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UK-Chatham: tree-maintenance services

Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   CHATHAM
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:266247-2010
Publication Date:   Sep 8, 2010
Deadline:   Oct 13, 2010
Buyer:   MEDWAY COUNCIL
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   MEDWAY COUNCIL
CHATHAM, Medway
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.medway.gov.uk

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice type: 01322 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 174/2010, #266247-2010
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)
Medway Council
Gun Wharf, Dock Road
Attn: Michael Sankus
ME4 4TR Chatham
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. +44 1634332218
E-mail: michael.sankus@medway.gov.uk
Fax +44 1634332862
Internet address(es)
General address of the contracting authority www.medway.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
Regional or local authority
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-Chatham: contract for the provision of tree maintenance services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance
Services
Service category: No 1
Main place of performance Medway.
NUTS code UKJ41
II.1.3) The notice involves
A public contract
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Tender for the provision of tree maintenance service.
Awarding Authority: Medway Council, Regeneration, Community & Culture, Gun
Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham Kent ME4 4TR, UNITED KINGDOM, +44 1634332218.
Medway Council is inviting suitably qualified and experienced companies to
tender for the provision of:
Tree maintenance services including tree pruning, tree felling and stump
removal. The contractor may also be required to undertake tree planting,
hedge maintenance and documented tree inspections.
The service will cover highway sites, municipal parks and open spaces
within the boundaries of the authority. Some of the council's educational
establishments, allotments, country parks, woodlands and countryside
sites, the crematorium, cemeteries and council run residential areas may
also be included.
The contract is expected to start on 1.7.2011 and last 5 years with an
option to extend for up to a further 2 years.
Interested organisations should apply in writing to the address above or
by e-mail to michael.sankus@medway.co.uk for a copy of the
pre-qualification questionnaire for completion and return by no later than
5:00pm on the 13.10.2010.
Tree-maintenance services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
77211500
II.1.8) Division into lots
No
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION
Starting 1.7.2011. Completion 30.6.2016
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
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.
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 3 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.
III.2.3) Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are
met:
Prospective tenderers will be required to complete a pre-qualification
questionnaire that must be returned by no later than 5:00pm on 13.10.2010.
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
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
CPCU/01/10C
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
13.10.2010 - 17:00
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up
English.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
GO reference: GO 10090605/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures
As per details within Section I.1
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
6.9.2010
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