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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:258489-2009
Publication Date:   Sep 18, 2009
Deadline:   Sep 24, 2009
Buyer:   ONE NORTHEAST AND/OR OTHER CONTRACTING AUTHORITIES AS SET OUT IN SECTION VI.3 OF THIS NOTICE
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   ONE NORTHEAST AND/OR OTHER CONTRACTING AUTHORITIES AS SET OUT IN SECTION VI.3 OF THIS NOTICE
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NORTH EAST (ENGLAND)
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.onenortheast.co.uk

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Notice Type: 2230 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 180/2009, #258489-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Accelerated restricted procedure
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): One NorthEast and/or other
Contracting Authorities as set out in section VI.3 of this notice, Stella
House, UK-Newcastle Upon Tyne NE15 8NY.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.onenortheast.co.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: www.onenortheast.bravosolution.co.uk.
Further information can be obtained at: One North East, All requests for
information must be sent through the messaging facility on the One
NorthEast eTendering system.. URL: www.onenortheast.bravosolution.co.uk.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
One North East, All requests for information must be sent through the
messaging facility on the One NorthEast eTendering system.. URL:
www.onenortheast.bravosolution.co.uk.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: One North East, All
requests for information must be sent through the messaging facility on
the One NorthEast eTendering system, instructions on registering and
accessing the documents are set out in section III.2.1. URL:
www.onenortheast.bravosolution.co.uk.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Regional or local agency/office.
Other: Regional Development Agency for the North East.
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:
Fund Management Services for a Co - Investment Fund for SMEs in the
Creative Sector in the North East of England.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 6.
NUTS code: UKC.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): One North East,
on behalf of Northern Film and Media, the delivery agency responsible for
the fund, is seeking to appoint a fund manager to provide investment and
portfolio management services to an ERDF funded transitional Co-Investment
Fund. The find is targeted at the commercial creative sector in North East
England including film, television, games, interactive media and music.
The Co-Investment fund will:
— ensure that investment funding into the growing commercial creative
sector is maintained and, indeed, enhanced once the existing Design &
Creative Investment fund finishes in December 2009,
— test the market for public/private co-investment and validate new models
of such investment funding in regional creative businesses, specifically
‘stress-testing’ the COIF model e.g:
—— fund administration,
—— developing high quality deal flow and investment pipelines,
—— attracting private sector investment and establishing a strong
co-investment prospectus and partnership, and,
—— leveraging strong national / international networks.
— maximise the returns and minimise the operational and delivery costs;
and,
— maximise private sector leverage.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 66122000, 66190000,
66172000, 66171000, 66170000, 66152000, 66151000, 66150000, 66121000,
66120000, 66131000, 66130000, 48812000, 66000000, 66100000.
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: Economic Operators should be aware that
the value of this fund management contract is anticipated to be between 15
and 20 % of the overall fund.
This contract is subject to One North East funding approval process.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 24 (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 Authority
reserves the right to demand any deposits, guarantees, bonds and insurance
cover it deems appropriate.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Details will be in
the Tender Specification.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: The Contracting Authority reserves the
right to require groupings of contractors to take particular legal form or
to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
Where a consortium or sub-contracting approach is proposed, you will be
required to provide all information in respect of the relationships and
roles between the parties and identify the proportion of the work to be
delivered by the parties named.
All economic operators will be required to have appropriate authorisation
from the Financial Services Authority prior to the delivery of services
under the terms of the Contract.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
The terms and conditions of the contract will be issued at the ITT stage.
This agreement will set out the terms of the Contract between the Fund
Manager and the Agencys appointed deliverer of the Fund - Northern Film
and Media.
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: Expressions
of interest to request the Pre Qualification and Contract Needs Documents
must be received by 24.9.2009 (11:59).
Assessment will be made against the information provided as required in
the Tender Specification and ITT Documents. The completed Pre
Qualification Questionnaire must be returned to the Contracting Authority
by no later than 24.9.2009 (12:00).
1 Registering Your Company On The E-Tendering Portal:
1.1 browse to www.onenortheast.bravosolution.co.uk;
1.2 click the hyperlink located under the 'Login' tab (found within the
right hand menu);
1.3 review and accept the terms and conditions and click 'Continue';
1.4 enter your correct business and user details;
1.5 please note the username you chose and click 'Save' when complete. You
will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this
secure).
