UK-Stafford: refuse-treatment services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

STAFFORD

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:201213-2008

Publication Date:

Aug 2, 2008

Deadline:

Sept 22, 2008

Buyer:

STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (FOR ITSELF AND ON BEHALF OF WALSALL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL AND WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL AND POTENTIALLY OTHER NEIGHBOURING AND/OR PROXIMAL WASTE DISPOSAL AUTHORITIES).

Original Language:

English

Address:

Web Site:

www.staffordshire.gov.uk/w2rprocurement

Notice Type: 22M0
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 149/2008
, #
201213-2008
Referenced Document Number: 287143-2007
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Competitive dialogue
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Staffordshire County Council
(for itself and on behalf of Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council,
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and Warwickshire County Council and
potentially other neighbouring and/or proximal waste disposal
authorities)., Development Services Department, Riverway, Contact:
projectw2r@staffordshire.gov.uk, Attn: Janet Ellison-Jones, UK-Stafford
ST16 3PJ. Tel. 017 85 85 46 43. E-mail: projectw2r@staffordshire.gov.uk.
Fax 017 85 85 46 60.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
www.staffordshire.gov.uk/w2rprocurement.
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.
Environment.
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:
Project W2R: Provision of Residual Waste Treatment Services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 16, 12.
Main place of performance: Staffordshire.
NUTS code: UKG.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Management,
Treatment and/or Disposal of Residual Waste.
The expected quantity of residual municipal solid waste from the
authorities is estimated to be about 300 000 tonnes per annum for
treatment and about 25 000 tonnes per annum for disposal.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 90121300, 40000000,
45222100, 90315300, 90121310, 65410000, 90121320, 90121330, 90121000,
45220000.
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: This proposed contract is for the
management, treatment and/or disposal of residual waste arising in
Staffordshire, Walsall, Sandwell, Warwickshire (and possibly within the
administrative area of other neighbouring and/or proximal waste disposal
authorities) to divert that waste from landfill.
The reference project comprises the design, construction, financing and
operation of a 300,000 tonnes per annum Energy from Waste (EfW) facility
at a site at Four Ashes on which a planning application has recently been
submitted by Staffordshire County Council (SCC). Participants in the
procurement process will be free to propose alternative sites and SCC
reserves the right to accept a departure from the reference project should
it need or choose to do so.
The successful contractor is expected to be responsible for the design,
building, financing, operation and maintenance of any treatment facility
(or facilities) and the diversion of residual waste from landfill to meet
the objectives of Staffordshire County Council's Joint Municipal Waste
Management Strategy (JMWMS) and to support the Partner Authorities in
diverting biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) from landfill.
The successful contractor will also be responsible for disposing of
treatment residues, marketing of recyclables and energy, and disposing of
some of the residual waste not subject to treatment, as appropriate.
The contract duration will be between 25 years from contract award and 30
years following the end of the construction period. The exact contract
length will be determined through the current procurement process. It is
also anticipated that the contract will include a provision to extend the
contract period by approx. 5 years (subject to section II.3).
It is currently envisaged that transfer facilities will be procured
through separate but coordinated contracts.
Estimated value of the project is 25 million per annum subject to
indexation.
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: It is anticipated that the contract will
include a provision to extend the contract period by approx. 5 years
(subject to section II.3).
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: up to 480 months including any extension period (see II.2.1) (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: A performance bond and/or
parent company guarentee may be required.
Please refer to the procurement documentation.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Please refer to the
procurement documentation.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Please refer to the procurement
documentation.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: Yes.
Please refer to the procurement documentation.
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: As detailed
in the PQQ.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: As detailed in the
Information Memorandum.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As detailed in the
Information Memorandum.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: As detailed in the Information
Memorandum.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As detailed in the
Information Memorandum.
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: Competitive dialogue.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged minimum number: 3. Maximum number: 6
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Technical Criteria - Comprising:
Corporate Responsibility.
Management Systems.
Technical Experience.
Project Experience.
Staff Experience.
Financial Criteria - Comprising:
Financial Solvency and Strength.
Fundraising Ability.
Refer to the Procurement Documents for details of weightings.
IV.1.3) Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or
dialogue: Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of
solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated yes.
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:
W2R (PC172).
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Prior
information notice
Notice number in OJ: 2007/S 236-287143 of 7.12.2007.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive documentTime limit for receipt of requests for documents or
for accessing documents: 15.9.2008 - 17:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
22.9.2008 - 10:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Persons authorised to be present
at the opening of tenders: no.
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: Estimated value of the project is 25
million per annum subject to indexation.
Provisional PFI credits have been secured for the project from the
Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). It is
therefore anticipated that a final business case for the project will need
to be approved by DEFRA prior to contract award.
A bidders conference will be held on 4th September 2008. Please refer to
procurement documentation for further details.
Staffordshire County Council Website links includes:
http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/environment/rubbishwasteandrecycling/
wastestrategy/projectw2rwastetorecyclingresidualwastetreatmentfacility/
Joint Municipal Waste Strategy:
http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/environment/rubbishwasteandrecycling/
wastestrategy/
Project W2R (Counter Context Website).
http://www.staffsprojectw2r.info/.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: UK-.
Body responsible for mediation procedures:
UK-.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: This authority will incorporate a minimum ten (10)
calendar day standstill period at the point when information on the award
of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows
unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting
authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have two (2)
working days from the notification of the award decision to request
additional debriefing. Such information has to be provided a minimum of
three (3) working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such
additional information should be requested from (please refer to the named
person in the address in part 1.1).
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract is not successfully
resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) 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). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within three
(3) months). Where a contract has not been entered into the Court may
order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to
amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered
into the Court may only award damages. The purpose of the standstill
period referred to above is to allow parties to apply to the Courts to set
aside the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may
be obtained: UK-.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 31.7.2008.

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