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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   CARDIFF
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:281880-2009
Publication Date:   Oct 10, 2009
Deadline:   Nov 25, 2009
Buyer:   CARDIFF COUNTY COUNCIL,CORPORATE SERVICES - PROCUREMENT & SUPPLIES.
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   CARDIFF COUNTY COUNCIL,CORPORATE SERVICES - PROCUREMENT & SUPPLIES.
CARDIFF, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
United Kingdom
Email:   Click here

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Notice Type: 2210 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 196/2009, #281880-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open 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): Cardiff County
Council,Corporate Services - Procurement & Supplies., Bessemer Close,
Leckwith Industrial Estate, Leckwith, Attn: Mike Bennett, UK-Cardiff CF11
8XH. Tel. +44 2920873734. E-mail: mbennett@cardiff.gov.uk. Fax +44
2920377605.
Further information can be obtained at: 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.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Corporate Banking and Related Services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 6.
Main place of performance: Various locations throughout the Cardiff County
Council geographic area.
NUTS code: UKL22.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The provision
of Banking and Related Services for Cardiff County Council for a 3 year
period commencing 1.4.2010, with an option to extend by mutual agreement
for a further period of up to 12 months.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 66110000, 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: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: There will be an option for the Council to
extend the contract for a further period of up to 12 months.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 36 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Payment will be made
in sterling unless otherwise agreed.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Joint and several liability.
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: As indicated
within the Tender documentation.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: As indicated within the
Tender documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As indicated within the
Tender documentation.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
As indicated within the Tender documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As indicated within the Tender documentation.
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.
An Institution authorised under the Banking Act 1987.
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: 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:
2367CCC.
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: 18.11.2009 - 23:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
25.11.2009 - 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: Until: 22.2.2010.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 25.11.2009 - 12:00.
Place: Cardiff County Council, Post Room, Level 1, County Hall, Atlantic
Wharf, Cardiff CF10 4UW, UNITED KINGDOM.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
Council Officers only.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This procurement process will be run as an
e-tender opportunity through the Councils Alito Portal.
You will need to express an interest in this tender via the Alito portal
on http://appswales.alito.co.uk and you will then be able to download the
Tender documents from the site. If you are a new user or currently
registered then please ensure that category code SP04 (Banking Services)
is included in your supplier profile.
The deadline for expressing an interest and downloading the documents is
18.11.2009 (23:00) and the deadline for the receipt of the completed
Tenders by the Council is on 25.11.2009 (12:00).
Please be aware that the user that registers your expression of interest
will be the only point of contact for the Tender and receive all
communications and dialogues through Alito, also note that you need to
download the documents yourselves they will NOT be sent to you.
Buy4Wales Reference Number: 18768.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: The Authority will incorporate a minimum of a 10 day
standstill period at the point of information in the award of the Contract
communicated to Tenderers. This period will allow unsuccessful Tenderers
to seek further de-briefing from the contracting authority, should they so
wish, before a Contract is entered into. Applicants will have two working
days from the notification of the award decision, to request a de-brief
and that information has to be provided a minimum of three working days
before the expiry of the standstill period. Such information should be
sought from the contact named in Section 1.1 of this notice.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 8.10.2009.
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