Provision of Air Traffic Control and Airfield Services at Wattisham Flying Station.
Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
DE&S; Commercial, C&C;
HQLF Proc4c, DE&S; Commercial, Building 101, Room 27, Thiepval Barracks
Contact point(s): Proc 4c Commercial Office
BT28 3NP Lisburn
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2892263102
E-mail:
Fax: +44 2892263688
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 20: Supporting and auxiliary transport services
NUTS code UKH14
63732000, 63731000
Range: between 10 000 000 and 20 000 000 GBP
Description of these options: The proposed Contract may be extended at the sole discretion of the Authority for a period or periods up to a maximum of 60 months. The Authority reserves the right to determine how many months may be taken up. If required, this option will be exercised 18 months after commencement of the contract on 1.4.2013.
Provisional timetable for recourse to these options:
in months: 18 (from the award of the contract)
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#dspr.
Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists.Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
Use of a pre-qualification questionnaire.
(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 on these turnovers is available
Use of a pre-qualification questionnaire.
(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 issued 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 capacities 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, an 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 contract
(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 requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards
Use of a pre-qualification questionnaire.
Section IV: Procedure
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: Refer to pre-qualification questionnaire.
Section VI: Complementary information
Suppliers interested in working with the Ministry of Defence should register on the MOD Supplier Information Database (SID) Register, available at www.contracts.mod.uk. The MOD SID is a database of active and potential suppliers available to all MOD and UK Defence procurement personnel, and is the main supplier database of MOD Procurement organisations. Please note: the registration and publication of a company profile on the MOD SID does not mean or imply that the supplier has in any way been vetted or approved by the MOD. Suppliers wishing to compete for advertised MOD contracts must respond to any specific call for competition by submitting a separate expression of interest in accordance with the instructions of the purchasing organisation.
Advertising Regime OJEU:- This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU),the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk.
The electronic Purchase to Payment (P2P) system will be used as the payment mechanism for any contract placed as a result of this tender exercise, operating over the Defence Electronic Commerce Service (DECS). Further information on P2P can be found at http://www.d2btrade.com including MOD's Guidelines for Industry 'e-procurement using Purchase to Payment (P2P)'.
Expressions of Interest must be submitted via e-mail to the Authority (within the time limit specified at Section IV.3.4) and should include the name, postal and e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the designated point of contact within the Economic Operator. Late Expressions of Interest will not be considered. It is the responsibility of the Economic Operator to ensure that their Expression of Interest has been received. Confirmation of receipt should be sought within 2 working days of issue where an Economic Operator has not received an acknowledgement by the Authority.The Authority intends to invite no more than 6 Economic Operators to tender for this requirement and therefore may wish to conduct a pre-qualification exercise to assist in any down selection. Only those Economic Operators that can demonstrate a sufficient level of economic and financial standing and technical or professional ability against the Authority's pre-qualification criteria may be invited to tender. Should more than 6 Economic Operators fulfil the selection criteria, the Authority shall reserve the right to conduct a further down selection. Full details will be made available in any subsequent pre-qualification document set. The Authority reserves the right to seek independent financial and market advice to validate information declared, or to assist in any pre-qualification evaluation.
It is anticipated that TUPE may apply to this requirement. GO Reference: GO-2012619-DCB-4004173.
DE&S; Commercial, DE&S;
HQLF Proc4c, DE&S; Commercial, Building 101, Room 27, Thiepval Barracks
BT28 3NP Lisburn
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:
Telephone: +44 2892263102
Body responsible for mediation procedures
DE&S; Commercial, C&C;
DE&S; Commercial, C&C;