UK-Paignton: canteen and catering services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

PAIGNTON

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:146604-2008

Publication Date:

Jun 6, 2008

Deadline:

Jul 7, 2008

Buyer:

TORBAY COUNCIL

Original Language:

English

Address:

TORBAY COUNCIL
PAIGNTON
United Kingdom

Web Site:

www.torbay.gov.uk

Notice Type: 2220
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 109/2008
, #
146604-2008
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): Torbay Council, Children's
Services, Oldway, Contact: Assistant Director Resources, Attn: Matthew
Redwood, UK-Paignton TQ3 2TE. Tel. 018 03 20 82 38. E-mail:
matthew.redwood@torbay.gov.uk. Fax 018 03 20 89 76.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.torbay.gov.uk.
Further information can be obtained at: Matthew Merritt-Harrison,
Merritt-Harrison Catering Consultancy, PO Box 309, Attn: Matthew
Merritt-Harrison, UK-Guildford GU1 1WS. Tel. 014 83 53 39 62. E-mail:
admin@merritt-harrison.com. Fax 014 83 45 12 57.
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:
Regional or local authority.
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-Torbay: provision of school meals in Torbay.
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: Torbay Council is responsible for 42 schools
providing Primary, Special and Secondary levels of education in Torquay,
Paignton and Brixham. There is also one pupil referral unit.
Initial responses by primary and special school governing bodies indicate
that the school catering contract will cover the following:
1 Special School
9 Primary Schools cooking and serving traditional meals
4 Primary Schools cooking and serving traditional meals and producing
meals for dining centres
7 Dining Centres
The final number of schools to be covered by the contract will be known
early in July. Any variation to the above details will be posted on the
Devontenders website.
The selected Contractor must be able to operate a catering service across
the authority.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Torbay Council
is seeking a Contractor to deliver a high quality school catering service,
which will deliver best value for community taxpayers, schools, parents
and pupils using the service.
The selected Contractor must operate a catering service which provides a
choice of beverages and nutritionally balanced, healthy meals and snacks,
fully complying with all relevant food safety regulations and the
Statutory National Nutritional Standards which reflect the cultural and
medical dietary needs of the customers.
Catering services. School catering services.Canteen and catering
services.Catering services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 55500000, 55520000,
55524000.
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.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Starting:
6.4.2009.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: As stated in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation to tender ITT).
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: As stated in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation to tender(ITT).
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: As stated in the Pre-Qualification
Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation to tender(ITT).
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.
As stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation
to tender (ITT).
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.
As stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation
to tender ITT).
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As stated in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation to tender(ITT).
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.
As stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation
to tender (ITT).
As stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation
to tender (ITT).
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As stated in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation to tender (ITT).
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.
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: 4. Maximum number: 6
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As
stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ)and the Invitation to
tender (ITT).
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:
TO6908CS - Provision of School Meals in Torbay.
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:
7.7.2008 - 12:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 22.8.2008.
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: 22.8.2008 - 15:00.
Place: Democrative Services, Town Hall, Torbay Council.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
By Democrative Services as per Torbay Council's Financial Regulations and
Contract Standing Orders.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Applicants will be required to register
their "Expression of Interest" on Torbay Council's electronic tendering
system (www.devontenders.gov.uk) as indicated in II.1.5 by the time/date
indicated in IV.3.4. PQQs will be released to all those expressing and
interest on 7.7.2008 via the devontenders portal.
Applicants must go to on www.devontenders.gov.uk to register your interest
against the specific opportunity as stated on this Contract Notice. The
procurement exercise is completely managed via this electronic system and
only registering on www.devontenders.gov.uk will ensure that you receive
all the relevant information and follow-up documentation.
GO reference: GO 08060410/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Torbay Council, Law and
Support, Town Hall, UK-Torquay TQ1 3DR. E-mail: Bill.Norman@torbay.gov.uk.
Tel. 018 03 20 71 40. URL: www.torbay.gov.uk. Fax 018 03 20 74 92.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 4.6.2008.

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