UK-London: operation of sports, leisure and related facilities

Request For Proposals

UK-London: operation of sports, leisure and related facilities

2220 - Contract notice

General Information

Country:    United Kingdom
Deadline for Responses:   May 6, 2004
Regulation of Procurement:   European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication:   #60294-2004 in 71/ issue
Publication Date:   Apr 9, 2004
Awarding Authority:   SPORT ENGLAND AND THE LONDON DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, LONDON
Contract Nature:   Service contract
Procedure Type:   Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required:   Global tender
Awarding Criteria:   The most economic tender
Original Language(s):   English
Abstract:   Operation of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. The operation of sports, leisure and related facilities for a period of up to four and a half years on a part-repairing and insuring basis, including incidental equipping and refurbishment of the center in accordance with a specified preventative planned maintenance schedule. CPV: 92610000, 92600000, 92621000, 92622000, 55520000, 50700000, 55100000, 74610000, 74700000, 90120000, 30000000, 74400000, 74224000.

Goods, Works and Services
Regions:  
  • UK550 - GREATER LONDON
Commodities:  

Summary
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
This contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) Official name and address of the contracting authority: Sport
England and the London Development Agency, Att: Ewan Shinton, 3rd Floor,
Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, UK-London WC1B 4SE. Tel.: 00 44 207
273 1500. Fax: 00 44 207 273 1513. E-mail: ewan.shinton@sportengland.org.
URL: http://www.sportengland.org.
I.2) Address from which further information can be obtained: Lovells,
Att: Andrew Skipper, Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct, UK-London EC1A 2FG.
Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7296 2000. Fax: +44 (0) 20 7296 2001. E-mail:
andrew.skipper@lovells.com.
I.3) Address from which documentation may be obtained: Lovells, Att:
Andrew Skipper, Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct, UK-London EC1A 2FG.
Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7296 2000. Fax: +44 (0) 20 7296 2001. E-mail:
crystalpalace@lda.gov.uk. URL: www.lda.gov.uk.
I.4) Address to which tenders/requests to participate must be sent:
Lovells, Att: Andrew Skipper, Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct, UK-London
EC1A 2FG. Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7296 2000. Fax: +44 (0) 20 7296 2001. E-mail:
crystalpalace@lda.gov.uk. URL: www.lda.gov.uk.
I.5) Type of contracting authority: Body governed by public law.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) Description
II.1.3) Type of service contract Service category: 26.
II.1.4) Framework agreement: No.
II.1.5) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Operation of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.
II.1.6) Description/object of the contract: The operation of sports,
leisure and related facilities for a period of up to four and a half
years on a part-repairing and insuring basis, including incidental
equipping and refurbishment of the center in accordance with a specified
preventative planned maintenance schedule.
II.1.7) Site or location of works, place of delivery or performance:
Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, London, England.
NUTS code: UK550.
II.1.8) Nomenclature
II.1.8.1) Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV): 92610000, 92600000,
92621000, 92622000, 55520000, 50700000, 55100000, 74610000, 74700000,
90120000, 30000000, 74400000, 74224000.
II.1.8.2) Other relevant nomenclature (CPA/NACE/CPC): CPC: 96411, 96412,
96413, 96419, 64220, 64230, 64310, 87305, 87309, 87403, 87409, 94020,
87120, 64110,
86601.
II.1.9) Division into lots: No.
II.1.10) Will variants be accepted: No.
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The contract duration will be a period
of up to four and a half years. The turnover of the contract will be in
the region of 1 500 000 GBP per annum. The contracting authority may
require the contractor to take advantage of an option to buy, and make
available for use at the Crystal Palace site, general assets owned by the
incumbent supplier.
II.2.2) Options. Description and time when they may be exercised: Not
applicable.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: The Contracting Authorities
reserve the right to request deposits, guarantees, a performance bond,
parent company guarantee or other forms of appropriate security.
III.1.2) Main terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the
relevant provisions: The contractor will be expected to take a specified
income and expenditure risk and to agree arrangements for sharing in any
profits. The operation is intended to be based on an index linked net
deficit/surplus guarantee basis within specified parameters although
other forms of financing may be considered.
Other than as required by the agreed planned preventative maintenance
programme or the potential requirement to buy general assets for use at
the site, the contractor is not required to invest any capital or be
responsible for National Non Domestic Rates payments.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers,
contractors or service providers to whom the contract is awarded: The
Contracting Authorities are seeking a lead contractor or similar type
