Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): York Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust, Purchasing Department, Tribune House, Tribune Way, Clifton Moor,
Attn: Mrs Victoria Wells, UK-York YO30 4RY. Tel. +44 1904725471. E-mail:
victoria.wells@york.nhs.uk. Fax +44 1904721667.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
www.yorkhealthservices.org/.
Further information 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:
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:
UK-York: window 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: York.
NUTS code: UKE21.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): York Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust invite expressions of interest from suitably
qualified and experienced window cleaning service providers to provide a
full cleaning service (internal/ external including frames and cills) to
York Hospital and some small satellite units. Internal cleaning will
require infection control policies to be rigorously upheld. external
cleaning will involve specialist apparatus to safely ascend buildings of
up to 5 stories high. Work will include height and public area
restrictions and will be subject to health and safety legislation. method
statements will be required. Window-cleaning services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 90911300.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.
Division into lots: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: Internal windows INC frames and cills.
External windows INC frames, cills and rooflights.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 72 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
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: No.
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: (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;
(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 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 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.
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 number of operators 12
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: Through
the issue of a 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.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
VW/09/1004.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Prior
information notice
Notice number in OJ: 08/S 186-246391/EN of 25.9.2008.
Other previous publications
Notice number in OJ: 09/S 46-065765 of 7.3.2009.
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:
17.4.2009 - 17:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 4.6.2009.
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: Yes.
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: March 2013 or March
2015 if options to extend are taken.
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The initial contract will be for a 4-year
period with options to extend for two further 12-month periods.
GO reference: GO 09031118/01.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 11.3.2009.