University of Bath: Provision of Learning and Development Services

UK-Bath: Staff training services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      University of Bath
      Purchasing Services, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1225385470, Email: e.chamberlain@bath.ac.uk, URL: www.bath.ac.uk
      Contact: Emma Chamberlain, Attn: Emma Chamberlain

      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:
      Education

   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: Provision of Learning and Development Services
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 24

         Region Codes: UKK12 - Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire         
      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:
         Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement:
                                    
            Range between: 200,000 and 350,000
            Currency: GBP
                  
      II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Staff training services. The University of Bath invites expressions of interest to supply learning and development services to University staff (including professionals, academics and researchers) and postgraduate research students, in one or more of the following general areas;
• Leadership and management,
• Effective working skills,
• Skills for research practice,
• Skills for Public Engagement,
• Skills for University teaching,
• IT skills for software used in research data management and analysis,
• IT technical skills training,
• Career development for researchers.
• Health, safety and well being

Successful tenderers will have proven capability of designing and delivering events and programmes for a wide range of staff in a knowledge-intensive environment.

They will have demonstrable ability to work effectively in the UK Higher Education environment, across the very broad range of people who may be participants. They will be able to work in English as a main language and to travel cost-effectively to Bath and neighbouring institutions for meetings and day events.
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80511000 - Staff training services.
         

      II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): Not Provided      
      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: Not Provided   
   
   II.2)Quantity Or Scope Of The Contract
      II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
      Not Provided      
      
      II.2.2)Options: Not Provided         
         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      
      Not Provided
   Information About Lots
            
      Lot No: 1
      Title: Leadership and Management

      1)Short Description:      
      Themes might include:

Leading teams, academic leadership, practical management skills, coaching, managing performance, recruiting and selecting staff, turning strategy into action, strategic planning, leading and managing organisational change.

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80511000 - Staff training services.
                  80500000 - Training 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: Effective Working Skills

      1)Short Description:      
      Themes might include:

Communicating with skill and confidence, influence and negotiation, working in teams, working with change, project management, (academic and professional) writing skills, customer service.

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80511000 - Staff training services.
                  80500000 - Training 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: Skills for Research Practice

      1)Short Description:      
      Examples might include:

People management, PhD supervision collaboration, publication, project planning and delivery, risk management, income and funding generation, financial management, research data management, impact, research methods, critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, consulting skills

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80500000 - Training services.
                  80511000 - Staff training 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: Skills for Public Engagement

      1)Short Description:      
      Examples might include:

Introductory skills for public engagement, understanding audiences, writing and presenting for non-academic audiences, evaluating engagement and understanding the impact of engagement, reflective practice, Patient Public Involvement (PPI), working effectively with the media, social media for engagement, Creative tools for Public Engagement, Research/art collaborations, creative thinking skills, Ethics of Engaged Research

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80500000 - Training services.
                  80511000 - Staff training 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: Skills for University teaching

      1)Short Description:      
      Examples might include:
Small and large group teaching, demonstrating, feedback,

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80500000 - Training services.
                  80511000 - Staff training 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: IT skills for software used in research data management and analysis

      1)Short Description:      
      Examples might include: SPSS, Nvivo, R, LaTeX

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80500000 - Training services.
                  80511000 - Staff training 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: IT technical skills training

      1)Short Description:      
      Examples might include:

Mac OS X Support Essentials 10.11, Mac Support for PC Technicians v10.11, Windows Support and administration, OSX Server Essentials 10.10, Introduction to Linux / Unix, Linux Administration, Exchange 2013 and Skype for Business Administration & Design,, SharePoint Administration & Design, Comp TIA A+, SQL Programming, Java Script and JQuery, PowerShell, Puppet, ITIL

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80511000 - Staff training services.
                  80500000 - Training 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: 8
      Title: Career development for researchers

      1)Short Description:      
      Examples might include:

Career management, networking, reputation and esteem, interview skills, CV writing

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80511000 - Staff training services.
                  80500000 - Training 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: 9
      Title: Health, safety and wellbeing

      1)Short Description:      
      Examples might include:
Accredited Managing and Working Safely qualifications, Stress Management (aimed at managers and individuals), Risk Assessment, COSHH, Manual Handling, General Health and Safety Awareness training, Work at Heights.

      2)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         80511000 - Staff training services.
                  80500000 - Training 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:
      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:
         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.

      Please see PQQ      
      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:
         Please see PQQ         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         Please see PQQ
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         Please see PQQ         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         Please see PQQ      
      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:
                Not Provided
   
   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: Not Provided
   IV.3)Administrative Information
      IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: UoBath/Proc/418      
      IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Not Provided
      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: 04/04/2016
         Time: 10:00      
      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: 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: This tender is being conducted as part of the University of Bath's eTendering programme run in conjunction with BIPS DELTA. Expressions of interest in this opportunity, further information and/or documents are available at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com. To express an interest in this opportunity you must register on this site to obtain a login and password (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 home page. You must log in and go to Your Response Manager and add the following Access Code: FVEU2PX8U4. Please ensure you follow all instructions provided to you there. The deadline for submitting your response is 10:00hrs on the 4th April 2016. Please ensure that you allow plenty of time when responding especially if you are required to upload response documents. Please note late responses cannot be accepted. If you experience any technical difficulties please contact the Delta eSourcing help desk on +44 8452707050 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.comThe 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.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Bath:-Staff-training-services./FVEU2PX8U4

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/FVEU2PX8U4
GO-201633-PRO-7848131 TKR-201633-PRO-7848130
   
   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      University of Bath
      Purchasing Services, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1225385470, Email: e.chamberlain@bath.ac.uk, URL: www.bath.ac.uk

      Body responsible for mediation procedures:
               University of Bath
         Purchasing Services, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
         Tel. +44 1225385470, Email: e.chamberlain@bath.ac.uk, URL: www.bath.ac.uk

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided   
   
      VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
            University of Bath
      Purchasing Services, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1225385470, Email: e.chamberlain@bath.ac.uk, URL: www.bath.ac.uk

   VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 03/03/2016

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