Thirteen Group Ltd: Landscape Design and Enviromental Consultancy

  Thirteen Group Ltd has published this notice through Delta eSourcing

Notice Summary
Title: Landscape Design and Enviromental Consultancy
Notice type: Contract Notice
Authority: Thirteen Group Ltd
Nature of contract: Services
Procedure: Open
Short Description: Thirteen Housing Group Ltd was created from the merger of Tees Valley based organisations Fabrick Housing Group and Vela Group. The group owns and manages more than 32,000 homes from an area spanning North Tyneside to York, making it the largest registered housing provider in the North East, and in the top 25 nationally. It is also one of the ten largest employers in the North East. Former companies Fabrick and Vela merged to become new parent company Thirteen Housing Group Ltd. Their partner landlords, Erimus Housing and Tees Valley Housing, formerly in Fabrick and Housing Hartlepool and Tristar Homes, formerly in Vela, remain separate successful organisations in their own right but are part of the larger group. Thirteen offers strategic direction and drives the vision for the partnership, overseeing the partner organisations in the group. As part of the move, plans are being developed to create Thirteen Care and Support, a new housing support arm, bringing together the services of the supported housing team of Tees Valley Housing and Norcare, a former Tyneside based charity. The move means expertise; resources and costs can be shared, achieving savings without reducing services and allowing the landlords to focus on the needs of their tenants and neighbourhoods. The concluded contract will be in the name of Thirteen Housing Group Ltd and will be available to all current and future Group members. The Group intends to engage the services of a Landscape Consultant to deliver and support a diverse range of environmental projects. Over the term of the contract it is expected that the Group will spend in excess of £10 million delivering environmental schemes. • The length of the contract will be five (5) years, with an option to extend for a further two (2) years at the sole discretion of the Group • The contract will be awarded to one supplier
Published: 16/05/2014 11:40

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UK-Middlesbrough: Environmental issues consultancy services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Thirteen Housing Group Ltd
      2 Hudson Quay, Windard Way, Middlesbrough, TS2 1QG, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 01642947158, Email: joanne.boyd@thirteengroup.co.uk, URL: http.//www.thirteen.co.uk
      Contact: Joanne Boyd
      Electronic Access URL: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/index.html
      Electronic Submission URL: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/index.html

      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:
      Other: Registered social landlord

   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: Landscape Design and Enviromental Consultancy
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 11

         Region Codes: UKC12 - South Teesside         
      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:
      Environmental issues consultancy services. Project management consultancy services. Thirteen Housing Group Ltd was created from the merger of Tees Valley based organisations Fabrick Housing Group and Vela Group.

The group owns and manages more than 32,000 homes from an area spanning North Tyneside to York, making it the largest registered housing provider in the North East, and in the top 25 nationally. It is also one of the ten largest employers in the North East.

Former companies Fabrick and Vela merged to become new parent company Thirteen Housing Group Ltd. Their partner landlords, Erimus Housing and Tees Valley Housing, formerly in Fabrick and Housing Hartlepool and Tristar Homes, formerly in Vela, remain separate successful organisations in their own right but are part of the larger group. Thirteen offers strategic direction and drives the vision for the partnership, overseeing the partner organisations in the group.

As part of the move, plans are being developed to create Thirteen Care and Support, a new housing support arm, bringing together the services of the supported housing team of Tees Valley Housing and Norcare, a former Tyneside based charity.

The move means expertise; resources and costs can be shared, achieving savings without reducing services and allowing the landlords to focus on the needs of their tenants and neighbourhoods.

The concluded contract will be in the name of Thirteen Housing Group Ltd and will be available to all current and future Group members.

The Group intends to engage the services of a Landscape Consultant to deliver and support a diverse range of environmental projects.

Over the term of the contract it is expected that the Group will spend in excess of £10 million delivering environmental schemes.

•   The length of the contract will be five (5) years, with an option to extend for a further two (2) years at the sole discretion of the Group
•   The contract will be awarded to one supplier
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90713000 - Environmental issues consultancy services.
         
         72224000 - Project management consultancy 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: 500,000 and 1,500,000
         Currency: GBP
               
      
      II.2.2)Options: Yes
         If yes, description of these options: 2 year option to extend       
      If known, Provisional timetable for recourse to these options:
                  
         Duration in months: 24 (from the award of the contract)
                            
         II.2.3)Information about renewals:
            This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
                   
   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:
      As stated in tender documents
      
      III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
      As stated in tender documents
      
      III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
      Not Provided
      
      III.1.4)Other particular conditions:
         The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: Not Provided      
   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:         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         As per tender documents
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         As per 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: 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: THIR/TEN/14/002      
      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: 19/06/2014
      Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 17:00
         Payable documents: No       
      
      IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
         Date: 26/06/2014
         Time: 17:00      
      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
         Duration in days: 90
      
      IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders
         Date: 27/06/2014


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

      Body responsible for mediation procedures:
               Thirteen Housing Group Ltd
         2 Hudson Quay, Windward Way, MIddlesbrough, TS2 1QG, United Kingdom
         Tel. +44 01642947158, Email: joanne.boyd@thirteengroup.co.uk

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Thirteen Housing Group Ltd will incorporate a minimum 10 day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the Contracting Authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Should such additional information be required, please contact the person cited in paragraph 1.1 of this form.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations (SI 2006 no 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (within 3 months from the time the aggrieved party knew, or ought to have known, about the alleged breach.
Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order the setting aside of the award decision, or order the Contracting Authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered in to the court may order the setting aside of the contract, may award damages and impose a financial penalty on the Contracting Authority. Damages may also be available to any of the parties involved. The purpose of the standstill period referred to above is to allow parties the opportunity to challenge the award decision made by the Contracting Authority and, where appropriate, issue proceedings against the Contracting Authority which shall have the effect of automatically suspending the contract award procedure until the proceedings have been concluded.   
   
      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: 16/05/2014

ANNEX A

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Landscape Design and Enviromental Consultancy

UK-Middlesbrough: Environmental issues consultancy services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   Title: UK-Middlesbrough: Environmental issues consultancy services.
   I.1)Name, Addresses And Contact Point(s)
      Thirteen Housing Group Ltd
      2 Hudson Quay, Windard Way, Middlesbrough, TS2 1QG, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 01642947158, Email: joanne.boyd@thirteengroup.co.uk, URL: http.//www.thirteen.co.uk
      Contact: Joanne Boyd
   
   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: Landscape Design and Enviromental Consultancy
      II.1.2)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Environmental issues consultancy services. Project management consultancy services. Thirteen Housing Group Ltd was created from the merger of Tees Valley based organisations Fabrick Housing Group and Vela Group.

The group owns and manages more than 32,000 homes from an area spanning North Tyneside to York, making it the largest registered housing provider in the North East, and in the top 25 nationally. It is also one of the ten largest employers in the North East.

Former companies Fabrick and Vela merged to become new parent company Thirteen Housing Group Ltd. Their partner landlords, Erimus Housing and Tees Valley Housing, formerly in Fabrick and Housing Hartlepool and Tristar Homes, formerly in Vela, remain separate successful organisations in their own right but are part of the larger group. Thirteen offers strategic direction and drives the vision for the partnership, overseeing the partner organisations in the group.

As part of the move, plans are being developed to create Thirteen Care and Support, a new housing support arm, bringing together the services of the supported housing team of Tees Valley Housing and Norcare, a former Tyneside based charity.

The move means expertise; resources and costs can be shared, achieving savings without reducing services and allowing the landlords to focus on the needs of their tenants and neighbourhoods.

The concluded contract will be in the name of Thirteen Housing Group Ltd and will be available to all current and future Group members.

The Group intends to engage the services of a Landscape Consultant to deliver and support a diverse range of environmental projects.

Over the term of the contract it is expected that the Group will spend in excess of £10 million delivering environmental schemes.

•   The length of the contract will be five (5) years, with an option to extend for a further two (2) years at the sole discretion of the Group
•   The contract will be awarded to one supplier
      
      II.1.3)Common procurement vocabulary:
      90713000 - Environmental issues consultancy services.
      
      72224000 - Project management consultancy 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: THIR/TEN/14/002      
      IV.2.2)Notice reference for electronically submitted notice
         Original Notice sent via: OJS eSender

         Notice Reference: 2014 - 135731
      IV.2.3)Notice to which this publication refers: Not Provided      
      IV.2.4)Date of dispatch of the original Notice: 16/05/2014
      
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 the original Notice

         VI.3.3)Text to be corrected in the original notice:
            
            Place of text to be modified: VI .4 additional information
            
            Instead of:
            
            Read: access code 69HTZ6HM3U

         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:      
      In order to respond to this opportunity through Delta please use the following access code:- 69HTZ6HM3U
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      VI.5)Date of dispatch: 19/05/2014

