UK-Thurso: electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

THURSO

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:247421-2008

Publication Date:

Nov 11, 2008

Deadline:

Oct 27, 2008

Buyer:

DOUNREAY SITE RESTORATION LIMITED, CAITHNESS

Original Language:

English

Address:

DOUNREAY SITE RESTORATION LIMITED, CAITHNESS
THURSO , Caithness & Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty
United Kingdom

Web Site:

www.dounreay.com

Notice Type: 2120
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 187/2008
, #
247421-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Supplies
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Dounreay Site Restoration
Limited, Caithness, D2003, Dounreay, Contact: Contract Officer, Attn:
Abigail Park, UK-Thurso KW14 7TZ. Tel. 018 47 80 31 52. E-mail:
abigail.park@dounreay.com. Fax 018 47 80 25 21.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.dounreay.com.
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.
Other: Nuclear Decommissioning.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: yes.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Detailed Design and Manufacture of a Prototype Remote Powered Manipulator.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Supplies.
Purchase.
Main place of delivery: Dounreay Site.
NUTS code: UKM61.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The scope of
the contract involves the detailed design, manufacture and delivery of a
prototype remote powered manipulator appropriate for a nuclear licensed
site undergoing decommissioning.
The design will be based upon an output specification generated as part of
a strategic review currently being undertaken. The output specification
will focus on advanced manipulator technology that addresses the full
scope of all Dounreay site requirements for decommissioning and waste
handling. It will be coupled with basic design drawings for a modular,
re-configurable manipulator.
The output specification will utilise a common design, whilst focusing on
the following: Scalability; Manipulator Requirements (i.e. power
requirements, reach, payload, range of motion, size and tooling);
Actuation Strategy; Controls Strategy; Required End Tools (i.e. cutting,
decontamination, speciality); Remote Tool Changing; Interchangeable Parts;
Optimisation by re-use across Projects; Generic Operations, Procedures;
Platforms, Mounting and Utilities; Requirement for design verification:
calculation packages for each joint, including FEA results in areas of
high stress; Defined documentation requirements: Bill of Materials, Full
manufactured design drawings formatted in the Dounreay drawing
specification, including assembly explosions for each joint, flow
diagrams, circuit and power diagrams, full operating instructions, fully
detailed disassembly and repair manual, equipment recovery procedures in
the event of failure; Budget estimates for the manufacture and annual
maintenance and running costs; Defined testing requirements: proposed
design of experiments for recommended test matrix.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 31000000, 42418500,
71334000, 71320000.
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:
II.2.2) Options: No.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: The pre-qualification
questionnaire and rules, which are available from the UKAEA website
www.ukaea.org.uk/contractors.html will provide details.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: The
pre-qualification questionnaire and rules, which are available from the
UKAEA website www.ukaea.org.uk/contractors.html will provide details.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: The pre-qualification questionnaire
and rules, which are available from the UKAEA website
www.ukaea.org.uk/contractors.html will provide details.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
The pre-qualification questionnaire and rules, which are available from
the UKAEA website www.ukaea.org.uk/contractors.html will provide details.
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: Please
provide brief details of any personnel with powers of representation,
decision or control, who have any unspent convictions relating to any of
the offences listed under regulations 23(1) of the Public Contracts
Regulations 2006 or the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (i) The most recent
audited accounts that cover the last two years of trading, or for the
period that is available if trading for less than two years;
(ii) A statement of the organisation's turnover, Profit & Loss for the
most recent full year of trading (or part year if full year not
applicable) and an end period balance sheet, where this information is not
available in an audited form at (i);
(iii) Where (ii) cannot be provided, a statement of the organisation's
cash flow forecast for the current year and a bank letter outlining the
current cash and credit facility position;
(iv) If applicable, the above financial information (i to iii) must also
be provided in respect of the organisation's ultimate parent company.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: The pre-qualification questionnaire
and rules, which are available from the UKAEA website
www.ukaea.org.uk/contractors.html , will provide details.
OPTIONS.
A description of measures for ensuring quality control including reference
to any independent certificated audit standard achieved e.g. ISO 9001.
A statement of health and safety policy or policy document including
specific goals and requirements for health and safety.
A copy of the companys environmental policy or statement committing the
company to a programme of improvement in its environmental impact. Please
provide details of any Independent environmental management certification
e.g. ISO 14001.
The relevant experience and the track record of the organisation in
designing and delivering engineering projects or works comprising
mechanical, electrical, control and instrumentation in the robotic
manipulator field as applied to a regulated site environment, e.g.
nuclear, defence, chemical, pharmaceutical or oil and gas.
Details of any recent projects, similar in nature, involving methods,
including contacts for references which may be taken up without further
reference to the applicant.
The educational and professional qualifications of the 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.
DSRL may wish to inspect examples of similar equipment manufactured by the
Contractor as part of the pre-qualification process.
An indication of the proportion of the contract which the provider intends
to subcontract.
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 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Candidates will be assessed on the information provided in III.2.3 above.
If more than the required number of candidates meet the conditions for
participation, the qualified candidates will be ranked and the top ranked
candidates will be invited to tender.
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.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
27.10.2008 - 14:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 3.11.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Persons authorised to be present
at the opening of tenders: yes.
DSRL Tender Board Chairperson and Secretary.
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: Security - Tenderers should note that
aspects of this procurement will be subject to United Kingdom security
requirements. The procurement is therefore exempt from the EU Procurement
Directives and DSRL is not legally obliged to follow the process set out
in them. DSRL reserves the right voluntarily to conduct the procurement
process along the lines of the procedures of the Directives and subject to
any divergences from those procedures that appear to DSRL to be
appropriate in all circumstances. Only: organisations that are able to
comply with United Kingdom security requirements will be considered.
Documents - All documents must be in English or with an English
translation.
Payment - All documents to be priced in GBP and all payments will be made
in GBP.
Cost of Tendering - The Contracting Authority (DSRL) reserves the right
not to award a contract. The cost of tendering shall be the responsibility
of tenderers.
English Law - The contract shall be considered as a contract made in
England and shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the
provisions of English Law.
Annul - DSRL reserve the right to annul the tendering process and not
award a contract.
Sub-Contract - DSRL work within strict safety guidelines and you will be
required to specify and justify any proposals to subcontract.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: DSRL 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 a contract
is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of
the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information
has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the
standstill period. Such additional information should be sought from the
contact named in this notice.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully
resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 no 5, which apply to
England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Public Contracts (Scotland)
Regulations 2006 no 1, which apply to Scotland, 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 sheriff court, the Court of Session,
(Scotland) or in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the High Court.
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: 24.9.2008.

Update: Nov 11, 2008

Notice Type: 8098
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Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 219/2008
, #
291193-2008
Referenced Document Number: 247421-2008
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, Caithness, D2003, Dounreay, attn:
Abigail Park, UK-KW14 7TZ Thurso. Tel. 018 47 80 31 52. E-mail:
abigail.park@dounreay.com. Fax 018 47 80 25 21.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 26.09.2008,
2008/S 187-247421)
RE: CPV: 31000000, 42418500, 71334000, 71320000.
Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables;
lighting.Incomplete procedureOther additional information:
Our business requirements have changed and therefore we no longer require
this supply at this time. This requirement may be re-advertised in the
future.

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