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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   THURSO
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:313528-2009
Publication Date:   Apr 23, 2010
Deadline:   Dec 10, 2009
Buyer:   DOUNREAY SITE RESTORATION LIMITED
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DOUNREAY SITE RESTORATION LIMITED
THURSO, Caithness & Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty
United Kingdom

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2220 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 217/2009, #313528-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender


Update: Jan 22, 2010


Notice Type: 8098 - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 15/2010, #18347-2010
Referenced Document Number: 313528-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender


Update: Apr 22, 2010


Notice Type: 013EA - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 78/2010, #115409-2010
Referenced Document Number: 313528-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Original Text

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Dounreay Site Restoration
Limited, Building D2003, Dounreay, Caithness, Contact: Contracts Officer,
Attn: Karen Anderson, UK-Thurso KW14 7TZ. Tel. +44 1847806031. E-mail:
karen.anderson@dounreay.com. Fax +44 1847802521.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.dounreay.com.
Further information can be obtained at: Dounreay Site Restoration Limited,
Building D2003/Zone 10, Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness, Contact: Contracts
Officer, Attn: Karen Anderson, UK-Thurso KW14 7TZ. Tel. +44 1847806031.
E-mail: karen.anderson@dounreay.com. Fax +44 1847802521. URL:
www.dounreay.com.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, Building D2003/Zone 10, Dounreay,
Thurso, Caithness, Contact: Contracts Officer, Attn: Karen Anderson,
UK-Thurso KW14 7TZ. Tel. +44 1847806031. E-mail:
karen.anderson@dounreay.com. Fax +44 1847802521. URL: www.dounreay.com.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Dounreay Site
Restoration Limited, Building D2003/Zone 10, Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness,
Contact: Contracts Officer, Attn: Karen Anderson, UK-Thurso KW14 7TZ. Tel.
+44 1847806031. E-mail: karen.anderson@dounreay.com. Fax +44 1847802521.
URL: www.dounreay.com.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Body governed by public law.
Other: Nuclear Decommissioning.
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:
Provision of Professional Services.
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: Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7TZ.
NUTS code: UKM61.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with
several operators.
Maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 4.
Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 4.
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement:
Estimated value excluding VAT: 30 000 000,00 GBP.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Establishment
of Framework Agreements to Provide a full range of professional services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 71320000, 98113100,
90721000, 90700000.
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.2.1) Total quantity or scope: Establishment of a Framework Agreement
to provide a full range of Professional Services, including:
Design Services, Drafting Services, Engineering Substantiation,
Engineering Validation, Safety Cases, Environmental Cases, Environmental
Support Services, Project Management, Specialist Engineering, Specialist
Safety Case, Peer Review Services, Decommissioning & Strategic Studies,
Waste Strategy Documents, Business Support, Technical Support.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 20 000 000,00 and 30 000 000,00 GBP.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Starting:
1.4.2010. Completion: 31.3.2014.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: The pre-qualification
questionnaire and rules will provide details and is available on request.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Tenders are to be
priced in GBP and payment will be made only in GBP.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: The pre-qualification questionnaire
and rules will provide details and is available on request.
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: Please
provide brief details of any personnel with powers of representation,
decision or control, who have any unspent convictions relating to any of
the offences listed under regulations 23(1) of the Public Contracts
Regulations 2006 or the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: The pre-qualification
questionnaire and rules will provide details and is available on request.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
The pre-qualification questionnaire and rules will provide details and is
available on request.
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: Restricted.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged minimum number: 7. Maximum number: 8
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: If more
than the required number of qualified candidates meet the conditions of
participation (as set out in section III), the qualified candidates will
be ranked by Dounreay Site Restoration Limited using a marking scale based
on primarily on the aforementioned selection criteria in order to find
those candidates which will be invited to tender.
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 no.
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.3.2) 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: 3.12.2009 - 12:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
10.12.2009 - 16:15.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 6.1.2010.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: 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: Documents - All documents must be in
English or with an English translation.
Payment - All documents to be priced in GBP and all payments made in GBP.
Cost of tendering - Dounreay Site Restoration Limited reserves the right
not to award a contract. The costs of tendering shall be the
responsibility of tenderers.
English Law - The contract shall be considered as a contract made in
England and shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the
provisions of English Law.
Annul - Dounreay Site Restoration Limited reserve the right to annul the
tendering process and not award a contract.
Sub-contract - Dounreay Site Restoration Limited work within strict
guidelines and you will be required to specify and justify any proposals
to subcontract.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: Dounreay Site Restoration Limited will incorporate a
minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the
award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows
unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from Dounreay Site
Restoration Limited before a contract is entered into. Applicants have 2
working days from the notification of the award decision to request
additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of
3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional
information should be sought from the contact named in this notice.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully
resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 no 5, which apply to
England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Public Contracts (Scotland)
Regulations 2006 no 1, which apply to Scotland, provide for aggrieved
parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the
rules to take action in the sheriff court, the Court of Session,
(Scotland) or in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the High Court.
Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months).
Where a contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting
aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document
and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may
only award damages.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 10.11.2009.


Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, Building D2003, Dounreay, Caithness,
Contracts Officer, attn: Karen Anderson, UK-KW14 7TZ Thurso. Tel. +44
1847806031. E-mail: karen.anderson@dounreay.com. Fax +44 1847802521.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 11.11.2009,
2009/S 217-313528)
RE: CPV: 71320000, 98113100, 90721000, 90700000.
Engineering design services.
Nuclear safety services.
Environmental safety services.
Instead of: IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be
invited to tender or to participate:
Envisaged minimum number: 7.
Read: IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited
to tender or to participate:
Envisaged minimum number: 9.


Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, Building D2003, Dounreay, Caithness,
Contracts Officer, attn: Karen Anderson, UNITED KINGDOM-KW14 7TZThurso.
Tel. +44 1847806031. E-mail: karen.anderson@dounreay.com. Fax +44
1847802521.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 11.11.2009,
2009/S 217-313528)
Instead of:
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement:
Maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 4.
Read:
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement
Maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 5.
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