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UK-Middlesbrough: Environmental issues consultancy services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   Title: UK-Middlesbrough: Environmental issues consultancy services.
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Thirteen Housing Group Ltd
      2 Hudson Quay, Windard Way, Middlesbrough, TS2 1QG, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 01642947158, Email: joanne.boyd@thirteengroup.co.uk, URL: http.//www.thirteen.co.uk
      Contact: Joanne Boyd
      Electronic Access URL: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/index.html
      Electronic Submission URL: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/index.html

   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: Landscape Design and Enviromental Consultancy      
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works:
         SERVICES
         
         Service Category: 11
         
         Region Codes: UKC12 - South Teesside         
      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):
         Environmental issues consultancy services. Project management consultancy services. Thirteen Housing Group Ltd was created from the merger of Tees Valley based organisations Fabrick Housing Group and Vela Group.

The group owns and manages more than 32,000 homes from an area spanning North Tyneside to York, making it the largest registered housing provider in the North East, and in the top 25 nationally. It is also one of the ten largest employers in the North East.

Former companies Fabrick and Vela merged to become new parent company Thirteen Housing Group Ltd. Their partner landlords, Erimus Housing and Tees Valley Housing, formerly in Fabrick and Housing Hartlepool and Tristar Homes, formerly in Vela, remain separate successful organisations in their own right but are part of the larger group. Thirteen offers strategic direction and drives the vision for the partnership, overseeing the partner organisations in the group.

As part of the move, plans are being developed to create Thirteen Care and Support, a new housing support arm, bringing together the services of the supported housing team of Tees Valley Housing and Norcare, a former Tyneside based charity.

The move means expertise; resources and costs can be shared, achieving savings without reducing services and allowing the landlords to focus on the needs of their tenants and neighbourhoods.

The concluded contract will be in the name of Thirteen Housing Group Ltd and will be available to all current and future Group members.

The Group intends to engage the services of a Landscape Consultant to deliver and support a diverse range of environmental projects.

Over the term of the contract it is expected that the Group will spend in excess of £10 million delivering environmental schemes.

•   The length of the contract will be five (5) years, with an option to extend for a further two (2) years at the sole discretion of the Group
•   The contract will be awarded to one supplier
      II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary:
         90713000 - Environmental issues consultancy services.
         72224000 - Project management consultancy 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: Open
   IV.2)Award Criteria
      IV.2.1)Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in terms of:
               
         Criteria - Weighting
         
         Quality - 30
         Price - 70
         
      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: THIR/TEN/14/002         
      IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No


Section V: Award Of Contract
      
   1: Award And Contract Value
      Contract No: THIR/CON/14/002

      V.1)Date Of Contract Award: 22/07/2014      
      V.2) Information About Offers
         Number Of Offers Received: 10          
         Number Of Offers Received By Electronic Means: 10       
      V.3)Name And Address Of Economic Operator To Whom The Contract Has Been Awarded:
         Official name: Groundwork North East & Cumbria
         Postal address: Grosvenor House, 29 Market Place
         Town: Bishop Auckland
         Postal code: DL14 7NP
         Country: United Kingdom
      V.4)Information On Value Of Contract
         Initial estimated total value of the contract
            Value: 1,000,000
            Currency: GBP

         If annual or monthly value:
            Number of years: 5
      V.5)Information about subcontracting:
         The contract is likely to be subcontracted: No

   
   2: 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:
         Not Provided
      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.
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   VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      Not Provided

      Body responsible for mediation procedures:
         Thirteen Housing Group Ltd
         2 Hudson Quay, Windward Way, MIddlesbrough, TS2 1QG, United Kingdom
         Tel. +44 01642947158, Email: joanne.boyd@thirteengroup.co.uk
   VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals: Thirteen Housing Group Ltd will incorporate a minimum 10 day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the Contracting Authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Should such additional information be required, please contact the person cited in paragraph 1.1 of this form.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations (SI 2006 no 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (within 3 months from the time the aggrieved party knew, or ought to have known, about the alleged breach.
Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order the setting aside of the award decision, or order the Contracting Authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered in to the court may order the setting aside of the contract, may award damages and impose a financial penalty on the Contracting Authority. Damages may also be available to any of the parties involved. The purpose of the standstill period referred to above is to allow parties the opportunity to challenge the award decision made by the Contracting Authority and, where appropriate, issue proceedings against the Contracting Authority which shall have the effect of automatically suspending the contract award procedure until the proceedings have been concluded.    
   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: 30/07/2014