First Choice Homes Oldham has published this notice through Delta eSourcing
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| Title: | FCHO Translation & Interpretation Services |
| Notice type: | Contract Notice |
| Authority: | First Choice Homes Oldham |
| Nature of contract: | Services |
| Procedure: | Restricted |
| Short Description: | FCHO are seeking to procure an accurate high quality and confidential Translation & Interpretation Service for the organisation, and its, current and potential customers. The purpose of the service for FCHO is to: - Provide telephonic and face to face interpreting for whom spoken or written English presents a significant language or communication barrier to accessing FCHO’s services - Provide written translation to agreed timescales - Ensure all interpretation and translation work is clear and accurate The translation and interpretation service is currently being accessed approximately 578 times for translation services and 89 times for interpretation services. The successful bidder will be required to provide FCHO with 24 hour interpretation cover for 365 days a year. Occasionally FCHO employees may need to arrange emergency contacts with customers, to address a crisis issue, this might be at any reasonable locations e.g. FCHO offices, FHCO housing stock, private addresses and community venues. The estimated value of this contract is in the range of £35,000 to £55,000 per annum. |
| Published: | 02/05/2013 16:35 |
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Section I: Contracting Authority
I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
First Choice Homes Oldham
Broadway House, Whitegate Avenue, Oldham, OL9 8RW, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1617702164, Email: karen.andrew@fcho.co.uk, URL: www.fcho.co.uk
Attn: Karen Andrew
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:
Body governed by public law
I.3) Main activity:
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: FCHO Translation & Interpretation Services
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES
Service Category: 27
Region Codes: UKD3 - Greater Manchester
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:
Translation services. Interpretation services. FCHO are seeking to procure an accurate high quality and confidential Translation & Interpretation Service for the organisation, and its, current and potential customers.
The purpose of the service for FCHO is to:
- Provide telephonic and face to face interpreting for whom spoken or written English presents a significant language or communication barrier to accessing FCHO’s services
- Provide written translation to agreed timescales
- Ensure all interpretation and translation work is clear and accurate
The translation and interpretation service is currently being accessed approximately 578 times for translation services and 89 times for interpretation services. The successful bidder will be required to provide FCHO with 24 hour interpretation cover for 365 days a year.
Occasionally FCHO employees may need to arrange emergency contacts with customers, to address a crisis issue, this might be at any reasonable locations e.g. FCHO offices, FHCO housing stock, private addresses and community venues.
The estimated value of this contract is in the range of £35,000 to £55,000 per annum.
II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
79530000 - Translation services.
79540000 - Interpretation services.
II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): No
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:
Not Provided
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range between: 105,000 and 180,000
Currency: GBP
II.2.2)Options: No
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: 36 (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:
A performance bond, parent company guarantee and/or other security for the due and proper performance of contractual obligations may be required
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
These will be set out in the contract documents
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Where a contractor is made up of more than one economic operator the contracting entity would require each to undertake joint and several liability
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:
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire, which interested ecomonic operators may obtain, along with an accompanying information memorandum, as set out in VI.3
III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire
Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Technical capacity - means of proof required
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire
Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire
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: Not Provided
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: Not Provided
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 minimum number: 3 and maximum number: 5
Objective Criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire
IV.2)Award Criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria: Not Provided
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: Not Provided
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: 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: 04/06/2013
Time: 12:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: Not Provided
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. Requests to participate from interested economic operators must be by way of obtaining and responding to the pre-qualification questionnaire (by following the instructions set out below).
Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta. You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage.
Suppliers must log in, go to your Response Manager and add the following Access Code: 9W57B5BR63. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you here.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 4th June 2013 12:00. Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
If you experience any technical difficulties please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0845 270 7050 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=55579372
GO-201352-PRO-4776473 TKR-201352-PRO-4776472
VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
Not Provided
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: In accordance with the Public Contracts regulations 2006 (S.I 2006 No 5) including regulations 32 (information about contract award procedures) and 32A (standstill period) and part 9 (applications to the court).
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: 02/05/2013
ANNEX A
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UK-Oldham: Translation services.
Section I: Contracting Authority
Title: UK-Oldham: Translation services.
I.1)Name, Addresses And Contact Point(s)
First Choice Homes Oldham
Broadway House, Whitegate Avenue, Oldham, OL9 8RW, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1617702164, Email: karen.andrew@fcho.co.uk, URL: www.fcho.co.uk
Attn: Karen Andrew
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: FCHO Translation & Interpretation Services
II.1.2)Short description of the contract or purchase:
Translation services. Interpretation services. FCHO are seeking to procure an accurate high quality and confidential Translation & Interpretation Service for the organisation, and its, current and potential customers.
The purpose of the service for FCHO is to:
- Provide telephonic and face to face interpreting for whom spoken or written English presents a significant language or communication barrier to accessing FCHO’s services
- Provide written translation to agreed timescales
- Ensure all interpretation and translation work is clear and accurate
The translation and interpretation service is currently being accessed approximately 550 times for interpretation services and approximately 80 times for translation services. The successful bidder will be required to provide FCHO with 24 hour interpretation cover for 365 days a year.
