SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): University of Birmingham,
Finance Office, Procurement Division, Edgbaston, Contact:
www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham, Attn: Marie Clayton MCIPS,
UK-Birmingham B15 2TT. Tel. +44 1214158807. E-mail:
m.clayton@bham.ac.uk.
Fax +44 1214143459.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
www.bham.ac.uk.
Address of the buyer profile:
www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham.
Further information can be obtained at: URL:
www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham.
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
URL:
www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham.
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: URL:
www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham.
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Body governed by public law.
Education.
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:
Window Cleaning Services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 14.
Main place of performance: University of Birmingham.
NUTS code: UKG31.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with a
single operator.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The University
of Birmingham has a requirement to establish a contract for the periodic
cleaning of both internal and external glass surfaces of buildings having
between one and fourteen storeys across the campus through processes to be
prescribed by the tenderer. The University is therefore inviting
expressions of interest from appropriately qualified and experienced
contractors to provide these services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 90911000, 90911300.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.
Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.2) Options: No.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: Payment of Invoices
will be 30 days from date of Invoice.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Limited Company, joint and several
liability.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: 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 requirements are met: Tenderers
will be required to complete a Pre Qualification Questionnaire which will
require that the provider submits the details below in addition to the
other information set out in the Questionnaire, these can be obtained
www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: As requested in the Pre Qualification
Questionnaire.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
III.3.2) Legal entities 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: Restricted.
IV.1.3) Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or
dialogue: Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of
solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no.
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) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
FRAM038/09.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive document: Time limit for receipt of requests for documents
or for accessing documents: 9.4.2009 - 12:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
9.4.2009 - 12:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 5.3.2009.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.
Conditions for opening tenders: Persons authorised to be present
at the opening of tenders: no.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Expression of Interest will be required
in the form of a completed Pre Qualification Questionnaire. This document
is available at.
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 5.3.2009.
