Equality and Human Rights Commission has published this notice through Delta eSourcing
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Title: | Human rights based education resources in the health & social care sectors |
Notice type: | Contract Notice |
Authority: | Equality and Human Rights Commission |
Nature of contract: | Services |
Procedure: | Open |
Short Description: | Human rights in health and social care: to develop new innovative educational resources, to encourage knowledge development and implementation of human rights based approaches to service delivery in the health and social care sector. Our requirement is for 12-15 individual resources of this type. |
Published: | 22/07/2014 16:57 |
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Section I: Contracting Authority
I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
Equality & Human Rights Commission
Arndale House, Arndale Centre, Manchester, M4 3AQ, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1618298100, Fax. +44 1618298110, Email: tenders@equalityhumanrights.com, URL: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/, URL: http://equalityhumanrights.g2b.info/cgi-gen/profile.pl?action=view_profile&oid=6246
Contact: Hywyn Pritchard, Attn: Hywyn Pritchard
Electronic Access URL: http://equalityhumanrights.g2b.info/cgi-gen/profile.pl?action=view_profile&oid=6246
Further information can be obtained at: As Above
Specifications and additional documents: As Above
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As Above
I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions
I.3) Main activity:
Social protection
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: Human rights based education resources in the health & social care sectors
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES
Service Category: 25
Region Codes: UK - UNITED KINGDOM
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:
Guidance services. Health training services. Human rights in health and social care: to develop new innovative educational resources, to encourage knowledge development and implementation of human rights based approaches to service delivery in the health and social care sector. Our requirement is for 12-15 individual resources of this type.
II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
85312310 - Guidance services.
80561000 - Health training 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: Yes
II.2)Quantity Or Scope Of The Contract
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Our overall requirement is for 12-15 individual resources, each targeted at a particular health/care setting, issue or workforce role. For procurement purposes, we anticipate that these resources will be delivered in discrete contracts of up to 4-5 resources each, with each resource set delivered by a different contractor. We therefore expect to contract with approximately three organisations for this requirement. However, we are prepared to consider other ways of structuring the work.
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: 8 (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:
Not Provided
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Please refer to our Commercial questionnaire, which is part of the tender pack.
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 the terms and conditions included in the tender pack.
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.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Technical capacity - means of proof required
Not Provided
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: Open
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: EHRC 019-1415
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Yes
Prior information notice
Notice number in OJEU: 2013/S 195 - 336622 of 03/10/2013
Other previous publications: Yes
Notice number in OJ: 2013/S 195 - 336622 of 03/10/2013
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
Date: 20/08/2014
Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 13:00
Payable documents: No
IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date: 27/08/2014
Time: 13:00
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: English
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Until: 2015-03-31 00:00:00.0
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders
Not Provided
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 tender pack including full specification can be obtained by sending an e-mail to tenders@equalityhumanrights.com, please quote reference 'EHRC 019-1415 Human Rights Resources' in the subject line.
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.
It is possible that unforeseen additional services will either be necessary for the completion of the contract or are not separable from it. The Commission reserves the right to award any such contract for unforeseen additional services to be undertaken by the original provider. However this will only apply if the value of the additions does not exceed 50% of the total value of the contract.
Furthermore if a repetition of similar services is required, the Commission reserves the right to award such a contract to the provider originally awarded the contract pursuant to this contract opportunity as part of the same project. This provision would only be available for a period not exceeding 3 years after the award of the original contract
To view this notice, please click here:
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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: 22/07/2014
ANNEX A
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Section I: Contracting Authority
Title: UK-Manchester: Guidance services.
I.1)Name, Addresses And Contact Point(s)
Equality & Human Rights Commission
Arndale House, Arndale Centre, Manchester, M4 3AQ, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1618298100, Fax. +44 1618298110, Email: tenders@equalityhumanrights.com, URL: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/, URL: http://equalityhumanrights.g2b.info/cgi-gen/profile.pl?action=view_profile&oid=6246
Contact: Hywyn Pritchard, Attn: Hywyn Pritchard
I.2)Type Of Purchasing Body
Not Provided
Section II: Object Of The Contract
II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority/entity: Human rights based education resources in the health & social care sectors
II.1.2)Short description of the contract or purchase:
Guidance services. Health training services. Human rights in health and social care: to develop new innovative educational resources, to encourage knowledge development and implementation of human rights based approaches to service delivery in the health and social care sector. Our requirement is for 12-15 individual resources of this type.
II.1.3)Common procurement vocabulary:
85312310 - Guidance services.
80561000 - Health training services.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure (as stated in the original notice): Open
IV.2)Administrative Information
IV.2.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity: EHRC 019-1415
IV.2.2)Notice reference for electronically submitted notice
Original Notice sent via: OJS eSender
Notice Reference: 2014 - 139040
IV.2.3)Notice to which this publication refers: Not Provided
IV.2.4)Date of dispatch of the original Notice: 22/07/2014
Section VI: Complementary Information
1: Complementary Information
VI.1)This notice involves: Additional Information
VI.3)Information to be corrected or added
VI.3.1) Modification of original information submitted by the contracting authority
VI.3.2) In both
In the original Notice.
In the corresponding tender documents.
VI.3.3)Text to be corrected in the original notice:
VI.3.4)Dates to be corrected in the original notice:
Place of dates to be modified: Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Instead of: 27/08/2014 Time: 13:00
Read: 03/09/2014 Time: 13:00
VI.3.5)Addresses and contact points to be corrected:
Equality and Human Rights Commisison
Arndale House, Arndale Centre, Manchester, M4 3AQ, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1618298100, Email: tenders@equaltyhumanrights.com
Contact: Charlie Loveday
VI.3.6)Text to be added in the original notice: Not Provided
VI.4)Other additional information:
The tender pack including full specification can be obtained by sending an e-mail to tenders@equalityhumanrights.com, please quote reference 'EHRC 019-1415 Human Rights Resources' in the subject line.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.It is possible that unforeseen additional services will either be necessary for the completion of the contract or are not separable from it. The Commission reserves the right to award any such contract for unforeseen additional services to be undertaken by the original provider. However this will only apply if the value of the additions does not exceed 50% of the total value of the contract.Furthermore if a repetition of similar services is required, the Commission reserves the right to award such a contract to the provider originally awarded the contract pursuant to this contract opportunity as part of the same project. This provision would only be available for a period not exceeding 3 years after the award of the original contract
To view this notice, please click here:
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VI.5)Date of dispatch: 14/08/2014