CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Wandsworth Borough Council on
behalf of itself and the following contracting, Children's Services
Department, BSF team, 2nd Floor Town Hall Extension, Wandsworth High
Street, Attn: Mr Bruce Glockling, UK-London SW18 2PU. Tel. +44 2088718311.
E-mail: bsfpqq@wandsworth.gov.uk. Fax +44 2088717212.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.wandsworth.gov.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/
CouncilandGovernment/Contracting/default.
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:
Regional or local authority.
General public services.
Education.
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:
UK-London: Wandsworth Building Schools for the Future.
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: Inner London - South West and Broadstairs Kent.
NUTS code: UKI11.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The contracting
authorities are seeking an innovative private sector partner or partners
to participate and invest in a new Public Private Partnership vehicle (a
"Local Education Partnership" or "LEP") to be established jointly with
some or all the contracting authorities. The LEP will provide (or arrange
for the provisions of) "Partnering Services", which will include (but not
limited to) the development of a strategic investment programme for:
(a) educational facilities: the secondary school estate, including
community facilities,
(b) may also include investment in the primary school estate and other non
housing Council capital projects, including libraries, parks and open
spaces, office accommodation and multi purpose sports facilities, and
(c) any other facilities to be provided by the Wandsworth local authority
in the exercising of the powers contained in Section 2(1) of the Local
Government Act 2000 (together with the "Relevant Facilities") in the
contracting authority's area.
These Partnering Services may also comprise of the following services:
(a) strategy advisory services,
(b) programme management services,
(c) project development services,
(d) procurement consultancy services, and
(e) procurement and delivery or management of all services required to
deliver the strategic investment programme for the Relevant Facilities
(including through the provision, integration and management of supply
chain arrangements).
It is anticipated that such services may include:
(i) architectural services,
(ii) engineering services,
(iii) construction services,
(iv) technical services,
(v) building services,
(vi) hard facilities management services,
(vii) information communication and technology ("ICT") services,
(viii) educational support services,
(ix) education programme development services,
(x) educational strategy services for a period of up to 15 years.
The Council's secondary school estate (Relevant Facilities) may be a
mixture of new build and refurbished facilities, will be delivered under
design and build arrangements. There will be no PFI within this project.
The LEP may also be required to provide for, or arrange for the provision
(through supply chain arrangements) of, the management and/or integration
of the Partnering Services, design and build and construction contracts,
facilities management services, support services and ICT services (this
list is not exhaustive) for the contracting authority's other educational
facilities (i.e. other than Relevant Facilities) including for example the
primary school estate and other Council capital projects as described
above. The LEP may also be required to provide for, or arrange for the
provision (through supply chain arrangements) of, the management and/or
integration of the Partnering Services, design and build and construction
contracts, facilities management services, support services and ICT
services (this list is not exhaustive) where the authority's existing
arrangements are either transferred or expire. Further details are
contained in the Descriptive Document and pre qualification questionnaire
(PQQ)(see section VI.3 for details of how to obtain these).
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 79400000, 45210000,
45214000, 45214200, 45214800, 45212000, 45212140, 45212200, 45212220,
45236250, 77314000, 77320000, 55524000, 98341140, 72222300, 45453100,
50700000, 92610000, 45111000, 45112711, 45215200, 45215210, 45215212,
45215213, 45215214, 45215215, 45215220, 45215221, 45215222, 71315000,
72500000, 72514300, 79710000, 75200000, 71240000, 45314000, 51610000,
71541000, 45000000, 79993000, 45215300, 45215400, 70000000, 79411000,
79418000, 79420000, 90911200, 80000000, 45212300, 45212330.
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: Yes.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The estimated capital value of the
initial projects covered by this procurement is in the region of 78 000
000 GBP. Further projects arising in the first 10 year period may result
in the total estimated capital value (including the initial projects) of
approximately 350 000 000 GBP to 400 000 000 GBP, including 350 000 000
GBP for the secondary school estate. These figures are estimates only and
may vary subject to Government spending reviews and the availability of
funding.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 78 000 000 and 400 000 000 GBP.
