Bip Buyer de-activated users: Sale of Commingled Recyclates

UK-Welwyn Garden City: Refuse and waste related services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
      The Campus, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6AE, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1707357371, Email: a.harper@welhat.gov.uk, URL: www.welhat.gov.uk, URL: http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta
      Contact: Procurement, Attn: Andrew Harper

      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: Yes

Section II: Object Of The Contract: SERVICES
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: Sale of Commingled Recyclates
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 27
         
      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:      
            Framework agreement with several operators
            maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 7
         Duration of the framework agreement:
            Duration in year(s): 3             
         Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement:
                        
            Estimated value excluding VAT: 200,000
            Currency: GBP
                              
      II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Refuse and waste related services. Refuse disposal and treatment. Refuse recycling services. Sale of Commingled Recyclates collected from households within Hertfordshire
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90500000 - Refuse and waste related services.
         
         90510000 - Refuse disposal and treatment.
         
         90514000 - Refuse recycling 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: Yes          
         If yes, tenders should be submitted for: One or more lots

      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:
      Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council acting as the Lead Authority for the Hertfordshire Waste Partnership (HWP) wishes to enter into contractual arrangements with a suitably qualified tenderer(s) for the sale of commingled recyclates for a period of three years commencing on 1st February 2014 with the possibility of a further 1 year extension subject to market testing.         
         Estimated value excluding VAT: 200,000
         Currency: GBP
                        
      
      II.2.2)Options: Yes
         If yes, description of these options: Three year contract with an optional one year extension                   
         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      
         Starting: 03/02/2014
         Completion: 31/01/2017

   Information About Lots
            
      Lot No: 1
      Title: Fully Commingled

      1)Short Description: Not Provided


      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90514000 - Refuse recycling services.
         
      3)Quantity Or Scope: Not Provided
               
      4)Indication About Different Date For Start Of Award Procedures And/Or Duration Of The Contract Not Provided
                        
                  
         5)Additional Information About Lots: Not Provided
               
      Lot No: 2
      Title: Partially Commingled (1)

      1)Short Description: Not Provided


      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90514000 - Refuse recycling services.
         
      3)Quantity Or Scope: Not Provided
               
      4)Indication About Different Date For Start Of Award Procedures And/Or Duration Of The Contract Not Provided
                        
                  
         5)Additional Information About Lots: Not Provided
               
      Lot No: 3
      Title: Partially Commingled (2)

      1)Short Description: Not Provided


      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90514000 - Refuse recycling services.
         
      3)Quantity Or Scope: Not Provided
               
      4)Indication About Different Date For Start Of Award Procedures And/Or Duration Of The Contract Not Provided
                        
                  
         5)Additional Information About Lots: Not Provided
               
      Lot No: 4
      Title: Fully Commingled - soft plastics

      1)Short Description: Not Provided


      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90514000 - Refuse recycling services.
         
      3)Quantity Or Scope: Not Provided
               
      4)Indication About Different Date For Start Of Award Procedures And/Or Duration Of The Contract Not Provided
                        
                  
         5)Additional Information About Lots: Not Provided
               
      Lot No: 5
      Title: Partly Commingled (1) - soft plastics

      1)Short Description: Not Provided


      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90514000 - Refuse recycling services.
         
      3)Quantity Or Scope: Not Provided
               
      4)Indication About Different Date For Start Of Award Procedures And/Or Duration Of The Contract Not Provided
                        
                  
         5)Additional Information About Lots: Not Provided
               
      Lot No: 6
      Title: Partly Commingled (2) - soft plastics

      1)Short Description: Not Provided


      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90514000 - Refuse recycling services.
         
      3)Quantity Or Scope: Not Provided
               
      4)Indication About Different Date For Start Of Award Procedures And/Or Duration Of The Contract Not Provided
                        
                  
         5)Additional Information About Lots: Not Provided
               
      Lot No: 7
      Title: Rigid Plastics

      1)Short Description: Not Provided


      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         90514000 - Refuse recycling services.
         
