SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S)
Contour Housing Group Ltd.
Quay Plaza 2 1st floor - Lowry Mall Salford Quays
Attn: Stephen Everitt
M50 3AH Salford
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. +44 8456021120
E-mail:
stephen.everitt@contourhousing.co.ukFax +44 1618758200
Internet address(es)
General address of the contracting authority
http://www.contourhousing.co.ukAddress of the buyer profile
http://www.contourhousing.co.uk/?appid=2990Further information can be obtained at: Cirrus Purchasing
8 Silverbeech road, Wallasey
Attn: Nathan Whittaker
CH44 9BT Wirral
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. +44 7572108323
E-mail:
nwhittaker@cirruspurchasing.co.ukInternet:
https://Cirrus-Tenders.co.uk/Home.aspx?Link=[ee673093-f6e3-4c36-b2d2-185be34e76ff]
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
Cirrus Purchasing
8 Silverbeech road, Wallasey
Attn: Nathan Whittaker
CH44 9BT Wirral
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. +44 7572108323
E-mail:
nwhittaker@cirruspurchasing.co.ukInternet:
https://Cirrus-Tenders.co.uk/Home.aspx?Link=[ee673093-f6e3-4c36-b2d2-185be34e76ff]
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Cirrus Purchasing
8 Silverbeech road, Wallasey
Attn: Nathan Whittaker
CH44 9BT Wirral
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel. +44 7572108323
E-mail:
nwhittaker@cirruspurchasing.co.ukInternet:
https://Cirrus-Tenders.co.uk/Home.aspx?Link=[ee673093-f6e3-4c36-b2d2-185be34e76ff]
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES
Body governed by public law
Housing and community amenities
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
Cleaning services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance
Services
Service category: No 14
Main place of performance North West of England.
NUTS code UKD
II.1.3) The notice involves
The establishment of a framework agreement
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement
Framework agreement with several operators
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged 8
Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 4
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the
framework agreement
estimated cost excluding VAT
Range: between 1 167 680,00 and 1 599 660,00 GBP
Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded: 2 year contracts
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The supply of internal communal cleaning and window cleaning services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
90910000, 90911000, 90911200, 90911300
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
Yes
II.1.
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
The supply of internal communal cleaning and window cleaning services to
around 250 schemes managed by Contour Homes (but may also include work for
other subsidiaries of Contour Housing Group or partner organisations).
Services will be predominantly, but not exclusively, required to be
provided to low rise rented accommodation (3 storey and below) and will be
a mixture of general let accommodation, sheltered housing and supported
housing schemes.
The following Lots are included in the Framework:
Lot 1 – Central Region approx value £170K pa.
Stockport 29 schemes.
Manchester 17.
Cheshire 17.
Salford 13.
Trafford 7.
Merseyside/Wirral 5.
Lot 2 – East Region approx value 70K pa.
Oldham 8.
Tameside 12.
Rochdale 29.
LOT 3 – North Region approx value £48K pa.
Bolton 28.
Bury 8.
LOT 4 – Lancashire Region approx value £55K.
Preston 8.
Blackburn 5.
Lancaster 1.
Excluding VAT
Range between 1 167 680,00 and 1 599 660,00 GBP
II.2.2) Options
No
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION
Duration in months: 48 (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
The right to require the provision of appropriate guarantees, bonds,
parent company guarantees, warranties and insurances is reserved.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them
Payment arrangements as per information provided in the ITT Document.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded
Grouping of economic operators may be required to form a single legal
entity for the contracting organisation to contract with.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject
Yes
Bidders who satisfy any of the criteria for rejection set out in
Regulation 23(1) Public Contract Regulations 2009 shall be treated as
ineligible. Bidders maybe requested to provide such evidence as it is
reasonably necessary to allow the Authority to establish that the
aforementioned criteria does not apply to them.
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: Any supplier may be disqualified who:
(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;
8/10 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:
Evidence, experience and expertise in the communal cleaning contract.
Evidence, experience and expertise in the Window cleaning contract.
A statement of your average annual manpower and the number of managerial
staff for the past three years.
"your experience of working in the Social Housing Sector, indicating what
specific experience your organisation has had of working in a contract
arrangement with a RSL or other Housing Management organisation.
Your experience of direct involvement in resident satisfaction and working
with tenant groups and housing scheme managers;
Examples of the level of customer satisfaction and performance achieved
against agreed KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) and/or service level
agreements (SLA).
Examples of promoting racial equality in the way you provide services and
where relevant in employment practices.
Your experience of TUPE, Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of
Employment) Regulations and identify the number of staff affected by TUPE
into and out of your organisation in the last 3 years.
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
Restricted
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate
Envisaged minimum number 6 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
2010/026/CS/LS
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
No
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing
documents 3.1.2011
Payable documents No
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
4.1.2011 - 12:00
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates
21.1.2011
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
Yes
estimated timing for further notices to be published: 4 years
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS
No
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Contour Housing Group will incorporate a minimum 10-calendar-day
standstill period at the point information of the award of the contract is
communicated to Tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful Tenderers to
seek further debriefing from Contour Housing Group before the contract is
entered into. Tenderers 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.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully
resolved, the Public Contracts (Amedment) Regulations 2009 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).
Contour Housing Group reserve the right not to award any contract or any
Lot within the contract and to terminate the procurement at any stage.
The Group shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by those
expressing an interest in tendering for this contract. Any agreement
entered into will be governed by English Law and will be subject to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
25.11.2010