UK-Hove: tank-cleaning services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

HOVE

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:309033-2008

Publication Date:

Nov 28, 2008

Deadline:

Jan 5, 2009

Buyer:

BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL

Original Language:

English

Address:

BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL
HOVE , Brighton and Hove
United Kingdom

Web Site:

www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/procurement

Notice Type: 2220
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 232/2008
, #
309033-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not defined
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Brighton & Hove City Council,
Kings House, Grand Avenue, Contact: Lauren Smith, UK-Hove BN3 2SR. Tel.
(44-1273) 29 50 64. E-mail: lauren.smith@brighton-hove.gov.uk. Fax
(44-1273) 29 12 47.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/procurement.
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-Hove: water storage and distribution: safety, service and maintenance.
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: Brighton & Hove.
NUTS code: UKJ21.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Contracting
Authority has identified the need for a major programme of inspection,
risk assessment, overhaul and refurbishment to be undertaken to the water
supplies and storage tanks to approximately 12 287 dwellings (of which 63
% are flats) in Brighton and Hove. Works to individual dwellings are
likely to be restricted to a sample survey and risk assessment. The
contract will concentrate on maintaining clean and safe water services to
properties with communal water supply services.
Brighton & Hove City Council is therefore seeking expressions of interest
from innovative and suitably resourced, qualified and experienced
contractors to carry out a programme of inspections and risk assessment,
cleaning and maintenance, capital replacement and to take responsibility
for responsive repairs to water supplies and water storage tanks.
The successful contractor will be required to enter into the ACA Standard
Form of Contract for Term Partnering (TPC2005) with a term of 10 years
with break clauses at years, 3, 6 and 9.
Water plumbing work.Water installations.Water plumbing work.Consulting
services for water-supply and waste consultancy.Water distribution and
related services.Water tanks.Water pumps.Pipes and fittings.Drinking-water
piping.Repair and maintenance services of tanks.Repair and maintenance
services of valves.Installation services of tanks.Tank-cleaning
services.Drinking-water piping.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 90913100, 71800000,
50514100, 44611500, 42122130, 50512000, 44162500, 45332200, 44163000,
65100000, 39370000, 51810000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: To provide inspection, testing and
maintenance of water services to comply with Health and Safety Executives
Approved Code of Practice and Guidance. Document L8. This includes survey,
asset report and risk assessment of approximately 200 sites, providing
cleaning, maintenance, water sampling and testing, corrosion inhibitors
and biocides as required and tabulating relevant data, repairs and capital
replacements to communal water tanks at approximately 150 sites. The
contract will include the provision of out-of-hours and emergency
responsive repairs. It is intended that the contracts be capable of being
used by all group members and all social landlords with stock in the areas
set out in section II.1.2 of this Notice.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 1 500 000 and 2 500 000 GBP.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 120 (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: Details of the deposits and
bonds required by the Contracting Authority will be set out in the Tender
Documents.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Details of the main
terms and conditions of financing and payment will be set out in the
contract documents.
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: Yes.
Under the contracts, the contractors and service providers and any supply
chain will be required to actively participate in the achievement of
social and/or environmental policy objectives relating to training and
supply chain initiatives. Accordingly, the contract performance conditions
may relate in particular to social and environmental conditions.
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: All
applicants will be asked to confirm in a pre-qualification questionnaire
that none of the conditions set down in Article 45 of EC Directive
2004/18/EC apply to their organisation or expression of interest.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Applicants will be
required to complete a pre-qualification questionnaire consistent with the
provisions of Directive 2004/18/EC. The questionnaire is available from
the correspondence address in I above and must be returned to that address
by the date stipulated in IV 3.4.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Minimum turnover must be
greater than four times the estimated total annual contract value.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: Applicants will be required to
complete a pre-qualification questionnaire consistent with the provisions
of Directive 2004/18/EC. The questionnaire is available from the
correspondence address in I above and must be returned to that address by
the date stipulated in IV3.4.
Minimum levels of insurance and other technical standards will be set out
in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Minimum levels of
insurance and other technical standards will be 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.
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
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
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As set
out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
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
or descriptive document: Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
5.1.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 19.1.2009.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
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: The Contracting Authority reserves the
right to cancel the procurement and not to proceed with the process at any
time. The Contracting Authority also reserves the right not to award, or
to award a contract for part or parts of the works only.
Further, applicants should note that during the life of the contract some
of the Contracting Authority's stock may be transferred to a local
delivery vehicle, which will therefore also have the benefit of the
contract. Further details will be included in the Invitation to Tender
documents.
GO reference: GO 08112631/01.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 26.11.2008.

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