      3)Quantity Or Scope: Not Provided
               
      4)Indication About Different Date For Start Of Award Procedures And/Or Duration Of The Contract Not Provided
                        
                  
         5)Additional Information About Lots: Not Provided
                  
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:
      Not Provided
      
      III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
      As detailed in 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.

      As detailed in tender documents      
      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.
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         As detailed in tender documents         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         As detailed in tender documents
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         As detailed in the tender documents         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         As detailed in the 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: 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: Yes
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: C663      
      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: 18/10/2013
      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: 21/10/2013
         Time: 12:00      
      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
         Not Provided

Section VI: Complementary Information

   VI.1)This Is A Recurrent Procurement: Yes
      Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 4 years
   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: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has moved to a new way of e-Tendering and worked closely with the County, other Districts and Partners to create a joint procurement website called Supply Hertfordshire. This website is supported by BiP Solutions who provide a system called Delta-ets which is the background platform to Supply Hertfordshire.


Step 1: Registering with Supply Hertfordshire
To participate in this tender you will need to go into http://supplyhertfordshire.g2b.info/hpf/ and register, thereafter you will be issued with a USERNAME and PASSWORD. (If you have already registered with Delta-ets or Supply Hertfordshire, please follow the link above where you can log on using your existing username and password. If you have registered and have forgotten your Username and Password, please click on the forgotten password link below the log in box.) Please keep this USERNAME and PASSWORD secure, and do not pass it to any third parties.

Step 2: Completing your Tender
To complete the Tender you will need to go into the Tenderbox area and enter the Tender Access Code CZ3X56F426 You will then need to download the relevant Tender and complete. Please complete the information as fully as possible.


Step 3: Uploading Your Completed PQQ
Once you have completed your Tender you must then “upload” your completed response in to the Tenderbox (Tender Access Code CZ3X56F426 no later than noon on Monday 21st October 2013

Please make sure you have submitted your completed Tender to the correct Tender Access Code, the Council will not be held accountable for any errors made by a tenderer in submitting your completed Tender.

If you are experiencing problems, please contact the Delta helpdesk via email at support@supplyhertfordshire.g2b.info or call 0845 270 7050 Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm for further assistance.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Welwyn-Garden-City:-Refuse-and-waste-related-services./CZ3X56F426

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/CZ3X56F426
GO-201396-PRO-5097373 TKR-201396-PRO-5097372
   
   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
      The Campus, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6AE, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1707357371, Email: a.harper@welhat.gov.uk, URL: www.welhat.gov.uk

      Body responsible for mediation procedures:
               Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR)
         The Campus, 70 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1EU, United Kingdom
         Tel. +44 2075366000, Email: info@cedr.com, URL: www.cedr.com

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided   
   
      VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
            Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
      The Campus, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6AE, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1707357371, Email: a.harper@welhat.gov.uk, URL: www.welhat.gov.uk

   VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 06/09/2013

ANNEX A

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         1: Contracting Authority
      Broxbourne Borough Council
      Bishops College, Cheshunt, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         2: Contracting Authority
      East Herts District Council
      Wallfields, Hertford, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         3: Contracting Authority
      Hertfordshire County Council
      Pegs Lane, Hertford, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         4: Contracting Authority
      North Herts District Council
      Gernon Road, Letchworth, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         5: Contracting Authority
      Watford Borough Council
      Hempstead Road, Watford, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         6: Contracting Authority
      Hertsmere Borough Council
      Elstree Way, Borehamwood, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         7: Contracting Authority
      St Albans City and District Council
      Civic Offices, St Albans, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         8: Contracting Authority
      Stevenage Borough Council
      Danestrete, Stevenage, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         9: Contracting Authority
      Dacorum Borough Council
      Civic Centre, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         10: Contracting Authority
      Three Rivers District Council
      Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, United Kingdom