Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
29 Clarendon Road, Clarendon Dock
Belfast
BT3 3BG
UK
Contact person: Paul Clements
E-mail: paul.clements@finance-ni.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.ccea.org.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/topics/procurement
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Education
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
CCEA Provision of courier services.
II.1.2) Main CPV code
64120000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Northern Ireland Council for the curriculum, examinations, and assessment (the Client) advises the Education Minister on what is to be taught in Northern Ireland schools and on the examination and assessment arrangements for pupils.
The Client also conducts pupil assessment at the end of Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. As well as the above, the Client ensures that the qualifications and examinations offered by awarding bodies in Northern Ireland are of an appropriate quality and standard.
The Client has been responsible for providing Northern Ireland GCSE and GCE A/AS and its predecessor examinations since 1970. In excess of 650 examination papers are offered to candidates in a variety of subjects annually. The Client requires a competent Contractor for the provision of courier services.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
2 527 500.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
64110000
64100000
64000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Northern Ireland Council for the curriculum, examinations, and assessment (the Client) advises the Education Minister on what is to be taught in Northern Ireland schools and on the examination and assessment arrangements for pupils.
The Client also conducts pupil assessment at the end of Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. As well as the above, the Client ensures that the qualifications and examinations offered by awarding bodies in Northern Ireland are of an appropriate quality and standard.
The Client has been responsible for providing Northern Ireland GCSE and GCE A/AS and its predecessor examinations since 1970. In excess of 650 examination papers are offered to candidates in a variety of subjects annually. The Client requires a competent Contractor for the provision of courier services.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 60
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
Estimated Value: The figure indicated in II.1.5 represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from £1 685 000.00 to £2 527 500.00. This range reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the scope/and or scale which may result from future operational requirements.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
23/01/2018
Local time: 15:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is. paying for.
— if a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to. improve.
— if, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be. escalated to senior management in CPD for further action.
— if this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may. be issued with a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated.
The issue of a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being. excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies. covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate.
The Authority expressly reserves the rights:
— not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice,
— to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition; and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures
N/A
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
As this competition is for Schedule 3 Social and Other Specific Services of the. Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Regulations 5(1) (d) and 74 to 76 are applicable. CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, may incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers.
This notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
13/12/2017