Commercial Services: Supply of Biomass Wood Pellets

UK-Newport: Wood fuels.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Office for National Statistics
      Government Buildings, Cardiff Road, Newport, NP10 8XG, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1633456035, Email: pu.projects@ons.gsi.gov.uk, URL: www.statistics.gov.uk
      Contact: pu.projects@ons.gsi.gov.uk, Attn: Amy Jones
      Electronic Access URL: www.delta-esourcing.com
      Electronic Submission URL: as above

      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: Non Departmental Government Body

   I.3) Main activity:
      Other: Office for National Statistics is the Contracting Authority that provides UK Statistical 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: SUPPLIES
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: Supply of Biomass Wood Pellets
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SUPPLIES
         Purchase

         Region Codes: UKL21 - Monmouthshire and Newport         
      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:
      Wood fuels. Fuel wood. The ONS has two Endress USF-W Biomass Boilers which use Wood Pellet. The boilers are fed from two 30 tonne capacity wood silos. The product to be supplied is an ENPlus A1 6mm pellet that must conform to the industry standard EN14961. The heating season runs from the 1st October to the 30th April. Historic consumption figures indicate that we use 500-600 tonnes of pellet per annum, 70 -85 tonne per month dependent upon weather conditions.
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         09111400 - Wood fuels.
         
         03413000 - Fuel wood.
         

      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 ONS has two Endress USF-W Biomass Boilers which use Wood Pellet. The boilers are fed from two 30 tonne capacity wood silos. The product to be supplied is an ENPlus A1 6mm pellet that must conform to the industry standard EN14961. The heating season runs from the 1st October to the 30th April. Historic consumption figures indicate that we use 500-600 tonnes of pellet per annum, 70 -85 tonne per month dependent upon weather conditions.         
         Estimated value excluding VAT: 500,000
         Currency: GBP
                        
      
      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      
         Duration in months: 36 (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:
      As per tender documentation
      
      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:Yes       
      If Yes, description of particular conditions:
      As per tender documentation      
   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:         
         (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.
         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         The product to be supplied is an ENPlus A1 6mm pellet that must conform to the industry standard EN14961.
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         As per tender documentation         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         The product to be supplied is an ENPlus A1 6mm pellet that must conform to the industry standard EN14961.      
      III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts: 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
            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: PU-15-0111      
      IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No

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



         Payable documents: No       
      
      IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
         Date: 27/07/2015
         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
         Until: 2015-07-28 00:00:00.0
      
      IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders
         Date: 27/07/2015
         Time: 17:00
         Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: No


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.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Newport:-Wood-fuels./ZN9JB9T4Q3

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/ZN9JB9T4Q3
GO-2015625-PRO-6718800 TKR-2015625-PRO-6718799
   
   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      Office for National Statistics
      Government Buildings, Cardiff Road, Newport, NP10 8XG, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1633456035, Email: pu.projects@ons.gsi.gov.uk

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: ONS will incorporate a minimum 10 calander days stand still period at the point information on the award of the contrcat is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from ONS before the contract is entered into. Applicants have two working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of three working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be required from the contact point shown in I.1If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or 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 (generally within three months). Where a contract has not been entered into, the court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order ONS to amend any document and may award damages. If a contract has been entered into, the court may only award damages.   
   
      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: 25/06/2015

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