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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   LONDON
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:262296-2010
Publication Date:   Sep 3, 2010
Deadline:   Sep 30, 2010
Buyer:   GUY'S & ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   GUY'S & ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
LONDON, LONDON
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice type: 01322 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 171/2010, #262296-2010
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)
Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Procurement Department, 2nd Floor, New City Court, Guy's Hospital, Great
Maze Pond
Contact: Sourcing Team
Attn: Mr Julian Soden, Assistant Sourcing Manager
SE1 9RT London
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. +44 2071885323
E-mail: julian.soden@gstt.nhs.uk
Fax +44 2071885303
Internet address(es)
General address of the contracting authority www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk
Address of the buyer profile http://kingshealthpartners.g2b.info
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
Health
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities Yes
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority
UK-London: t2059 provision of fully managed linen rental and laundry
service.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance
Services
Service category: No 27
Main place of performance Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London SE1. This
contract is also open to other members of Kings Health Partners, London.
NUTS code UKI
II.1.3) The notice involves
The establishment of a framework agreement
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 cost excluding VAT
Range: between 6 000 000 and 8 000 000 GBP
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Fully managed linen rental and laundry service. Bed linen. Table linen.
Hospital linen. Laundry bags. Laundry-collection services. Laundry
management services. Laundry operation services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
19231000, 98311000, 98311100, 98311200, 18935000, 39513000, 39518000,
39512000
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
Yes
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope
For further information about this tender including how to obtain the
Tender Prospectus and PQQ please refer to VI.3) Additional information (if
applicable) below.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded
Joint and several liability.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject
Yes
Please refer to Tender Prospectus and subsequent ITT.
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 May 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 June 1991 on prevention
of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
For further information about the Tender including how to obtain the
Tender Prospectus and PQQ please refer to VI.3) Additional information (if
applicable) below.
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.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required For further information
about the Tender including how to obtain the Tender Prospectus and PQQ
please refer to VI.3) Additional information (if applicable) below.
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 five 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 three 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;
e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or,
exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by
the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official
body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is
established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production
capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service
provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are
available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;
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;
i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the
service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;
j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services
provider intends possibly to subcontract;
k) with regard to the products to be supplied:
i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which
must be certified if the contracting authority so requests;
ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or
agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products
clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.
For further information about the Tender including how to obtain the
Tender Prospectus and PQQ please refer to VI.3) Additional information (if
applicable) below.
Applicants must hold all and any cicences appropriate to the performance
of this contract.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required
For further information about the Tender including how to obtain the
Tender Prospectus and PQQ please refer to VI.3) Additional information (if
applicable) below.
Applicants must hold all and any cicences appropriate to the performance
of this contract.
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.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
T2059
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
No
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
Payable documents No
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
30.9.2010 - 17:00
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
Yes
estimated timing for further notices to be published: 4 years time
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The information and documents for this tender will be accessible at the
following website www.delta-ets.com. To be able to access these documents
you will need to register your company details and enter the following
Tender Access Code (TAC) 04T293692 at the bottom of the registration page,
thereafter you will be issued with a Username and Password. If you have
already registered with Delta previously, please follow the link shown and
click on the "Delta-ets Home" tab instead. This will redirect you to the
home page where you can log on using your existing username and password
to collect the tender documents. If you have registered and have forgotten
your Username and Password, please click on the forgotten password link on
the Delta-ets homepage. Please keep this Username and Password secure, and
do not pass it to any third parties. You must log into Delta-ets and then
click on the Vault tab, if you have added the TAC code to your
registration you will automatically view the tender title. Click on this
link and you will be taken into the tenderbox where the documents are
stored. If you have previously accessed Delta then please enter the TAC
code in Vault and you will then be able to access the documentation.
Please check that you are able to access these online ITT documents. If
you are experiencing problems, then please contact the Delta helpdesk via
email: helpdesk@delta-ets.com or call +44 8452707050 for further
assistance Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when
responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time. If you are
uploading multiple documents you will have to individually load one
document at a time or you can opt to zip all the documents in an
application like WinZip or WinRar.
GO reference: GO 10083103/01.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
31.8.2010
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