CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Other (Please specify) a company that is supported by a grant from the Regional Growth Fund

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education Other (Please specify) Sharing in Growth UK Limited is a company that is financed mainly by a grant from the Regional Growth Fund and its sole purpose is to support the development of gas turbine supply chain manufacturers.

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

For justification please see section VI.3 of the notice :)

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

A single-supplier framework agreement for the specialist advanced manufacturing training services required to help beneficiary companies improve their manufacturing processes (method of manufacture), the aim being to improve their cost competitiveness. The scope of this service is to include:

The provision of training and support services covering a range of manufacturing processes (primarily machining but including and not limited to welding/ joining, forging, casting, coating, heat treatment, non-destructive testing (NDE), fabrication, rolling, tube/ pipe manufacture, special processes) that will support transformational supplier development activities within the aerospace sharing in growth programmes. The scope of this service is to include:

- The development and application of a diagnostic tool to identify improvement opportunities in manufacturing processes, with the key deliverables being capability and cost reduction.

- With the supplier development team, development of an action plan with the supplier to close any gaps identified by the diagnostic activity

- Provision of all training material for on-site coaching and support

- Provision of any formal training courses identified through the diagnostic process

- Coaching and informal training of approximately 2 days per month in year 1 and 1 day per month in year 2

- Provision of all labour to carry out the diagnostic, formal training and coaching over a period of up to 2 years

- The provider will be expected to work with the Sharing in Growth supplier development teams who will also be working with the supplier

- Planning assumptions are to be based on an average supplier, but there must be flexibility to be able to adapt to specific local conditions.

- They will be an expectation for the provision of up to 5 free of charge days to be used to work with Sharing in Growth teams to agree and refine the material provided.

- There will be a need to consider a wide range of manufacturing processes depending on the specialism of the beneficiary supplier. The provider will act as the “Integrator” and will be responsible for sub-contracting any provision that they cannot supply directly and for managing those sub-contractors.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

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

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

210/MVT

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

This is a Voluntary advertisement as the services to which the procurement relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) (the Regulations) and Annex IIB to Council Directive 2004/18/EC. As such, all stages of the tender process will not be subject to the requirements of the Regulations except those applicable to Part B services. Although the Authority intends that the tender process will follow a procedure similar to the open procedure in certain respects, for the avoidance of doubt the Authority is not running the process as though the open procedure applies, and so reserves the right to depart from that procedure at any point.

Our intention is to create a single-supplier framework agreement for the specialist supplier support and training services required to support the Sharing In Growth programmes which are supported by the Regional Growth Fund . The framework agreement will not guarantee the supplier any subsequent orders, but will enable the Authority to use the approved supplier without the need for further competition. In addition, where Beneficiaries have been approved by SiG, they will be able to place call-off orders directly (funded by the RGF). Bidders are referred to schedule 1 of the framework agreement which sets out particular conditions on ordering, invoicing and payment

This is a Part B Service and the service required is Education. CPV codes used in this notice relation to Engineering Services are only being used to ensure that all possible suppliers are notified.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice