Yatish Shah: Independent Living Support - Floating Support Services

UK-Leicester: Health and social work services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Leicester City Council
      A Block, 2nd Floor, New Walk Centre, Welford Place, Leicester, LE1 6ZG, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1164542348, Email: asc-procurement@leicester.gov.uk
      Attn: Yatish Shah

      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:
      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: Independent Living Support - Floating Support Services
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 25

         Region Codes: UKF21 - Leicester         
      II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework or a dynamic purchasing system: The notice involves the setting up of a framework agreement                                                        

      II.1.4)Information on framework agreement: Not Provided
      
      II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Health and social work services. Social work services without accommodation. Social work and related services. Leicester City Council (the Council) are inviting tenders from suitably qualified and experienced organisations wishing to tender for the provision of Independent Living Support – Floating Support Services (Housing Related Support Services) which are non-statutory, for vulnerable adults and older people in the city of Leicester. Please note the provision of accommodation is not being procured. Only the provision of Housing Related Support Services is being procured.
The Council wishes to establish a Framework Agreement, with up to fifteen organisations for the provision of Independent Living Support Services – Floating Support Service.
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      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         85000000 - Health and social work services.
         
         85312000 - Social work services without accommodation.
         
         85300000 - Social work and related 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:
      The Council wishes to establish a Framework Agreement, with up to fifteen organisations for the provision of Independent Living Support Services – Floating Support Service. Following the evaluation of the Invitation to Tender submitted tenders, any tender that is accepted will be awarded to the most economically advantageous tender in accordance with the tender award criteria. It is Leicester City Council’s intention that up to fifteen of the highest scoring tenderers scoring above 65% overall in accordance with the tender award criteria, will be awarded the Framework Agreement.
The Framework Agreement will initially be for a period of 1 year, anticipated to commence on 01 October 2014, with the possibility to extend for a period or successive period of +1 +1 years at the sole discretion of the Council.

Services will be called-off from the Framework Agreement during the period of the Framework Agreement. The Council anticipates that during the period of the Framework Agreement (1 +1 +1 years, total of 3 years) the approximate value of the service will be £2,629,911.
There will be no guarantee of work or volume of work to be given under this contract.         
         Estimated value excluding VAT: 2,629,911
         Currency: GBP
                        
      
      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: 12 (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:
      The provision of appropriate guarantees, bonds and warranties is reserved
      
      III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
      Not Provided
      
      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: No       
   III.2)Conditions For Participation
      III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:

      Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: The Authority will apply all theoffences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public ContractRegulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to beinvited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) 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 whoare registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countrieslaws, 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 beselected 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 beexcluded 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:
         (a) Appropriate statementsfrom 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 coveredby the contract for a maximum of the last 3 financial years available, depending on the date on which theundertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers isavailable.
      
      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: 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:


         Not Provided      
      
      IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
         Date: 19/05/2014
         Time: 14:00      
      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 Not Provided      
      IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders
         Not Provided

Section VI: Complementary Information

   VI.1)This Is A Recurrent Procurement: Not Provided
   VI.2)Information about European Union funds:
      The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: Not Provided      
   VI.3)Additional Information: The Framework Agreement will initially be for a period of 1 year, anticipated to commence on 01 October 2014, with the possibility to extend for a period or successive period of +1 +1 years at the sole discretion of the Council.
Services will be called-off from the Framework Agreement during the period of the Framework Agreement. The Council anticipates that during the period of the Framework Agreement (1 +1 +1 years, total of 3 years) the approximate value of the service will be £2,629,911.
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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GO-201447-PRO-5587035 TKR-201447-PRO-5587034
   
   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: 07/04/2014

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