Support Services Related to Working with Overhead Power Lines.
Contract notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
Natural Resources Wales
Welsh Government Building, Rhodfa Padarn
Contact point(s): Procurement
For the attention of: Alison Subacchi
SY23 3UR Aberystwyth
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 3000680334
E-mail:
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0110
Further information can be obtained from: Natural Resources Wales
Welsh Government Building, Rhodfa Padarn
Contact point(s): Procurement
For the attention of: Melanie Rodda
SY23 3UR Aberystwyth
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 3000680334
E-mail:
Internet address: www.naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: Natural Resources Wales
Welsh Government Building, Rhodfa Padarn
Contact point(s): Procurement
For the attention of: Melanie Rodda
SY23 3UR Aberystwyth
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 3000680334
E-mail:
Internet address: www.naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Natural Resources Wales
Welsh Government Building, Rhodfa Padarn
Contact point(s): Procurement
For the attention of: Melanie Rodda
SY23 3UR Aberystwyth
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 3000680334
E-mail:
Internet address: www.naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
Recreation, culture and religion
Other: Forestry
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 12: Architectural services; engineering services and integrated engineering services; urban planning and landscape engineering services; related scientific and technical consulting services; technical testing and analysis services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Wales.
NUTS code UK
Contract areas will be split into 2 lots, covering North and South Wales:
Lot 1 - Zone 1: Coed y Mynydd and Coed y Gororau Forest Districts (North Wales).
Lot 2 - Zone 2: Llanymddyfri Forest District and Coed y Cymoedd Forest District (South Wales).
You may bid for one or more lots but you must demonstrate that you have the capacity to deliver the requirements of the contract for all the lots that you bid for.
Our intention is to award the contract(s) for a period of 3 years. The anticipated start date is February 2014
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=2227
77230000, 45232200, 77200000
Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 300 000 and 400 000 GBP
Description of these options: Our intention is to award the contract(s) for a period of 3 years.
Break points are available within the contract(s) at annual intervals at which time we will decide on whether the contract(s) will continue.
The decision on whether to use the break points or any or all of the extension options available will be at our discretion and we will base it on the following factors:
Performance; budget.
Information about lots
Lot No: 1 Lot title: Zone 1 - North Wales77230000, 45232200, 77200000
77230000, 45232200, 77200000
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Description of particular conditions: see tender document
(2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process.
(3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession.
(4) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of their business or profession.
(5) All candidates must comply with the requirements of the State in which they are established, regarding registration on the professional or trade register.
(6) Any candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to continue with this procurement process.
(7) All candidates will have to demonstrate that they are licensed, or a member of the relevant organisation, in the State where they are established, when the law of that State prohibits the provision of the services, described in this notice, by a person who is not so licensed or who is not a member of the relevant organisation.
(8) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the candidate is established
(9) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes under the law of any part of the United Kingdom or of the relevant State in which the economic operator is established.
(2) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice.
(3) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.
the bidder is established.
see tender documents
Section IV: Procedure
Section VI: Complementary information
First Aid;
Certificate of competence in Chainsaw operations;
NPTC Arboricultural Works within Proximity Zone of Overhead Lines up to and including 400kV Unit 1 Electrical Hazard Awareness (or equivalent).
(WA Ref:2227)
Natural Resources Wales
FAO: Mr Kevin Ingram, Ty Cambria, 29 Newport Road
CF24 0TP Cardiff
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:
Telephone: +44 3000653001
Internet address: www.naturalresourceswales.co.uk
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
12 Bloomsbury Square
WCA1A 2LP London
UNITED KINGDOM