UK-Basildon: Cleaning services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
Basildon Borough Council
The Basildon Centre, St Martins Square, Basildon, SS14 1DL, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1268533333, Email: angela.vine@basildon.gov.uk, URL: WWW.basildon.gov.uk
Contact: Corporate Procurement, Attn: Angela Vine
Electronic Access URL: www.delta-esourcing.com
Electronic Submission URL: www.delta-esourcing.com

Further information can be obtained at: ANNEX A.I

Specifications and additional documents: As Above
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As Above

I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
Regional or local authority

I.3) Main activity:
General Public Services
Housing and community amenities

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: SERVICES
II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: General Needs & Sheltered Housing Accommodation Cleaning Services
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES
Service Category: 14

Region Codes: UKH3 - Essex
II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework or a dynamic purchasing system:The notice involves a public contract

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
Cleaning services. Accommodation cleaning services. Accommodation, building and window cleaning services. Recruitment services.

II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
90910000 - Cleaning services.

90911100 - Accommodation cleaning services.

90911000 - Accommodation, building and window cleaning services.

79600000 - Recruitment services.


II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): Yes
II.1.8)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:
Basildon Borough Council (the "Council") wishes to select a supplier to carry out its General Needs and Sheltered Housing Accommodation Cleaning Services. The comprehensive cleaning services required relate to the internal and external cleaning of all buildings or parts of buildings to the councils housing stock for 458 general needs flat blocks and 47 sheltered schemes. This will include pathways, refuse disposal, drying areas and car park areas that fall within the boundary of the block or scheme.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 4,038,447
Currency: GBP


II.2.2)Options: Not Provided
II.2.3)Information about renewals:
This contract is subject to renewal: Not Provided
II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion
Duration in months: 84 (from the award of the contract)

Information About Lots

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial And Technical Information
III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
Please refer to pre-qualification questionnaire

III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Please refer to pre-qualification questionnaire

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Please refer to PQQ and Tender documents

III.1.4)Other particular conditions:
The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: No
III.2)Conditions For Participation
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.

A full list of these criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr

Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the 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.

III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:
(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 on these turnovers is available.

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Please refer to the pre-qualification questionnaire
Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
Please refer to Pre-quaification questionnaire

III.2.3)Technical capacity
Technical capacity - means of proof required

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Please refer to the tender documents
Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
Please refer to the tender documents
III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts: Not Provided
III.3)Conditions Specific To Service Contracts
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession:
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: No
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service:
Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: 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: 6

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: CP-2013-0077
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Yes
Prior information notice
Notice number in OJEU: 2008/S 130 - 173552 of 04/08/2008

Other previous publications: No

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
Date: 25/03/2014
Time: 12:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: 14/04/2014
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: No
VI.2)Information about European Union funds:
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
VI.3)Additional Information: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.Please note this is not a tender for personnel services, labour recruitment. The Council, in accordance with regulation 39 of 2006 Public Contracts Regulations and the Social Value Act 2012 will require the contractor to actively participate in the achievement of certain social policy objectives, and accordingly, particular contract conditions may relate to social considerations including, e.g. provisions regarding local training initiatives.
Please note the tenderbox will open at 9am Tuesday 18th February 2014.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Basildon:-Cleaning-services./EE3HYC57G5

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/EE3HYC57G5
GO-2014217-PRO-5466903 TKR-2014217-PRO-5466902

VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
Not Provided

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
Not Provided

VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 17/02/2014

ANNEX A
I) Addresses and contact points from which further information can be obtained:
Basildon Borough Council
The Basildon Centre, Basildon, United Kingdom
URL: WWW.Delta-esourcing.com