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UK-Sheffield: administrative educational services

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General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   SHEFFIELD
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:263609-2010
Publication Date:   Sep 4, 2010
Deadline:   Oct 4, 2010
Buyer:   DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION AND SKILLS
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS
SHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.bis.gov.uk

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Notice type: 01322 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 172/2010, #263609-2010
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)
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
2 St Paul's Place
Contact: Aled Williams
Attn: Aled Williams
S1 2FJ Sheffield
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. +44 1142075305
E-mail: Aled.Williams@bis.gsi.gov.uk
Fax +44 1142075377
Internet address(es)
General address of the contracting authority www.bis.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
General public services
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-London: management and administration of the matrix standard quality
assurance programme.
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 United Kingdom.
NUTS code UK
II.1.3) The notice involves
A public contract
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
United Kingdom. The matrix standard is a national quality standard for
organisations that deliver information, advice and/or guidance on learning
and work. Organisations are accredited to the matrix quality standard. The
Contracting Authority is seeking an organisation to ensure the effective
and efficient management of the matrix Standard assessment and
accreditation process; the management of the register of the independent
matrix practitioners; the continuous professional development of the
independent matrix practitioners; maintain the integrity of the quality
mark and test and implement agreed changes from the review of the matrix
Standard. Although the service that the Contracting Authority requires
falls within Part B of Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006
it has decided to place this advertisement in the OJEU on a voluntary
basis. Administrative educational services. Career guidance services.
Education and training services. Adult and other education services.
Guidance services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
75121000, 85312310, 80000000, 80400000, 79634000
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
The contract will be for an initial period of 3 years with an option to
extend the contract up to a further 1 year to a total of 4 years. The
funding from BIS will be up to 110 000 GBP in the first year of the
contract. There will be no BIS funding in subsequent years. The assessment
and accreditation body will also raise fees from organisations to cover
the assessment and accreditations processes throughout the period of the
contract. It is expected that these fees may be in excess of 1 000 000 GBP
and therefore a supplier would need to demonstrate they have the
experience and capacity of managing these sums.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION
Duration in months: 3 (from the award of the contract)
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them
Details contained within the tender documents.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded
Where a consortium wishes to bid the Contracting Authority reserves the
right to require groupings of suppliers to take a particular legal form or
to require a single supplier to take primary liability or to require that
each party undertakes joint and severable liability irrespective of the
form the grouping takes.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject
Yes
Compliance with EU and UK legislation and policy objectives including in
relation to health and safety, environmental considerations and equal
opportunities. Appropriate professional indemnity insurance.
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: Requirements are in the Pre Qualification Questionnaire available
from Aled Williams as per I.1 above.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are
met: Requirements are in the Pre Qualification Questionnaire available
from Aled Williams as per I.1 above.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required As set out in the
Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
III.2.3) Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are
met:
Requirements are in the Pre Qualification Questionnaire available from
Aled Williams as per I.1 above.
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
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 number of operators 6
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
Payable documents No
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
4.10.2010 - 12:00
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates
15.10.2010
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: 24.11.2010
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders Yes
By Officials of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.
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
GO reference: GO 10090210/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The Department for
Business Innovation and Skills will as soon as possible after the decision
has been made inform tenderers and candidates of its decision to award the
contract and provide the information required by regulation 32 of the
Public Contracts Regulations 2006. It will observe the standstill period
required by regulation 32A of those Regulations. The Regulations provide
that where a duty owed to economic operators is not observed by the
Contracting Authority the breach is actionable in the High Court (England,
Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly
(generally within 3 months.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
2.9.2010
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