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: The partnering contract between the private
sector and the contracting authorities will be for a period of 10 years
with an option (exercisable during the initial 10 year term) for a further
5 years.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 180 (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: The contracting authorities
reserve the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds and other forms
of appropriate security.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See sections III.1.3
and VI.3.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: The contracting authorities are
seeking a private sector partner or partners to participate and invest in
the LEP which will take responsibility for and manage a supply chain of
providers. The contracting authorities reserve the right to require
groupings of contractors to take a particular legal form or to require a
single contractor to take primary liability or to require that each party
undertakes joint and several liability irrespective of the form of the
LEP.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
Under this project the LEP and its supply chain will be required to
actively participate in the achievement of social and/or environmental
policy objectives relating to Wandsworth's Sustainable Community Strategy,
Wandsworth Environmental Sustainable Delivery Plan, the social and
sustainability objectives contained in Wandsworth's Procurement Strategy
and Code, apprenticeships and/or work experience for Wandsworth school
students and locally resident young people. Accordingly contract
performance conditions may relate in particular to social and
environmental considerations to the extent that they relate to the subject
matter of the contracts.
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: In
accordance with Articles 45 to 50 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulations
23 to 25 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in the
pre qualification questionnaire available from the address in section I.1.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: In accordance with
Article 47 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulation 24 of the Public
Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in the pre qualification
questionnaire available from the address in section I.1.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
In accordance with Articles 48 to 50 of Directive 2004/18/EC and
Regulation 25 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in
the pre qualification questionnaire available from the address in section
I.1.
As set out in the pre qualification questionnaire.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As set out in the pre qualification 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:
Yes.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Competitive dialogue.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged number of operators 3
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Partnering experience - overall weighting is 35 %.
Design, development, operations and ICT - overall weighting is 25 %.
Financial and economic standing - overall weighting is 20 %.
Commercial matters - overall weighting is 10 %.
Quality, health and safety, environmental protection, employees and
equality in the workplace - overall weighting is 10 %.
Please also see the pre qualification questionnaire and pre qualification
questionnaire evaluation matrix available from the address set out in
Section I.1.
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 yes.
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:
SAU/CRT/2738.
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:
3.9.2009 - 17:00.
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.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: An open day was held on 29th June at The
Bank of England Sports Club, Roehampton. Wandsworth Borough Council is
acting as lead contracting authority on behalf of the following
contracting authorities (and their statutory successors and organisations
created as a result of re-organisation or organisational changes):
BSF Investments LLP 5th floor, 10 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AE;
The Governing Body of Burntwood School, Burtnwood Lane, Loondon SW17 0AQ;
The Governing Body of Southfields Community College, 333Merton Road,
London SW18 5JU;
The Governing Body of Saint John Bosco, Parkham Street, London SW11 3PB;
The Governing Body of Elliott School, Pullman Gardens, London SW15 3DG;
The Governing Body of Chestnut Grove School, 45 Chestnut Grove, London
SW12 8JZ;
The Governing Body of Battersea Park School, 401 Battersea Park Road,
London SW11 5AP;
The Governing Body of Oak Lodge School, 101 Nightingale Lane, London SW12
8NA;
The Governing Body of Graveney School, Welham Road, London SW17 9BU;
The Governing Body of Ernest Bevin School, Beechcroft Road, London SW17
7DF;
The Governing Body of Saint Cecilia's School, Sutherland Grove, London
SW18 5JR;
The Governing Body of Francis Barber Pupil Referral Unit, Franciscan Road,
London SW17 8HE;
The Governing Body of Bradstow School, Dumpton Park Road, Broadstairs,
Kent, CT10 1BY;
The Governing Body of Nightingale School, Beechcroft Road, London SW17
7DF;
The Governing Body of Garratt Park School, Waldron Road, London SW17 9BU;
The Governing Body of Paddock School, Priory Lane, London SW15 5RT;
The Governing Body of Linden Lodge School, 61 Princes Way, London SW19
6JB;
Salesians of John Bosco UK Salesian Provincial Office, Thornleigh House,
Sharples Park Bolton, B11 6PQ;
Southwark Diocesan Board, 48 Union Street, London SE1 1TD;
Archdiocese of SouthwarkCommission for Schools and Colleges, St Edwards
House, St Paul's Wood Hill, Orpington, BR5 2SR;
Primary Schools established or to be established in the London Borough of
Wandsworth.
