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Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   BLACKPOOL
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:239392-2009
Publication Date:   Aug 28, 2009
Deadline:   Sep 25, 2009
Buyer:   BLACKPOOL COUNCIL
Original Language:   English

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Address:   BLACKPOOL COUNCIL
BLACKPOOL, Blackpool
United Kingdom
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Notice Type: 22M0 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 165/2009, #239392-2009
Referenced Document Number: 231285-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Competitive dialogue
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Blackpool Council, 1 Clifton
Street, Attn: Donna Parkinson, UK-Blackpool FY1 1JD. Tel. +44
1253478977/6792. E-mail: procurement@blackpool.gov.uk. Fax +44 1253478594.
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.
Health.
Housing and community amenities.
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
- Blackpool Building Schools for the Future Project.
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: Blackpool and adjacent areas.
NUTS code: UKD42.
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 of the contracting authorities (as noted in Section V1.3). The
LEP will provide (or arrange for the provision of) "Partnering Services",
which may include (but not be limited to) the development of a strategic
investment programme for some or all of the following:
(a) educational facilities (which will include secondary schools and may
include primary schools), voluntary aided and foundation including trust
schools and academies and other places of primary, secondary and tertiary
education;
(b) other children’s services facilities (including but not limited to
children's centres, family centres, children’s homes, sure start
facilities, after school club facilities, youth clubs etc);
(c) community facilities that support educational outcomes (such as but
not limited to co-location and integration of key services such as
education, social services, children’s services, health care services
etc);
(d) accommodation for adult education and SEN education;
(e) leisure facilities (including but not limited to swimming pools,
sports facilities, leisure centres, theatres & studios etc);
(f) community facilities whether co-located with any of the above
facilities or freestanding (including but not limited to halls, drop-in
centres, crèches, sheltered workshops etc);
(g) social service facilities (including but not limited to day centres);
(h) office and other accommodation for any of the contracting authorities;
(i)facilities for health, library and other community services (together
the "Relevant Facilities") in the contracting authority’s areas including
travel to learn areas as defined in the descriptive document.
The Partnering Services will 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 of 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) soft facilities management services;
(viii) information communication and technology ("ICT") services;
(ix) educational support services;
(x) educational strategy services; and (xii) supporting wider regeneration
initiatives as part of the multi area agreement. The LEP will be required
to provide Partnering Services for a period of up to 15 years. The
Relevant Facilities, which may be a mixture of new build and refurbished
facilities, will be delivered under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI)
and/or design and build arrangements. This may include the delivery of the
Relevant Facilities through separate special purpose vehicles ("SPV")
established by the LEP or in the case of co-located capital works / new
projects provided via an existing SPV on a PFI site. Where an SPV is
established the shareholders in such SPV may include the LEP, third party
equity providers and supply chain members. The contracting authority may
contract directly with the LEP or, where an SPV is established, with the
SPV. 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 construction
contracts, facilities management services, support services and ICT
services (this list is not exhaustive) where the contracting authority’s
existing arrangements are either transferred or expire. There will be a
requirement for an ICT managed service being offered to Blackpool
Councils' primary schools which those schools will then be able to choose
whether to take. The two sample schools for the purpose of this scheme
will be Highfield Humanities College and St Mary’s Catholic College.
Important.
Please note that full details regarding the level of exclusivity are
provided in the PQQ documentation and Descriptive Document).
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 79400000, 45000000,
45111000, 45210000, 45211360, 45212322, 45214000, 45453100, 50700000,
51610000, 70000000, 71240000, 71315000, 71541000, 72222300, 72500000,
72514300, 75200000, 77314000, 77320000, 79411000, 79418000, 79420000,
79710000, 79993000, 80000000, 85323000, 90911200, 92610000, 98341140,
45214200, 85311300, 85320000, 45215000, 80100000, 80200000, 80340000,
80400000, 71250000, 45314000.
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: Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 500 000 000 and 1 000 000 000 GBP.
