CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL
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Section I: Contracting Authority
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I.1)
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Name, Address and Contact Point(s)
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The Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire |
Arnot Hill House, Arnot Hill Park, Arnold, Nottinghamshire |
Nottingham |
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Mr Paul Whitehall |
+44 3001224683 |
paul.whitehall@emscu.pnn.police.uk |
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www.bluelight.gov.uk
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I.2)
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Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities
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Section II: Object of the Contract
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II.1)
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Description
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II.1.1)
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Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authorityInternal Audit Services. |
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Type of works contract
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Type of supplies contract
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Type of service contract6 |
II.1.2)
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Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance
The East Midlands Region of Police and Crime Commissioners for Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire.
UKF |
II.1.3)
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This notice involves
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II.1.4)
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Information on framework agreement (if applicable)
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Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged
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Duration of the framework agreement48 |
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Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years
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Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
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Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded |
II.1.5)
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Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Provision of Internal Audit Services to the East Midlands Region of Police & Crime Commissioners for Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire, as per the ITT requirements and terms.
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II.1.6)
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Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
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79212200 |
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II.1.7)
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Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) |
II.1.8)
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Division into lots No |
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Will variants be accepted
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II.2)
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Quantity or Scope of the Contract
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II.2.1)
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Total quantity or scopeThe Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire is looking to establish a single supplier Framework Agreement for the Police and Crime Commissioners of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire. Call-Off Contracts by means of Direct Award will then be entered into by each of the participating Police & Crime Commissioners, against the requirements and terms set out in the Invitation to Tender documentation. |
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1 180 000 GBP |
II.2.2)
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Options |
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Provisional timetable for recourse to these options
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Number of possible renewals
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In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts
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II.3)
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Duration of the contract or limit for completion48 |
Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information
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III.1)
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Conditions Relating to the Contract
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III.1.1)
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Deposits and guarantees required
To be detailed as part of the Invitation to Tender information as applicable.
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III.1.2)
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Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions
To be detailed as part of the Invitation to Tender information as applicable.
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III.1.3)
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Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded
To be detailed as part of the Invitation to Tender information as applicable.
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III.1.4)
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Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject
Such Key Performance Indicators as detailed within the Invitation to Tender documentation. Neither can the service be tendered for / carried out by any organisation already acting as external auditor for any one or more of the police forces referred to in this Notice.
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III.2)
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Conditions for Participation
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III.2.1)
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Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
Any supplier may be disqualified who:
(a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;
(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order compulsory winding up the administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations;
(c) has been convicted by a judgement which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct;
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contract authorities can demonstrate;
(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information;
(h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organization, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA;
(i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;
(j)has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities;
(k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
Refer to the PQQ documentation for further detail.
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Economic and financial capacity
(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 3 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 of these turnovers is available.
Refer to the PQQ documentation for further detail.
Refer to the PQQ documentation for further detail.
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Technical capacity
(a) a list of the works carried out over the past 5 years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct;
(b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past 3 years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: — where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issues or countersigned by the competent authority, — where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;
(c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work;
(d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities;
(e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production capabilities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;
(f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;
(g) for public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in appropriate cases, and indication of the environmental management measures that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the contract;
(h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last 3 years;
(i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contracts;
(j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract;
(k) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so request; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognized competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.
Refer to the PQQ documentation for further detail.
Refer to the PQQ documentation for further detail.
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III.2.4)
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Reserved contracts
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III.3)
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Conditions Specific to Service Contracts
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III.3.1)
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Is provision of the service reserved to a specific profession? Yes
Internal Audit Services will need to be carried out by appropriately qualified persons. |
III.3.2)
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Will legal entities be required to state the names and professional qualifications of the personnel responsible for the execution of the service? Yes |
Section IV: Procedure
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IV.1)
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Type of Procedure
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Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure
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IV.1.1)
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Have candidates already been selected? No |
IV.1.2)
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Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate5 |
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Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates
Refer to the PQQ documentation for further detail.
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IV.1.3)
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Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
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IV.2)
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Award Criteria
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No
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No
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IV.2.2)
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An electronic auction will be used No
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IV.3 Administrative Information
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IV.3.1)
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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority
SOR1000248
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IV.3.2)
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Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
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Other previous publications
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IV.3.3)
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Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
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IV.3.4)
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Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate 26-01-2015
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IV.3.5)
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Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates 30-1-2015
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IV.3.6)
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Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up
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IV.3.7)
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Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
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IV.3.8)
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Conditions for opening tenders
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6-3-2015
12:00
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Section VI: Other Information
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VI.1)
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Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published
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VI.2)
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Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds? No
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VI.3)
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Additional Information
The Police and Crime Commissioners for Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire, will enter direct into contracts but with a single appointed service provider common to all 5 Police and Crime Commissioners. Each Police and Crime Commissioner will be billed monthly @ 1/12th of the overall annual sum due to be reimbursed to the appointed service provider in respect of each Police and Crime Commissioner.
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VI.4)
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Procedures for appeal
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VI.4.1)
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Body responsible for appeal procedures
East Midlands Strategic Commercial Unit |
Derbyshire Constabulary Police, Headquarters, Butterley Hall |
Ripley |
DE5 3RS |
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paul.whitehall@emscu.pnn.police.uk |
+44 3001224683 |
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Body responsible for mediation procedures
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VI.4.2)
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Lodging of appeals
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VI.4.3)
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Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
East Midlands Strategic Commercial Unit |
Derbyshire Constabulary Police, Headquarters, Butterley Hall |
Ripley |
DE5 3RS |
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paul.whitehall@emscu.pnn.police.uk |
+44 3001224683 |
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Dispatch date of this Notice 24-12-2014 |
ANNEX A
Additional Addresses and Contact Points
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Address and contact points from which further information can be obtained
Internal Audit Services |
All correspondence to be submitted via bluelight @ www.bluelight.gov.uk, reference 9RLG - QNES17 |
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Address and contact points from which specifications and additional documentation may be obtained
Internal Audit Services |
All corrrespondence to be submitted via bluelight @ www.bluelight.gov.uk, reference 9RLG - QNES17 |
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III)
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Address and contact points to which Tenders/Requests to Participate must be sent
Internal Audit Services |
All correspondence to be submitted via bluelight @ www.bluelight.gov.uk, reference 9RLG - QNES17 |
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