SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Northamptonshire Healthcare
NHS Trust, St Mary'S Hospital, Sudborough House, London Road, UK-Kettering
NN15 7PW. Tel. 015 36 49 44 33.
Further information can be obtained at: Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS
Trust, Princess Marina Hospital, Upton, Attn: Cathy Headland - Logistics
Manager, UK-Northampton NN5 6UH. Tel. 016 04 59 53 73. E-mail:
cathy.headland@nht.northants.nhs.uk. Fax 016 04 59 51 01.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Princess Marina Hospital, Upton,
Attn: Cathy Headland - Logistics Manager, UK-Northampton NN5 6UH. Tel. 016
04 59 53 73. E-mail:
cathy.headland@nht.northants.nhs.uk. Fax 016 04 59 51
01.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Northamptonshire
Healthcare NHS Trust, Princess Marina Hospital, Upton, Attn: Cathy
Headland- Logistics Manager, UK-Northampton NN5 6UH. Tel. 016 04 59 53 73.
E-mail:
cathy.headland@nht.northants.nhs.uk. Fax 016 04 59 51 01.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Body governed by public law.
Health.
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:
Window Cleaning Service.
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: Northamptonshire.
NUTS code: UKF23.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Provision of a
window cleaning service to a mixture of NHS Properties.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 90911300.
II.1.
Division into lots: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: Provision of a complete window cleaning
service to include high level windows and internal glass partitions.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 60 (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: Guarantees may be required.
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.
Contractors are required to perform to relevant regulations and
legislation prevailing during the lifetime of 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 requirements are met: Any supplier
may be disqualified who: a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, whose
affairs are being administered by the court, who has entered into an
arrangement with creditors or who 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 for an arrangement
with creditors or is the subject of any other similar proceedings under
national laws or regulations; c) has been convicted of an offence
concerning his professional conduct by a judgement which has the force of
res judicata; d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven
by any means which the contracting authorities can justify; 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 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 those of the country of the contracting authority g) is
guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required
under the provisions of the Directive on the criteria for qualitative
selection; It is preferred that all information be provided via the NHS
Purchasing Supply Agency Information Database (SID) If you have done this
then please advise in tender offer pack.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: a) appropriate
statements from bankers; b) the submission of the firm’s balance sheets or
extracts there from, where publication of a balance sheet is required
under company law in the country in which the supplier is established; c)
a statement of the firm’s overall turnover and its turnover in respect of
the goods to which the contract relates for the previous three financial
years. It is preferred that all information be provided via the NHS
Purchasing Supply Agency Information Database (SID) If you have done this
then please advise in tender offer pack.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: a) a list of the principal deliveries
effected in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients,
public or private, involved: in the case of public contracting
authorities, evidence to be in the form of certificates issued or
countersigned by the competent authority; in the case of private
purchasers, delivery to be certified by the purchaser or, failing this,
simply declared by the supplier to have been effected; b) a description of
the firm’s technical facilities, its measures for ensuring quality and its
study and research facilities; c) indication of the technicians or
technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the
supplier’s firm, especially those responsible for quality control; d)
certificates drawn up by official quality-control institutes or agencies
of recognized competence attesting conformity to certain specifications or
standards of products clearly identified by references to specifications
or standards; indications of arrangement for quality checks on the
supplier’s premises; e) where the goods to be supplied are complex or,
exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by
the contracting authority or on its behalf by a competent official body of
the country in which the supplier is established, subject to that body’s
agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier and, if necessary,
on his study and research facilities and quality control measures It is
preferred that all information be provided via the NHS Purchasing Supply
Agency Information Database (SID) If you have done this then please advise
in tender offer pack.
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: Restricted.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged minimum number: 5.
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:
NH-08-T9 CH.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
16.1.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 14.11.2008.