UK-London: research and development services and related consultancy services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

LONDINO

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:121304-2008

Publication Date:

May 8, 2008

Deadline:

Jun 12, 2008

Buyer:

SPORT ENGLAND

Original Language:

English

Address:

SPORT ENGLAND
LONDON
United Kingdom

Web Site:

www.sportengland.org

73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

Notice Type: 2220
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 89/2008
, #
121304-2008
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): Sport England, 3rd Floor,
Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, Contact: Sandra Smith, Attn: Sandra
Smith, UK-London WC1B 4SE. Tel. 020 72 73 19 43. E-mail:
sandra.smith@sportengland.org. Fax 020 73 83 57 40.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.sportengland.org.
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.
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-London: extending activities focused evaluation.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 11.
Main place of performance: This is an England wide project commissioned by
Sport England Support Centre who are based at.
3rd Floor
Victoria House
Bloomsbury Square
London
WC1B 4SE.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Sport England
is commissioning a 'Focused Evaluation' of one of its workstrands entitled
'Extending Activities'.
Extending Activities will provide a range of attractive and sustainable
sporting opportunities for children and young people aged 5 - 19 years to
take part in during term time.
It is currently being delivered via 49 County Sports Partnerships (CSPs)
which are a partnership of agencies at English county level committed to
providing a high quality community sport system. In delivering the
Extending Activities workstrand CSPs work in close partnership with School
Sport Partnerships (groups of schools working together to develop PE and
sport opportunities for all young people).
A pilot phase for Extending Activities was launched in April 2008 with 12
CSPs prior to a national roll out across the remaining 37 in September
2008.
Extending Activities aims to get 900 000 Children and Young People taking
part in attractive and sustainable sporting activities over the delivery
period 2008 to 2011.
(Common Procurement Vocabulary code description:
Research and development services and related consultancy services.).
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 73000000.
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: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The purpose of this 'Focused Evaluation'
is to provide insight and learning on the impact of the Extending
Activities workstrand by conducting in-depth research in a sample of
County Sports Partnerships (CSPs). This contract will build on the
evidence and learning from the evaluation of the first 6 months
implementation of the workstrand which is considered the pilot phase. The
pilot phase is being delivered by 12 CSPs from across England and began on
April 1. With this 'Focused Evaluation' contract Sport England anticipate
achieving the following objectives: 1) to provide a monitoring mechanism
that captures 'real time' information from projects on self-evaluated
successes and experiences in formats that can be easily accessed and
reported; 2) to deliver high quality evidence of both process and outcomes
and the linkages between them to identify what is most likely to work,
how, in what context and for whom; 3) to communicate the evidence in a
timely fashion and in ways that will: a) optimise its influence on policy
and practice in the workstrand and more widely in the sport sector; b)
support Sport England's reporting to government departments; and c)
provide accessible information to support advocacy and public relations
requirements; 4) to learn from the evaluation process itself in order to
both refine and develop the evaluation of Extending Activities as it
matures and to apply what we learn into the design and development of
Sport England's wider evaluation framework.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 260 000 GBP.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 39 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Sport England shall
pay all sums as are due by the end of the month following the month in
which the invoice is received by Sport England.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: A consortium must form a legal entity
before entering into contract or each member must be jointly and severally
liable.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
Sport England's Terms of Trade.
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.
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: (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;
(k) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions
and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the
contracting authority so requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official
quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting
the conformity of products clearly identified by references to
specifications or standards.
Suppliers expressing an interest in the requirement shall be issued a
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire to complete in full.
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: Objective criteria for choosing the limited
number of candidates: Personal situation of economic operators; Economic
and Financial capacity; Technical capacity.
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:
Reference number SE1065SC shall be quoted on all correspondence with Sport
England in relation to this requirement.
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:
12.6.2008 - 17:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 10.7.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 15.8.2008 - 13:00.
Place: 3rd Floor, Victoria House
Bloomsbury Square
London
WC1B 4SE
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no.
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: GO reference: GO 08050637/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Office of Government
Commerce, Rosebery Court, St. Andrews Business Park, UK-Norwich NR7 0HS.
E-mail: servicedesk@ogc.gsi.gov.uk. Tel. (44) 84 50 00 49 99. URL:
www.ogc.gov.uk.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 6.5.2008.

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