Occasionally FCHO employees may need to arrange emergency contacts with customers, to address a crisis issue, this might be at any reasonable locations e.g. FCHO offices, FHCO housing stock, private addresses and community venues.
The estimated value of this contract is in the range of £35,000 to £55,000 per annum.
II.1.3)Common procurement vocabulary:
79530000 - Translation services.
79540000 - Interpretation services.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type of Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure (as stated in the original notice): Restricted
IV.2)Administrative Information
IV.2.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity: Not Provided
IV.2.2)Notice reference for electronically submitted notice
Original Notice sent via: OJS eSender
Notice Reference: 2013 - 106200
IV.2.3)Notice to which this publication refers: Not Provided
IV.2.4)Date of dispatch of the original Notice: 02/05/2013
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:
Place of text to be modified: Section II.1.2
Instead of: The translation and interpretation service is currently being accessed approximately 578 times for translation services and 89 times for interpretation services.
Read: The translation and interpretation service is currently being accessed approximately 550 times for interpretation services and approximately 80 times for translation services.
VI.3.4)Dates to be corrected in the original notice: Not Provided
VI.3.5)Addresses and contact points to be corrected:
Not Provided
VI.3.6)Text to be added in the original notice: Not Provided
VI.4)Other 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. Requests to participate from interested economic operators must be by way of obtaining and responding to the pre-qualification questionnaire (by following the instructions set out below).
Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta. You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage.
Suppliers must log in, go to your Response Manager and add the following Access Code: 9W57B5BR63. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you here.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 4th June 2013 12:00. Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
If you experience any technical difficulties please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0845 270 7050 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=60723777
GO-2013517-PRO-4813513 TKR-2013517-PRO-4813512
VI.5)Date of dispatch: 17/05/2013
View Award Notice
Section I: Contracting Authority
Title: UK-Oldham: Translation services.
I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
First Choice Homes Oldham
Broadway House, Whitegate Avenue, Oldham, OL9 8RW, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1617702164, Email: karen.andrew@fcho.co.uk, URL: www.fcho.co.uk
Attn: Karen Andrew
I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
Body governed by public law
I.3) Main activity:
Not Provided
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
II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: FCHO Translation & Interpretation Services
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works:
SERVICES
Service Category: 27
Do you agree to the publication of this notice?: No
Region Codes: UKD3 - Greater Manchester
II.1.3)Information about a framework or a dynamic purchasing system:
Not Provided
II.1.4)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
Translation services. Interpretation services. FCHO are seeking to procure an accurate high quality and confidential Translation & Interpretation Service for the organisation, and its, current and potential customers.
The purpose of the service for FCHO is to:
- Provide telephonic and face to face interpreting for whom spoken or written English presents a significant language or communication barrier to accessing FCHO’s services
- Provide written translation to agreed timescales
- Ensure all interpretation and translation work is clear and accurate
The translation and interpretation service is currently being accessed approximately 578 times for translation services and 89 times for interpretation services. The successful bidder will be required to provide FCHO with 24 hour interpretation cover for 365 days a year.
Occasionally FCHO employees may need to arrange emergency contacts with customers, to address a crisis issue, this might be at any reasonable locations e.g. FCHO offices, FHCO housing stock, private addresses and community venues.
The estimated value of this contract is in the range of £35,000 to £55,000 per annum.
II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary:
79530000 - Translation services.
79540000 - Interpretation services.
II.1.6)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): No
II.2)Total Final Value Of Contract(s)
II.2.1) Total final value of the contract(s)
Not Provided
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Type Of Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure: Restricted
IV.2)Award Criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria: Not Provided
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: Not Provided
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No
Section V: Award Of Contract
1: Award And Contract Value
Contract No: Not Provided
V.1)Date Of Contract Award: Not Provided
V.2) Information About Offers
Number Of Offers Received: Not Provided
Number Of Offers Received By Electronic Means: Not Provided
V.3)Name And Address Of Economic Operator To Whom The Contract Has Been Awarded:
Official name: Pearl Linguistics
V.4)Information On Value Of Contract
Not Provided
V.5)Information about subcontracting:
The contract is likely to be subcontracted: Not Provided
Section VI: Complementary Information
VI.1)Information about European Union funds:
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
VI.2)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. Requests to participate from interested economic operators must be by way of obtaining and responding to the pre-qualification questionnaire (by following the instructions set out below).
Suppliers must read through this set of instructions and follow the process to respond to this opportunity.
The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta. You must register on this site to respond, if you are already registered you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password. Please note there is a password reminder link on the homepage.
Suppliers must log in, go to your Response Manager and add the following Access Code: 9W57B5BR63. Please ensure you follow any instruction provided to you here.
The deadline for submitting your response(s) is 4th June 2013 12:00. Please ensure that you allow yourself plenty of time when responding to this invite prior to the closing date and time, especially if you have been asked to upload documents.
If you experience any technical difficulties please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0845 270 7050 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=99511247
GO-2014519-PRO-5680193 TKR-2014519-PRO-5680192
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
Not Provided
VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals: In accordance with the Public Contracts regulations 2006 (S.I 2006 No 5) including regulations 32 (information about contract award procedures) and 32A (standstill period) and part 9 (applications to the court).
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
Not Provided
VI.4)Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 19/05/2014