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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   SHEFFIELD
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:323213-2009
Publication Date:   Jun 22, 2010
Deadline:   Nov 27, 2009
Buyer:   DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
SHEFFIELD
United Kingdom

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2220 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 225/2009, #323213-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender


Update: Jun 22, 2010


Notice type: 013EC - Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 119/2010, #179324-2010
Referenced Document Number: 323213-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: 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): Department for Work and
Pensions, CD Sourcing, Commercial Directorate, Level 4, Mayfield Court,
56, West Street, Contact: CD Sourcing, Attn: Mrs D Reeve, UK-Sheffield S1
4EP. Tel. +44 1142601846. E-mail: diane.reeve@dwp.gsi.gov.uk. Fax +44
1142601924.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.dwp.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:
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their
regional or local sub-divisions.
Social protection.
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:
Personalised Employment Programme.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 24.
Main place of performance: 1) Hampshire and Isle of Wight and Thames
Valley.
2) Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The
Personalised Employment Programme (PEP) pilots commencing in March 2011
are part of the new Welfare to Work initiatives announced in the December
2008 White Paper ‘Raising expectations and increasing support – reforming
welfare for the future’.
PEP will replace the mandatory New Deals and Provider Led Pathways in the
pilot areas and will combine provision for Jobseekers Allowance customers
and Employment and Support Allowance customers in a single, integrated,
flexible employment programme. It is expected that customers will be on
provision for 24 months. Through this multi-client group contracting
approach DWP will test a radical new way of tailoring support to
individual needs and helping those with multiple barriers to employment
back to work. The pilots will test an innovative ‘accelerator’ funding
model.
DWP are committed to an open and transparent approach throughout the
procurement process. DWP would like to bring to potential suppliers'
attention the possibility of additional volumes and services which may be
required during the life of the contract. Changes may be made in response
to the review of Pathways to Work announced by the Secretary of State on
13.11.2009 for example. The scope of these changes is dependent on future
policy development but may include:
— Extension of provision to other mandatory customer groups such as lone
parents and partners of customers in receipt of Incapacity Benefit/Income
Support and ESA. This could indicatively increase volumes by up to an
additional 60 000 over the life of the contract,
— Enhanced Conditionality regime for the Progression to Work Group.
Such changes will be subject to discussion and agreement at the
appropriate time. We will provide more information in the ITT.
For the procurement of PEP, the approach in the two contract package areas
is that DWP will let contracts with one contractor in each area. DWP will
enter into contracts with single lead entities who will deliver PEP in one
of the following ways:
— Direct delivery of a proportion of the provision and subcontracting of
the remaining provision to other organisations; or
— Sub-contracting of the entire provision to other organisations; or
— Direct delivery by one organisation.
DWP has no preference for any of these options and all bids will be
considered on their merits. However, due to the size and complexity of
contracts to be awarded, it is unlikely that any single organisation could
deliver PEP as a sole deliverer. Where organisations intend to bid as a
consortium, they may nominate a lead organisation who will act as the
prime supplier (with the other organisations as sub-contractors) or they
may set up a new legal entity such as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to
bid for the contracts.
Information on expected volumes is provided in the Provision Specification
on the Supplying DWP website as a guide only. Due to the nature of the
services to be provided and the current economic uncertainty, volumes are
likely to change both in the short term and throughout the duration of the
contract. Close working will be required throughout the procurement
process to ensure that customer needs continue to be met.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 80400000.
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.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 48 (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: Parent company guarantees,
performance bonds or deposits may be required in appropriate
circumstances.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: See tender
documents.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: No special legal form is required, but
each service provider will be required to become jointly and severally
responsible for 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 if any of the circumstances listed in Article 45 of
the Public Procurement Directive 2004/18/EC (Regulation 23 of the UK
Public Contracts Regulations 2006) apply to their organisation. Suppliers
will be asked to complete an appropriate declaration, which will be
provided at a later stage.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: A questionnaire will be
issued to suppliers who respond to this Notice to request details of their
economic and financial capacity.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
A questionnaire will be issued to suppliers who respond to this Notice to
request details of their technical capacity.
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:
No.
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 number of operators 14
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: An
assessment of the suppliers' capability and capacity to deliver the
services required will be made based on the responses given in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. Further details on the evaluation
criteria are provided in the 'Instructions to Bidders' document which
accompanies the PQQ.
It should be noted that there will be a maximum of 7 operators invited to
tender for each contract package area.
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: Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
27.11.2009 - 16:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
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: Personalised Employment Programme will be
procured using a two stage tendering approach. For the first stage of the
process, bidders will complete a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).
Bidders successful at this stage will then be invited to submit a tender
for the second stage.
Interested organisations wishing to tender are invited to visit the
Supplying DWP website via the link below to view the specification and
submit an expression of interest no later than 4 pm on Friday 27.11.2009.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/supplying-dwp/what-we-buy/welfare-to-work-services/
opportunities-to-tender/.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: This authority 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 the contracting authority before the contract
is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from notification of the
award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has
to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before expiry of the standstill
period. Such additional information should be requested from the officer
named in section I.1 of this contract notice or in the letter/e-mail
providing the information about contract award if different. If an appeal
regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the
Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) 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 High Court (England, Wales and Northern
Ireland). 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. The purpose of the standstill period
referred to above is to allow parties to apply to the courts to set aside
the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 19.11.2009.


Department for Work and Pensions, CD Sourcing, Commercial Directorate,
Level 4, Mayfield Court, 56, West Street, CD Sourcing, attn: Mrs D Reeve,
UNITED KINGDOM-S1 4EPSheffield. Tel. +44 1142601846. E-mail:
diane.reeve@dwp.gsi.gov.uk. Fax +44 1142601924.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 21.11.2009,
2009/S 225-323213)Incomplete procedureThe awarding procedure has been
discontinued.
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