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UK-Exeter: sportswear

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   EXETER
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:63418-2010
Publication Date:   Mar 3, 2010
Deadline:   Apr 1, 2010
Buyer:   THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
EXETER, Devon
United Kingdom
Web Site:   http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofexeter

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Notice Type: 2120 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 43/2010, #63418-2010
Contract Nature: Supply contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Supplies
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): The University of Exeter,
Procurement Services, Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive, Attn: Mr Peter
Fletcher, Exeter EX4 4QH, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1392725453. E-mail:
p.w.fletcher@exeter.ac.uk. Fax +44 1392264300.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofexeter.
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: The University of
Exeter, Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive, Contact: Peter Fletcher,
Exeter EX4 4QH, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1392725453. E-mail:
p.w.fletcher@exeter.ac.uk. URL: http://in-tendhost.co.uk/
universityofexeter.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Body governed by public law.
Education.
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:
UK-Exeter: provision of sports kit for the athletics union.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Supplies.
Purchase.
Main place of delivery: Athletics Union, Stocker Road, University of
Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QN, Devon.
NUTS code: UKK4.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with a
single operator.
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:
Range: between 400 000 and 700 000 GBP.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): This tender is
for the provision of sports kit and sports leisure wear for a number of
different sports for the University of Exeter's (UoE) Athletics Union
(AU).
The UoE is looking to appoint a supplier on a call-off framework for a
minimum of 2 years, with the possibility to extend for a further 2 years
subject to satisfactory performance of the contract.
The AU currently has circa 5 000 members registered to various clubs.
Please see the tender documents for further detail.
Sportswear.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 18412000.
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.2.1) Total quantity or scope: This tender is for the provision of
sports kit and sports leisure wear for a number of different sports for
the University of Exeter's (UoE) Athletics Union (AU).
The UoE is looking to appoint a supplier on a call-off framework for a
minimum of 2 years, with the possibility to extend for a further 2 years.
The AU currently has circa 5 000 members registered to various clubs.
Please see the tender documents for further detail.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 400 000 and 700 000 GBP.
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: These will be specified either
in the pre-qualification or questionnaire or invitation to tender (ITT).
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Services to be
funded by the Contracting Authority.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Company, limited company, sole trader,
partnership, joint & several responsibility, temporary association.
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: (a) is
bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by
the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where
he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation
arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;
(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an
order for compulsory winding up or administration by the court or of an
arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under
national laws and regulations;
(c) has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata
in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence
concerning his professional conduct;
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means
which the contracting authorities can demonstrate;
(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 with 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 with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information
required under this section or has not supplied such information;
(h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal
organisation, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action
98/733/JHA;
(i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in
Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council
Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;
(j) has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of
Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial
interests of the European Communities;
(k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined
in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of
the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
These will be specified either in the pre-qualification or questionnaire
or invitation to tender (ITT).
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate
statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant
professional risk indemnity insurance;
(b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the
balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under
the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
(c) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where
appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum
of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on
which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading,
as far as the information on these turnovers is available.
These will be specified either in the pre-qualification or questionnaire
or invitation to tender (ITT).
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: These will be specified
either in the pre-qualification or questionnaire or invitation to tender
(ITT).
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met:
(a) a list of the works carried out over the past 5 years, accompanied by
certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These
certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and
shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the
trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority
shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct;
(b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services
provided in the past 3 years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether
public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided
shall be given:
— where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of
certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority,
— where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's
certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic
operator.
(c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether
or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking,
especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of
public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order
to carry out the work;
(d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the
supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's
study and research facilities;
(f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service
provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff
and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for
providing the services or managing the work;
(g) for public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in
appropriate cases, an indication of the environmental management measures
that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the
contract;
(h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or
contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years;
(j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services
provider intends possibly to subcontract;
These will be specified either in the pre-qualification or questionnaire
or invitation to tender (ITT).
These will be specified either in the pre-qualification or questionnaire
or invitation to tender (ITT).
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
These will be specified either in the pre-qualification or questionnaire
or invitation to tender (ITT).
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.
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: 5. Maximum number: 10
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: These
will be specified either in the pre-qualification or questionnaire or
invitation to tender (ITT).
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:
UOE/2010/005.
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:
1.4.2010 - 12:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 6.4.2010.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 1.4.2010 - 12:30.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes.
A protocol exists for at least 2 apropriately qualified
project/procurement staff to be present for the opening ceremony.
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: Suppliers may only request and receive the
tender documents through the University's e-tendering system.
To access, suppliers must go to the following address non the Internet
http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofexeter/asp/home.asp and register its
interest against the project 'UOE/2010/005 - Provision of Sports Kit for
the Athletice Union'.
This action will release the tender documents including the Vendor
Questionn aire to applicants.
GO reference: GO 10022626/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: The University of Exeter will incorporate a standstill
period at the point information on the award of the contract is
communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information
on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum
of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge
the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) / Utilities Contracts
Regulations (SI 2005 No 6) (delete as appropriate) 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).
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 26.2.2010.
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