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UK-Derry: landscape architectural services

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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   DERRY
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:299157-2009
Publication Date:   Oct 28, 2009
Deadline:   Dec 11, 2009
Buyer:   DERRY CITY COUNCIL
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DERRY CITY COUNCIL
DERRY, North of Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.derrycity.gov.uk

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2210 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 208/2009, #299157-2009
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): Derry City Council, 98 Strand
Road, Attn: Mrs. Valerie Watts, UK-Derry BT48 7NN. Tel. +44 2871376578.
Fax +44 2871368536.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.derrycity.gov.uk.
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.
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:
Brooke Park Regeneration.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 12.
Main place of performance: Brooke Park, Derry.
NUTS code: UKN04.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Derry City
Council aims to create a ‘vibrant, prosperous region with equal
opportunities for all. Council through its Corporate Plan (2006-2009) is
committed to developing and prioritising a clean, diverse, accessible and
sustainable environment for people to enjoy.
Through the Corporate Planning Process, Objective 3 aims to ‘improve
provision of parks, play areas and cycle paths and enhance access to the
natural environment’. In pursuit of this objective, a specific target is
to ‘secure funding to undertake the refurbishment of Brooke Park’.
The Regeneration of Brooke Park is a key element component in the
regeneration of physical, social and economic regeneration of Derry City.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 71420000, 71400000,
71000000, 71200000, 71222000, 71351914, 71312000, 71311000, 71334000,
71324000, 71410000.
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: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The project involves the following key
elements;
To restore, revitalise and retain Brooke Park as an important green open
space in an area with particularly high-density housing and high levels of
social, economic and green space deprivation.
To restore the Gate Lodge, ‘Black Man’ Statue, gates and railings,
boundary walls, lower Creggan Road Pedestrian access and main entrance and
frontage on Rosemount Avenue.
To use plants in keeping with the original intended design, appropriate to
the setting of an historic Victorian park and to provide high quality
planting beds, which were among the parks’ main attractions, to reflect
the original stature of the Gwyn’s Institution in its heyday in 1850's and
later Brooke Park in the early 20thC.
To restore the oval pond with a water feature as a focal point in the
park.
Redesign the site of the Gwyn’s Institute as an events space/auditorium to
maximise the use of this space which was once the heart of the site.
To develop a Training Centre within the walled Garden and partner with
Conservation Volunteers (CVNI) to train and build new audiences for the
park and to house parks staff within this new building.
To develop new junior and toddler play environments.
To establish the Gate Lodge as a customer/visitor point where visitors can
find out more about the park, news, history and events.
To redevelop the Bowling Pavilion to accommodate food, beverages and
public toilets.
To develop a new pedestrian access at Rosemount Avenue (adjacent to the
Bowling Green) to extend the character of the historic park.
To replace the existing shale pitches with a full size grass pitch.
To develop a synthetic/floodlight Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) on the
underused basket ball courts.
To develop a new Contact Sports and Fitness Centre with associated general
meeting room within the confines of the Walled Garden.
To develop a new car park on the site of the underused tennis courts to
accommodate the Leisure Centre.
To undertake minor alterations to improve the internal arrangement of the
Leisure Centre, increase changing facility capacity and provide additional
space for leisure activities i.e. Judo.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 500 000 GBP.
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.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: No.
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: Any supplier
may be disqualified who:
(a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, whose affairs are being administered
by the court, who has entered into an
Arrangement with creditors or who is in any analogous situation arising
from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;
(b) is the subject of proceeding for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an
order of compulsory winding-up or administration by the court or for an
arrangement with creditors or is the subject of any other similar
proceedings under national laws or regulations;
(c) has been convicted of an offence concerning his professional conduct
by a judgement which as the force or res judicata;
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means
which the contracting authorities can justify,
(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social
security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the
country in which he is established or those of the country of the
contracting authority;
(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in
accordance with the legal provisions of the Country in which he is
established or those of the country of the contracting authority;
(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentations in supplying the information
required under the provisions of the Directive on the criteria for
qualitative selection.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: a) appropriate
statements from bankers;
(b) the submission of the firms balance sheets or extracts there from,
where publication of a balance.
Sheet is required under company law in the country in which the supplier
is established;
(c) a statement of the firms overall turnover and its turnover in respect
of the goods to which the contract relates for the previous 3 financial
years.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
As per 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:
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: 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:
Brooke Park Regeneration.
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: 10.12.2009 - 09:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
11.12.2009 - 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 days: 120 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 14.12.2009 - 14:00.
Place: Derry city council offices.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
Derry City Council elected Members only.
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.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 26.10.2009.
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