1.6 Supplier sub-users can be set up on the portal to allow colleagues to
be involved with various stages of the tender – please contact Bravo via
+44 08000112470 if you believe that your company may have already
registered.
2 Expressing an Interest in an Opportunity:
2.1 login to the portal with the username/password;
2.2 click "PQQ Open to All Suppliers"
2.3 click on the relevant PQQ;
2.4 click the 'Express Interest' button within the 'Actions' box on the
left-hand side of the page. This will move the PQQ into the 'My PQQ' page.
(This is a secure area reserved for your projects only);
2.5 click on ‘Buyer Attachments’ to access documents associated with the
PQQ.
2.6 you can now use the 'Messages' function to communicate with the buyer
and seek any clarification.
3 Responding to a PQQ:
3.1 Login to the portal with the username/password.
3.2 Click ‘My PQQ’.
3.3 Click ‘Response’ next to the appropriate PQQ.
3.4 Add attachments (i.e. the documents requested).
3.4.1 Attachments are added under ‘qualification attachments’ and / or
‘technical attachments’ as appropriate.
3.4.2 Under no circumstances should tenders be attached as a message.
Tender attached as a message will be viewed as non-compliant.
3.4.3 Note that there may be several actions to perform.
3.5 To make your response visible to the buyer you must click 'Publish'.
The 'Publish' link can be found on the left hand side of the screen under
the heading Actions.
Should you have any technical queries relating to creating a login or
accessing your account, please contact help@bravosolution.co.uk or +44
08000112470.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Details will be in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire ('PQQ').
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Details will be in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire ('PQQ').
All economic operators will be required to have appropriate authorisation
from the Financial Services Authority prior to delivery of the services
under the terms of the Contract.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
Details will be in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire ('PQQ').
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
All economic operators will be required to have appropriate authorisation
from the Financial Services Authority prior to delivery of the services
under the terms of the Contract.
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:
Yes.
All economic operators will be required to have appropriate authorisation
from the Financial Services Authority prior to delivery of the services
under the terms of the Contract.
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: Accelerated restricted.
Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure: Directive
2004/18/EC.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged minimum number: 3.
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Selection Criteria - Details and minimum standards will be in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire ('PQQ').
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:
OJEU0910- 008.
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: 24.9.2009 - 11:59.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
24.9.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 24.9.2009 - 12:01.
Place: PQQ bids received will be opened though the One North East
e-Tendering System after the deadline has passed. Tenders received at the
next stage will also opened through the One North East eTendering system.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
A member of the One North East Procurement Team.
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: Variant bids will be accepted at the
discretion of the Contracting Authority and in accordance with the
Instructions to Tenderers Document - issued at the Invitation to Tender
Stage in the process.
Economic operators should be awware that the Contracting Authority for
this Procurement Process is Northern Film and Media, who are the nominated
deliverers of the Co Investment Fund on behalf of One North East.
One North East may allow one or more of the Regional Development Agencies
and/or public bodies /and or subsiduary companies and/or recipients of
Public monies to access the concluded Contract, without creating any
obligation of any of them to do so. In that event the contractual
relationship would be between the approved individual accessing the
contract and the contractor.
In addition One North East may novate this contract to one of its wholly
owned subsidiaries and/or any company, organisation or other Special
Purpose Vehicle which One North East has an ownership interst in or
otherwise participates in with consnt of the Secretary of State's consent
pursuant to Section 5 of the Regioanl Development Agencies Act 1998
(Secion 5 Entity).
The Contracting Authority - Northern Film and Media does not bind itself
to accept any tender and witholds the right to appoint outside any
contract should it be considered to be in the best interest of the
Contracting Authority.
One North East and the Contracting Authority are not liable for any costs
incurred by those expressing an interest or tendering for this
opportunity.
Compliance with all legislation is required, both in the contract award
procedure and during the terms of the contract.
One North East reserves the right to procure repeat services of a similar
nature to the services in this contract notice without a further call for
competition pursuant to Regulation 14(1) (d) (ii) of the Public Contract
Regulations 2006.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained: One North East, Stella House, Goldcrest Way, Newburn
Riverside, UK-Newcastle Upon Tyne NE15 8NY. E-mail:
e-tendering@onenortheast.co.uk. Tel. +44 1912296200. URL:
www.onenortheast.co.uk. Fax +44 1912296201.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 14.9.2009.
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