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: The partnering contract between the private
sector partner and the contracting authorities will be for a period of 10
years with an option to extend (exerciseable during the initial 10 year
term) for a further 5 years. The project may include additional services
or works which are a repetition of the services or works provided under
the original contract in accordance with Regulation 14 (1)(d)(ii) of the
Public Contracts Regulations 2006.
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 or other forms of
appropriate security. It is envisaged that this may include a mix of
parent company guarantee(s), performance bond(s) and or warranties
depending on the composition of the bidder.
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 some projects may be delivered using the UK governments private
finance initiative (PFI). Where the contracting authority is able to
demonstrate eligibility for the provision of debt finance from the HM
Treasury Infrastructure Finance Unit (TIFU), it may use this for funding
its PFI project(s) in addition to or in the absence of acceptable private
sector funding.
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. This may include the LEP establishing a special purpose vehicle (SPV)
which will contract directly with the contracting authorities for the
delivery of specific projects. Where an SPV is established the
shareholders in such SPV may include the contracting authorities, LEP,
third party equity providers and supply chain members. Further information
will be provided in the contract documents.
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 recruitment and training and supply chain
initiatives. Accordingly contract performance conditions may relate in
particular to social and environmental considerations.
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
Articles 47 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulations 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
Regulations 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.2.4) 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 minimum number: 3. Maximum number: 3
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Partnering Experience - overall weighting is 35 %.
Design, development, operations and ICT - overall weighting 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 %.
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:
MK/HOP/BSF/CD.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Prior
information notice
Notice number in OJ: 2008/S 173-231285 of 6.9.2008.
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:
25.9.2009 - 12:00.
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: Blackpool Council is acting as lead
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, 7th Floor, 8-10 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AW;
School Governing Bodies; Voluntary Aided Schools (and their governing
bodies); Diocesan authorities and Trustees appointed by them; Trust
Schools; Voluntary Controlled Schools (and their governing bodies);
Academies established or to be established in the areas of Blackpool; City
Technology Colleges; Foundation Schools; Foundation Partnerships; Learning
& Skills Council; Local Health Organisations; further education and/or
adult education providers; Primary Care Trust; Blackpool and the Fylde
College; Wyre Borough Council; Fylde Borough Council. BSF Investments LLP
has now been established by the Department of Education and Skills (now
the Department for Children, Schools and Families) and Partnerships UK as
the body which will invest equity in the LEP.
Blackpool Council will be using the new condensed procurement procedure
for its BSF programme, which received ministerial approval in May 2008. It
is hoped that by adopting the condensed procurement procedure, the
contracting authorities can streamline the procurement process and reduce
procurement times and costs for all parties. Details on the condensed
procurement procedure can be located on the PfS website
http://www.partnershipsforschools.org.uk and will be further articulated
in the invitation to participate in dialogue.
Partnerships for Schools is the non-departmental public body established
by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to implement the BSF
initiative. More information on the BSF initiative is set out in the
Descriptive Document.
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.
Sections II.1.9 The Authority may require mandatory variants but only in
addition to a compliant bid (as set out in the bidding documentation)
providing the authorities core requirements are met and provided that they
are in accordance with bidding documents.
Section 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
anticipated to commence December 2010 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, PFI, 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 13th May 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 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 Desriptive Document and the Invitation to
Participate in Dialogue.
Section IV.3.3 The Council will be submitting BSF Bidding documentation
(PQQ and information memorandum) using The Chest, the North West’s Local
Authority Procurement Portal. You must register your interest by e-mail to
procurement@blackpool.gov.uk. Once you have registered your interest you
will be given instructions on how to register(free of charge) on The Chest
to enable you to download the bidding documentation.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Blackpool Council, Town
Hall, UK-Blackpool FY1 1AD. E-mail: mike.kirkman@blackpool.gov.uk. Tel.
+44 1253478509. Fax +44 1253478594.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
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: 26.8.2009.
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