Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Penwortham Priory Academy
Crow Hills Road, Penwortham, Preston
Lancashire
PR1 0JE
UK
Telephone: +44 1276673880
E-mail: tenders@litmuspartnership.co.uk
NUTS: UKD4
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.priory.lancs.sch.uk/
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/AKE2SG52PM
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
Penwortham Priory Academy ~ Cleaning Services Tender
II.1.2) Main CPV code
90919300
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for Penwortham Priory Academy (the Client).
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
533 933.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD4
Main site or place of performance:
Lancashire
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Penwortham Priory Academy is an Academy located in the Penwortham area of Preston in Lancashire. The school has approximately 800 pupils.
Priory is a school that has the highest expectations of everyone, is caring, progressive with high academic standards, and where individual pupils learn to succeed.
The school has some of the finest facilities of any school in Lancashire. An on-going refurbishment programme has allowed the school to develop and maintain state of the art facilities to aid learning and teaching within the school.
The school’s cleaning services have been contracted out for a number of years and the school now wishes to put the service out to competitive tender to ensure that it receives best value. It is important to the school that the successful contractor works closely with the school to maintain cleaning standards and provides support to the on site cleaning team. Some of the cleaning staff have been with the school for a long time.
Expressions of interest are invited from Companies who have experience of providing cleaning services to schools and who have the appropriate local resource to support the cleaning service at the school.
The contract will be for a period of three years with the option to extend for a further two years.
See SQ Document for further information.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
533 933.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Start:
01/09/2023
End:
31/08/2028
This contract is subject to renewal: No
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
A minimum of 5 suppliers and a maximum of 10 suppliers will be taken forward to the tender stage of the process. Where less than 5 suppliers meet the minimum standards, only those that meet the minimum standards will be taken through to the tender stage. Where more than 5 suppliers meet the minimum standard, those suppliers with the highest scores will proceed to the tender stage.
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
Yes
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.2) Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
27/01/2023
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.3) Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
Date:
20/03/2023
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
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.
It will be the supplier's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time.
The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this contract notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time.
The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity.
The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
<a href="https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Lancashire:-School-cleaning-services./AKE2SG52PM" target="_blank">https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Lancashire:-School-cleaning-services./AKE2SG52PM</a>
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
<a href="https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/AKE2SG52PM" target="_blank">https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/AKE2SG52PM</a>
GO Reference: GO-2022122-PRO-21636452
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Penwortham Priory Academy
Lancashire
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
02/12/2022