Stoke-on-Trent City Council: Homeworks Service

UK-Stoke-on-Trent: Home-help services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Stoke-on-Trent City Council
      Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1HH, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1782231187
      Electronic Access URL: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/
      Electronic Submission URL: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/

      Further information can be obtained at: ANNEX A.I
            
      Specifications and additional documents: ANNEX A.II
            
      Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: ANNEX A.III
            
   
   I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
      Regional or local authority

   I.3) Main activity:
      General Public Services

   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: Homeworks Service
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 27

         Region Codes: UKG23 - Stoke-on-Trent         
      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:
      Home-help services. The City Council is inviting tenders from providers for a Homeworks Project that supports Tenants of the City Council to keep
and retain their tenancies. It will be down to the bidding provider(s) to stipulate how they will deliver this service based on the
purpose, principles and guidance laid out in this specification. This tender specification relates to Homeworks Project for
Stoke on Trent City Council tenants.
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         98513310 - Home-help 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      
      
      II.2.2)Options: No          
         II.2.3)Information about renewals:
            This contract is subject to renewal: No          
   II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion      
         Duration in months: 60 (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:
      See tender documents
      
      III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
      See 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:         
         (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         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         Information available in the tender docuements      
      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: AN2013/277*      
      IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No

      IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:

      Date: 17/01/2014
      Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 12:00
         Payable documents: No       
      
      IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
         Date: 20/01/2014
         Time: 12:00      
      IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: Not Provided         
      IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
         Duration in month(s): 12
      
      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: Please note that this is a call for expressions of interest but for completion of itt. All documents are avalable from https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/, itt code 29702.

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.
To view this notice, please click here:
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   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      Stoke-on-Trent City Council
      Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1HH, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1782231187, URL: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/

      Body responsible for mediation procedures:
               Stoke-on-Trent City Council
         Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1HH, United Kingdom
         Tel. +44 1782231187

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided   
   
      VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
            Stoke-on-Trent City Council
      Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1HH, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1782231187

   VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 27/11/2013

ANNEX A
   I) Addresses and contact points from which further information can be obtained:
      Stoke-on-Trent City Council
      Corporate Procurement, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1HH, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1782231187, Email: kirsty.fairbanks@stoke.gov.uk, URL: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/   
   
   II) Addresses and contact points from which specifications and additional documents can be obtained:
      Bravo Solution
      https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/, https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauth, United Kingdom
      URL: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/   
   
   III) Addresses and contact points to which tenders/requests to participate must be sent:
      Bravo Solution
      https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/, https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauth, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 8003684850, URL: https://iewm.bravosolution.co.uk/staffordshireauthorities/