arrangement. A consortium tender is acceptable.
III.2) Conditions for participation
III.2.1) Information concerning the personal situation of the
contractor, supplier or service provider and information and formalities
necessary for the evaluation of the minimum economic, financial and
technical capacity required:
III.2.1.1) Legal position - means of proof required: Confirmation that
none of the criteria for rejection stated in regulation 14 of the Public
Services Contracts Regulations 1993 apply.
In addition, please complete the questionnaire, available at
crystalpalace@lda.gov.uk (if you experience any technological problems
with this e-mail address, the questionnaire is also available on the
London Development Agency's website). Completed questionnaires must be
returned by the date for receipt of expressions of interest, i.e.
6.5.2004.
III.2.1.2) Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:
(1) A reference from the bidder's bankers.
(2) Presentation of the bidder's balance sheets or extracts from the
balance sheets.
(3) A statement of the bidder's overall turnover and the turnover related
to similar activities covered by this contract, for the three previous
financial years.
In addition, please complete the questionnaire, available at
crystalpalace@lda.gov.uk (if you experience any technological problems
with this e-mail address, the questionnaire is also available on the
London Development Agency's website). Completed questionnaires must be
returned by the date for receipt of expressions of interest, i.e.6.5.2004.
III.2.1.3) Technical capacity - means of proof required: 1) A statement
of the educational and professional qualifications of the bidder's
managerial staff and of those persons who will be responsible for
carrying out the contract requirements.
(2) A list of the principal deliveries of similar services effected by
the bidder in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients,
public or private, involved: (1) where effected to public authorities,
evidence to be in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the
competent authority; (2) where effected to private purchasers, delivery
to be certified by the purchaser or, failing this, simply declared by the
supplier to have been effected.
In addition, please complete the questionnaire, available at
crystalpalace@lda.gov.uk (if you experience any technological problems
with this e-mail address, the questionnaire is also available on the
London Development Agency's website). Completed questionnaires must be
returned by the date for receipt of expressions of interest, i.e.
6.5.2004.
III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts
III.3.1) Provision of the service is reserved to a specific profession:
No.
III.3.2) Legal entities required to state the names and professional
qualifications of the personnel responsible for execution of the
contract: No.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.1.1) Candidates already selected: No.
IV.1.4) Envisaged number of suppliers which will be invited to tender:
Minimum: 5 - Maximum: 6.
IV.2) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in terms
of:
Criteria as stated in contract documents.
IV.3) Administrative information
IV.3.1) Reference number attributed to the file by the contracting
authority: CPNSC1.
IV.3.3) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 37
days from dispatch of notice.
IV.3.4) Dispatch of invitations to tender to selected candidates:
Estimated date: 17.5.2004.
IV.3.5) Language or languages in which tenders or requests to
participate can be drawn up: English.
SECTION VI: OTHER INFORMATION
VI.1) Non-mandatory notice: Yes.
VI.2) Indication whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the
estimated timing for further notices to be published: Not applicable.
VI.3) The contract relates to a project/programme financed by EU funds:
No.
VI.4) Additional information: The London Development Agency has the
option to take a long-term lease from Bromley Borough Council for the
entire Crystal Palace Park.
The London Development Agency currently wishes to keep the sports site
(the stadium, sports center and accommodation) open whilst they consider
their options for the entire Crystal Palace Park.
Sport England has renewed its lease for the whole sports site with
Bromley Borough Council to cover the period April 2004 - March 2006.
After March 2006, Sport England's interests in the Crystal Palace
National Sports Centre with Bromley Borough Council will fall away, with
a new lease being granted to the London Development Agency. The contract
will stipulate that Sport England will have no liability in respect of
any period after its lease expires.
The London Development Agency and Sport England will enter into the
contract for the operation of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
on the basis that Sport England will be primarily responsible in the
first eighteen months; thereafter the London Development Agency will take
full responsibility for running the contract.
The address for the London Development Agency is: Devon House, 58-60 St
Katherine's Way, UK-London E1W 1JX. Website: http://www.lda.gov.uk.
However, for further information and additional documentation etc, please
see I.2, I.3 and I.4.
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion: Starting
around 1.10.2004 and up to a maximum duration of four and a half years
i.e. 25.3.2009, the contract may include various options to break.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 30.3.2004.