Title
United Kingdom-London: Cleaning services
Publication Date
17 October 2013
OJS Ref
202/2013
Place
LONDON
Country
UK - United Kingdom
Authority Name
BANK OF ENGLAND
Authority Type
Body governed by public law
Deadline
13 November 2013 @ 12 00
Original Language
EN - English
Contract
Service contract
Procedure
Restricted procedure
Document
Contract notice
Regulation
European Communities
CPV Codes
90910000 - Cleaning services
90911000 - Accommodation, building and window cleaning services
NUTS Codes
UKZZ - Extra-Regio
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Full Details
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Bank of England
Procurement, Bank of England, Threadneedle Street
For the attention of: Angela Corsan
EC2R 8AH London
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2076015248
E-mail:
angela.corsan@bankofengland.co.uk Fax: +44 2076015649
Further information can be obtained from: Bank of England
Please register interest via the Banks tendering portal at
www.bankofenglandtenders.co.uk Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained
from: Bank of England
After the expression of interest deadline a PQQ will be issued via the
Banks tendering portal at
www.bankofenglandtenders.co.uk Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Bank of England
The companies that are successful in being pre qualified will be invited
to tender via the Banks tendering portal at
www.bankofenglandtenders.co.uk I.2) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.3) Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
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:
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: Bank
of England- 3 sites at Threadneedle St, London, 20 Moorgate, London,
Langston Road, Loughton, Essex.
NUTS code UKZZ
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)
The Bank of England is seeking expressions of interest from suitably
qualified and experienced organisations who wish to be considered to
tender for a contract to provide staff for cleaning at the Bank of
England's two sites in the City of London and one site in Loughton, Essex.
The value of the contract is estimated at 1 318 000 GBP per annum.
The contract period will be 3 years from 1.3.2014 with the option to
extend for up to two terms of one year extensions.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
90910000, 90911000
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:
Approx 1 318 000 per annum.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 1 318 000 and 6 590 000 GBP (based on 1-5 years).
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 3 965 400 and 6 590 000 GBP
II.2.2) Information about options
Options: no
II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
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 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.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are
met:
See selection criteria detailed in the Pre Qualification documentation
which will be issued after the expression of interest period.
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.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are
met:
See selection criteria detailed in the Pre Qualification documentation
which will be issued after the expression of interest period.
III.2.3) Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements
are met:
(a) 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;
(b) 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 issues 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;
(c) 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;
(d) 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;
(e) 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
capabilities 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;
(f) 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;
(g) for public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in
appropriate cases, and indication of the environmental management measures
that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the
contract;
(h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or
contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years;
(i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to
the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contracts;
(j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services
provider intends possibly to subcontract;
(k) 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 request; (ii) certificates drawn up by official
quality control institutes or agencies of recognized competence attesting
the conformity of products clearly identified by references to
specifications or standards.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are
met:
See selection criteria detailed in the Pre Qualification documentation
which will be issued after the expression of interest period.
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: and maximum number 7
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: See
selection criteria detailed in the Pre Qualification documentation which
will be issued after the expression of interest period.
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.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
AC/254
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: 13.11.2013 - 12:00
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
13.11.2013 - 12:00
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates
3.12.2013
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: yes
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 3-5 Years.
VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures
Bank of England
vincent.townsend@bankofengland.co.uk E-mail:
vincent.townsend@bankofengland.co.uk VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:
15.10.2013