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Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   WAKEFIELD
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:115327-2009
Publication Date:   Apr 25, 2009
Deadline:   May 8, 2009
Buyer:   OUTWOOD ACADEMY (WAKEFIELD) AND WOODLANDS ACADEMY (DONCASTER)
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   OUTWOOD ACADEMY (WAKEFIELD) AND WOODLANDS ACADEMY (DONCASTER)
WAKEFIELD
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.echarris.com

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Notice Type: 2120 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 80/2009, #115327-2009
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Supplies
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Outwood Academy (Wakefield)
and Woodlands Academy (Doncaster), Outwood Grange College Potovens Lane
Outwood, Contact: Lisa Lewis, UK-Wakefield WF1 2PF. Tel. +44 1924303815.
E-mail: lisal@outwoodgrange.wakefield.sch.co.uk. Fax +44 9124303820.
Further information can be obtained at: EC Harris LLP, 1 Park Lane, Attn:
Mr Miles Martin, UK-Leeds LS3 1EP. Tel. +44 1132430624. E-mail:
miles.martin@echarris.com. Fax +44 1132432431. URL: www.echarris.com.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
EC Harris LLP, 1 Park Lane, Attn: Mr Miles Martin, UK-Leeds LS3 1EP. Tel.
+44 1132430624. E-mail: miles.martin@echarris.com. Fax +44 1132432431.
URL: www.echarris.com.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: EC Harris LLP, 1 Park
Lane, Attn: Mr Miles Martin, UK-Leeds LS3 1EP. Tel. +44 1132430624.
E-mail: miles.martin@echarris.com. Fax +44 1132432431. URL:
www.echarris.com.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Body governed by public law.
Education.
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:
Supply of School Uniforms for Outwood Academy (Wakefield) and Woodlands
Academy (Doncaster).
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Supplies.
Purchase.
Main place of delivery: Wakefield and Doncaster.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The supply of
school uniforms for both boys and girls inclusive of PE kit for 11 - 16
year olds and for sixth form pupils.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 18000000, 18423000,
18332000, 18333000, 18235000, 18234000, 18232000, 18233000, 18412100,
18422000.
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 full cost for the supply of all
school uniforms and PE kit for the 2 stated Academies satisfying the
required quality (all as will be detailed in the Tender Documents).
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 180 000 and 250 000 GBP.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Completion:
17.8.2009.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: Deposits, guarantees or bonds
required by the Contracting Authority will be set out in the Tender
Documents.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: All applicable terms
concerning financing and payments will be set out in the Tender Documents.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Each member to sign an undertaking to
be jointly and severally liable for the due performance of the Contract
(if applicable).
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: The
participant shall issue the following in support of its submission for
analysis:(a) principal areas of business activity;
(b) details of organisations Health & Safety At Work Policy with details
of any pending civil, stautory or individual tribunals;
(c) details to which professional or trade bodies to which your
organisation belong;
(d) details of your organisations insurance protection in respect of third
party liability.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) 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;
(b) 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 3 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: Any organisation
tendering for this post will have to produce evidence of economic
viability. The Client may run a Dun and Bradstreet enquiry to confirm any
data provided.
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 5 years accompanied by certificates of satisfactory
execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate
the value, date and client references for the works and shall specify
whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and
properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent contracting 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 3 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;
(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 (if applicable);
(e) where the products to be supplied are of substantial quantity, a check
carried out by the contracting authority or an appointed person on its
behalf, on the production capacities of the supplier and the quality
control measures it will operate;
(f) a statement of the average annual manpower of the supplier and the
number of managerial staff for the last 3 years;
(g) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to
the suplier for carrying out the contract;
(h) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the supplier
intends possibly to sub-contract;
(i) with regard to the products to be supplied, provide, when requested,
samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must
be certified if the contracting authority so requests; and provide
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.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: (a) 3 customer references
should be provided when responding to the tender package;
(b) All products must be CE marked.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: 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: 3. Maximum number: 6
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Expertise and Experience to deliver the project - 40 % (Demonstration of
evidence that the supplier has performed similar projects under similar
timescales effectively in the past. Demonstration of experience of
knowledge and having a project team ready and capable of delivering the
project).
Quality Management - 40 % (Evidence that the company has an excellent
quality management process and capable of delivering a quality product.
Demonstration of engagement with the client in order to meet their
specifications (in terms of the required quality)).
Financial Standing - 20 % (supplier to be of a size capable of meeting the
size of this order. Supplier to provide details of audited accounts and
provide range of orders being carried out on a regular basis effectively
or what the biggest order the supplier has carried out).
With all the above, the participants must score a minimum of 75 % under
each heading to be considered for inclusion on the tender list.
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: Time limit for receipt of requests for documents
or for accessing documents: 7.5.2009 - 13:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
8.5.2009 - 13:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 13.5.2009.
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.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: EC Harris LLP (c/o Miles
Martin), 1 Park Lane, UK-Leeds LS3 1EP. E-mail: miles.martin@echarris.com.
Tel. +44 1132430624. URL: www.echarris.com. Fax +44 1132432431.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 23.4.2009.
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