Other bodies with responsibility for education and education facilities,
which may be established in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Learning and Skills Council.
BSF Investments LLP has been established by the Department of Education
and Skills (now Department of Children Schools and Families) and
Partnerships UK as the body, which will invest equity in the LEP.
Section I.2 - Additional types of contracting authority; national
agency/office, body governed by public law. Section II.2(c) - Additional
service categories: 7, 12, 14, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
Section II.1.9 - Variants will be accepted in addition to a compliant bid
(as set out in the tender/contract documents) providing the contracting
authorities' core requirements are met and provided that they are in
accordance with the tender/contract documents. Sections II.2.2 and II.3 -
The partnering contract between the private sector and the contracting
authorities will be for a period of 10 years commencing in February 2011,
with an option to extend for a further 5 years (such option being
exercisable during the initial 10 year term. The term of any design and
build, facilities management, management services or ICT agreements or
other agreements flowing from the partnership may extend beyond this
period.
Following introduction of the Minimum Design Standard (MDS) within the BSF
programme from 13.5.2009, the contracting authorities require that the
final designs for sample school schemes (sample school schemes being the
representative selection of the types of schools to be rebuilt or
refurbished as part of the contracting authorities BSF project) meet the
MDS. The MDS has been jointly developed by the DCSF, PfS and the
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Bidders'
designs submitted during the procurement process will be assessed by the
CABE Design Review Panel against the MDS grading criteria at the following
intervals: (i) submission of initial bids; (ii) final bids; and (iii) at
the planning application stage (when the selected bidder has been
appointed but before the planning application has been determined).
Designs which do not meet the MDS will need to be amended or developed
further until they meet the MDS "pass" or "very good" grading criteria.
PfS will not approve the selected bidder's final business case until the
MDS is achieved. Where appropriate, non-sample schemes will also be
required to meet the MDS as part of the process for approving and
developing new projects. Further information on the MDS grading criteria
and MDS generally can be found at www.cabe.org.uk . Further information is
also available within the Descriptive Document and Invitation to
Participate in Dialogue.
Section IV.3.3 - The PQQ and Descriptive Document are available upon
request from the address specified in section I.1 (portal) from the date
of despatch of this notice to 28.8.2009. The e-box extranet portal will be
used through the procurement process. For non electronic copies of the PQQ
please use the contact address in section I.1. It is anticipated that the
invitation to participate in the dialogue be sent to short listed bidders
by October 2009.
Section IV.3.4 - Expressions of interest must be by way of completion and
return of the PQQ by the date and time specified in Section IV.3.4 Section
IV.3.4.
Economic Operators wishing to participate should obtain a Pre
Qualification Questionnaire from the address specified in Section I.1,
complete it and return it to that address by the date and time specified
in Section IV.3.4.
GO reference: GO 09072415/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Wandsworth Borough
Council, Children's Services Department, BSF team, 2nd Floor Town Hall
Extension, Wandsworth High Street, UK-London SW18 2PU. E-mail:
bsfpqq@wandsworth.gov.uk. Tel. +44 2088718311. URL:
www.wandsworth.gov.uk/bsf. Fax +44 2088717212.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: In accordance with Regulation 32 (Information about
contract award procedures and the application of Standstill period prior
to contract award) and Regulation 47 (Enforcement of Obligations) of the
Public Contracts Regulations 2006.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 24.7.2009.
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