UK-Northampton: sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

NORTHAMPTON

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:215605-2008

Publication Date:

Sept 26, 2008

Deadline:

Oct 7, 2008

Buyer:

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Original Language:

English

Address:

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
NORTHAMPTON , Northamptonshire
United Kingdom

Web Site:

www.northamptonshire.gov.uk

Notice Type: 2210
-
Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 159/2008
, #
215605-2008
Referenced Document Number: 40600-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
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): Northamptonshire County
Council, County Hall, PO Box 163, Contact: Waste Management Team, Attn:
Sue Payne, UK-Northampton NN1 1AX. Tel. 016 04 23 72 66. E-mail:
spayne@northamptonshire.gov.uk. Fax 016 04 23 73 31.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.northamptonshire.gov.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: www.sourcenorthamptonshire.co.uk.
Further information can be obtained at: Northamptonshire County Council,
County Hall, PO Box 163, Contact: Waste Management Team, Attn: Chris
Baker, UK-Northampton NN1 1AX. Tel. 016 04 23 69 94. E-mail:
cbaker@northamptonshire.gov.uk. Fax 016 04 23 73 31. URL:
www.sourcenorthamptonshire.co.uk.
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-Northamptonshire: renewable energy from waste wood.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 16.
Main place of performance: Northamptonshire, but may also include other
Local Authorities in the East Midlands region.
NUTS code: UKF23.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) has 10 household waste recycling
centres (HWRCs) that receive domestic waste, a part of which includes
waste wood of various types.
NCC is looking to procure a more sustainable solution for this waste wood,
as an alternative to landfill. Through this contract NCC is seeking to
ensure the production of renewable energy from the Waste Wood, either
through a contractors provision and operation of a dedicated facility or a
contractors delivery of the Waste Wood to a third-party facility. These
operations may be eligible for Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs).
There is also a possibility that additional waste wood may be available
for processing from other sources, such as commercial waste, during the
anticipated contract term.
Sewage- and refuse-disposal services, sanitation and environmental
services. General waste services. Refuse services. Refuse-treatment
services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 90000000, 90121000,
90121300, 90120000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
No.
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: Overall Service Objectives: The
contractor shall perform the service in accordance with all of the
requirements set out in the specification and the contractors proposals.
The contractor shall: 1) Work in partnership with the Council and the HWRC
contractors to support them in achieving the necessary diversion from
landfill of waste wood deposited at the Council's HWRCs. 2) Ensure that
waste wood processed under this contract is utilised to produce renewable
energy. Scope of Service The Contractor shall: 3) Provide a central
Delivery Point, either providing the Delivery Point themselves or agreeing
the use of an existing Delivery Point (whether owned by the Council or a
third party), for the Council, or its nominated HWRC Contractors, to take
all deposited Waste Wood from the Council's HWRCs. 4) Ensure the
production of renewable energy from the Waste Wood, either through the
provision and operation of a dedicated facility or the delivery of the
Waste Wood to a third-party facility. 5) Provide, in relation to the
Services an effective management control system including quality
assurance systems, partnership arrangements, performance tests, monitoring
and reporting arrangements and Council access. 6) Support the Council in
the promotion of its renewable energy initiative using Waste Wood in
Northamptonshire. 7) Comply with the Northamptonshire Joint Municipal
Waste Management Strategy (January 2008) to extent that it is relevant to
the Services.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
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 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.
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.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: (a) (i) 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; (ii) 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;
(b) 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;
(c) 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;
(d) 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;
(e) 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;
(f) 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;
(g) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or
contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years;
(h) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to
the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;
(i) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services
provider intends possibly to subcontract;
(j) 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.
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: Open.
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: Prior
information notice
Notice number in OJ: 2008/S 30-040600 of 8.2.2008.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive documentPayable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
22.9.2008 - 12:00.
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 08081518/01.
VI.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Head of Procurement,
County Hall, UK-Northampton NN1 1AN. E-mail:
pwhite@northamptonshire.gov.uk. Tel. 016 04 23 54 65.
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for
lodging appeals: NCC will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill
period at the point 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 2 working days from the notification of
the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information
has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the
standstill period. Such additional information should be required from the
address in part 1.1.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been 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 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.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 15.8.2008.

Update: Aug 22, 2008

Notice Type: 8098
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 162/2008
, #
218081-2008
Referenced Document Number: 215605-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Northamptonshire County Council, County Hall, PO Box 163, attn: Sue Payne,
UK-NN1 1AX Northampton. Tel. 016 04 23 72 66. E-mail:
spayne@northamptonshire.gov.uk. Fax 016 04 23 73 31.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 19.08.2008,
2008/S 159-215605)
RE: CPV: 90000000, 90121000, 90121300, 90120000.
Sewage and refuse-disposal services, sanitation and environmental
services.Instead of: IV.3.4): 22.9.2008 (12:00).
Read: IV.3.4): 30.9.2008 (12:00).
Other additional information:
GO reference: GO 08081934/01.

Update: Sept 26, 2008

Notice Type: 8098
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 187/2008
, #
246527-2008
Referenced Document Number: 215605-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Northamptonshire County Council, County Hall, PO Box 163, attn: Sue Payne,
UK-NN1 1AX Northampton. Tel. 016 04 23 72 66. E-mail:
spayne@northamptonshire.gov.uk. Fax 016 04 23 73 31.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 19.08.2008,
2008/S 159-215605)
RE: CPV: 90000000, 90510000, 90513000, 90500000.
sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental servicesInstead of: IV.3.4):
22.9.2008 (12:00).
Read: IV.3.4):
7.10.2008 (12:00).
Other additional information:
GO reference: GO 08092329/01.

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