UK-Warrington: environmental services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

WARRINGTON

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:173564-2008

Publication Date:

Jul 8, 2008

Deadline:

Aug 4, 2008

Buyer:

THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

Original Language:

English

Address:

THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
WARRINGTON , NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)
United Kingdom

Web Site:

www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Notice Type: 2220
-
Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 130/2008
, #
173564-2008
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): The Environment Agency,
Richard Fairclough House, Knutsford Road, Contact: North West Procurement,
Attn: Louise Kinder, UK-Warrington WA4 1HT. Tel. (44) 19 25 54 23 01.
E-mail: louise.kinder@environment-agency.gov.uk. Fax (44) 19 25 24 05 03.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
www.environment-agency.gov.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:
National or federal agency/office.
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:
21962: Framework agreement for radiological assessment services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 12.
Main place of performance: Mainly in North West England, although the
service may be required any where in the United Kingdom.
NUTS code: UKD.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with
several operators.
Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 5.
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement:
Estimated value excluding VAT: 250 000 GBP.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Under the
framework the Contractor shall be required to undertake radiological
assessments related to exposure of the public and wildlife. This will
support the Environment Agency regulation of the authorised discharges and
disposals of radioactive wastes. There may also be a need to conduct
relevant research and development work in support of our radiological
assessment approaches.
For a Contractor to be included on the framework, they must have
experience of undertaking radiological assessments of exposure of the
public or wildlife from future and past discharges of radioactivity to the
environment. Potential contractors will be required to use suitable
environmental models and assessment methods and be able to develop these
if required. The Contractor will be required to produce or contribute to
the production of technical reports describing the results of such
assessments and development activities.
Typically the work may involve predicting the dispersion of radionuclides
in the environment from authorised discharges to atmosphere or as liquids
or particles, modelling external doses and effective doses from intakes of
radionuclides and assessing total dose to the public (mainly, but not
exclusively, as a result of discharges from nuclear sites). Additional
consultant support may be required related to protection of the
environment and exposure of wildlife and other technical issues related to
discharges of radioactivity.
The nature of the programme is inherently unpredictable and as such the
Contractor shall on occasion have to respond at short notice.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 90310000, 73200000,
74231721.
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.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: Initial 3 year agreement with options to
exten for up to a further 12 months.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 48 (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 performance bond and/or
parent company guarentee may be required as a condition of the award of a
framework.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Each economic operator to be jointly
and severally liable for the performance of the contract. In the case of
bids being received from a group or consortium of suppliers, tenderers
will be required to nominate a lead contractor as a condition of award.
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: Evidence of
Economic and Financial standing and Technical Competence will be required,
each applicant will be sent a 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:
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 number of operators 8.
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:
21962.
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:
4.8.2008 - 16:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 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: The Environment Agency reserves the right
to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include
the right not to award the contract, and does not bind itself to accept
the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award
the contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this
necessary.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Body responsible for
mediation procedures:
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: The Environment Agency 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 2 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 point 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 settling 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.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained:
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 3.7.2008.

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