UK-Exeter: fast-food products

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   EXETER
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:263495-2009
Publication Date:   Sept 23, 2009
Deadline:   Nov 5, 2009
Buyer:   THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER GROUP
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER GROUP
EXETER , SOUTH WEST (ENGLAND)  
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.exeter.ac.uk

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2110 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 183/2009, #263495-2009
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Open 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): The University of Exeter
Group, Procurement Services, Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive, Attn:
Richard Price, UK-Exeter EX4 4QH. Tel. +44 1392725432. E-mail:
R.Price@exeter.ac.uk. Fax +44 1392264664.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.exeter.ac.uk.
Further information 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.
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:
UK-Exeter: framework agreement for a wholesaler to supply retail outlets.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Supplies.
Purchase.
Main place of delivery: South West (England).
NUTS code: UKK.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with a
single operator.
Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 2.
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement:
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 600 000 and 2 400 000 GBP.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Contracting
Authority seeks to appoint a food and general goods wholesaler to supply
retail goods to its retail outlets. The Contracting Authority reserves the
right to enable its 'partner organisations and institutions' to use this
agreement.
The contract term shall be 2 years with the Contracting Authority
reserving the right to extend this period by up to two (2) by one year
extension periods up to a maximum duration of the agreement of 4 years.
The estimated contract value shown above represents anticipated spend by
the Contracting Authority only, which may be subject to change. Fast-food
products. Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products.
Electrical domestic appliances for use with foodstuffs. Clothing,
footwear, luggage articles and accessories. Paper stationery and other
items. Articles and preparations for oral or dental hygiene. Food,
beverages, tobacco and related products.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 15895000, 30199000,
33000000, 15000000, 33711700, 18000000, 39711000.
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: Yes.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 600 000 and 2 400 000 GBP.
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: These will be specified in the
tender.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Supplies to be
funded by the Contracting Authority.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Company, limited company, sole trader,
partnership, joint & several responsibility, temporary association.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
These will be specified in the tender.
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: Firms will
be required to complete a Statement of Good Standing within the Form of
Tender.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate
statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant
professional risk indemnity insurance;
(b) 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;
(c) 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.
These will be specified in the tender.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: These will be specified
in the tender.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
These will be specified in the tender.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
These will be specified in the tender.
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.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Open.
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:
UOE/2009/018.
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: 4.11.2009 - 12:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
5.11.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the
tender: Duration in month(s): 6 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 5.11.2009 - 14:00.
Place: Exeter, UK.
Tender opening date & time may be later than stated.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no.
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: GO reference: GO 09091623/01.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 16.9.2009.
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