be liable for
any costs incurred by candidates. MCHL requires concise responses within
the pre-qualification questionnaire.
GO reference: GO 08050215/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: The contracting authority 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 unsuccessful
tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before
the contract is entered into. Applicants have two working days from
notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and
that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before
expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be
requested from the address in section I.1.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully
resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for
aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are 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 brought promptly (generally within 3
months). Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order
the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend
any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into
the court may only award damages.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 2.5.2008.

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