Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Bolton Council
Corporate Procurement, 4th Floor, Paderborn House
For the attention of: Mrs Ann Butler - Business Manager
BL1 1JW Bolton
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1942850072
E-mail:
AButler890@westhoughton-high.bolton.sch.ukInternet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
www.bolton.gov.ukFurther information can be obtained from: Westhoughton High School
Ann Butler Business Manager Westhoughton High School Westhoughton
BL5 3BZ Bolton
Telephone: +44 1942850072
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained
from: The Chest
Internet address:
www.thechest.nwce.gov.ukI.2) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.3) Main activity
General public services
I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
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:
Westhoughton High School - Provision of Cleaning Services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance
Services
Service category No 14: Building-cleaning services and property management
services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Westhoughton High School.
Westhoughton.
Bolton.
BL5 3BZ.
NUTS code UKD32
II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a
dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
The notice involves a public contract
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Westhoughton High School wishes to appoint a suitably qualified and
experienced company to undertake the cleaning provision, as detailed in
the attached specification. It is anticipated that this will commence in
July 2012, for a period of 2 years, with option to extend for a further 1
year.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
90910000
II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no
II.1.
Lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.1.9) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: no
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:
Westhoughton High School wishes to appoint a suitably qualified and
experienced company to undertake the cleaning provision, as detailed in
the attached specification.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 214 000 GBP
II.2.2) Information about options
Options: no
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Duration in months: 24 (from the award of the contract)
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract
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 the 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 compulsory winding up the 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 contract 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
organization, 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 ability
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the 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 of these turnovers is available.
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) Information about electronic auction
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
Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing
documents: 14.2.2012 - 16:00
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
14.2.2012 - 16:00
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates
14.2.2012
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up
English.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: no
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The Borough
Council of Bolton will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill
period at the point information on the award 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 & that information has to be provided a minimum of 3
working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional
information is available as dictated in I.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. Any such action must be
brought promptly (generally within 3 months).
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:
10.1.2012
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC