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Contract Award

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   DIDCOT
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:32250-2010
Publication Date:   Feb 3, 2010
Buyer:   RCUK SSC LTD
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   RCUK SSC LTD
DIDCOT, UNITED KINGDOM
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.rcuk.ac.uk

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2280 - Contract award
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 23/2010, #32250-2010
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not applicable
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender
Successful Bidder: NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR IN FAVOUR OF WHOM A CONTRACT AWARD
DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN: AEA Technology plc, B329, Harwell IBC, Didcot
OX11 0QJ, UNITED KINGDOM.

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CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): RCUK SSC Ltd, Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Attn: Jonathan
Smith, Didcot OX11 0QX, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1235446394. E-mail:
jonathan.smith@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk. Fax +44 1235445794.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.rcuk.ac.uk.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Body governed by public law.
Other: Scientific Research.
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: Researchers in residence
scheme.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category No 24.
NUTS code UK.
II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The researchers
in residence (RinR) scheme, which has been running since 1994, is jointly
funded by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Wellcome Trust. The scheme
provides UK schools with access to young, positive role-models working as
researchers in the physical, social, life and earth sciences and the
humanities. These researchers develop a range of transferable skills
through working alongside teachers and students in the classroom to bring
their area of contemporary research alive for the students. The RCUK SSC
Ltd wishes to appoint an organisation that will run the scheme. Among the
many duties of the Contractor will be to recruit and train a minimum of
200 early-stage researchers supported by the Funders each year to complete
placements in schools with students between the ages of 11 and 18.
II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 80200000, 80211000,
80570000.
II.1.6) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
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.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction has been used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
JS2291.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT
CONTRACT NO: EP001757
TITLE: RCUK Researchers in residence scheme.
V.1) Date of contract award decision: 23.6.2009.
V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED: 5.
V.3) NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR IN FAVOUR OF WHOM A CONTRACT
AWARD DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN: AEA Technology plc, B329, Harwell IBC,
Didcot OX11 0QJ, UNITED KINGDOM.
V.5) THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED: No.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY
COMMUNITY FUNDS: No.
VI.3) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL:
VI.3.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: The Authority will incorporate a minimum of 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 two working days from
notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and
that information has to be provided a minimum of three working days before
the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be
requested from the address in Section 1.1. 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 the aggrieved
parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by 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 three 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.4) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 1.2.2010.
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