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

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

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

Natural England

Defra

Environment Agency

CEFAS

Marine Management Organisation

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

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

United Kingdom.

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

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)

Natural England is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Food and Rural Affairs. Natural England's role is to provide advice and an evidence base to government and regulators to improve decision making in the marine environment and deliver environmental objectives. This Notice is being issued to highlight the Invitation to Tender for the five lot, multi-supplier marine monitoring framework. This framework will improve the evidence base through data collection and analysis to guide and inform effective and practical marine conservation. The Authority has discretion to award by Direct Award or Mini-Competition. Differing survey methods have been broken down into separate lots, with a framework being placed to deliver each lot covering the following areas:

Northern North Sea;

Southern North Sea;

Eastern Channel;

Southern;

South west;

Irish Sea;

Natural England is establishing this framework for the provision of services to NE and;

— Defra;

— Environment Agency;

— Cefas;

— MMO;

— JNCC.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

one lot only

one or more lots

all lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

DEFRA reserves the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds and/or other forms of appropriate security.

III.1.2)

Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

Please see Invitation to Tender.

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

Please see Invitation to Tender 3.47 Consortia.

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

The Authority's terms and conditions are attached to the Invitation to Tender.

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

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

Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once). — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://defra.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register. — Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’. — Enter your correct business and user details. — Note the username you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete. — You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure). 2. Express an Interest in the tender. — Login to the portal with the username/password. — Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link (these are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier). — Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content. — Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page. — This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs’ page (this is a secure area reserved for your projects only). - You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’ box. 3. Responding to the tender. — Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason if declining). — You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification. — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT. — There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available). You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.

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

22399

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

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once). — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://defra.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register. — Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’. — Enter your correct business and user details. — Note the username you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete. — You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure). 2. Express an Interest in the tender. — Login to the portal with the username/password. — Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link (these are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier). — Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content. — Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page. — This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs’ page (this is a secure area reserved for your projects only). - You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’ box. 3. Responding to the tender. — Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason if declining). — You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification. — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT — There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available). You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.

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

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

The role of this Lot is to acquire high quality remotely sensed and/or ground truthing survey data of suitable resolution to provide a sound evidence base to contribute to long term monitoring, and Natural England led condition assessments.

For each feature/sub feature the ecological attributes for which survey data is required will be made clear during the mini-competition process. Natural England will consider what attributes are relevant, these will be guided by the most up to date site conservation advice packages as well as Common Standards Monitoring (CSM).

Below are some examples of reef feature monitoring attributes for which data could be provided;

— Extent of features and sub features;

— Distribution and spatial pattern of notable communities;

— Presence of representative/ notable biotopes;

— Species composition of representative or notable biotopes;

— Presence and/or abundance of specified species.

These attributes are not exhaustive and the wording of these may alter through the revision of conservation advice packages.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

The role of this Lot is to acquire survey data to provide a sound evidence base to contribute to long term monitoring and Natural England-led condition assessment of Annex 1 habitats, taking account of current and potential future pressures affecting these sites.

This Lot comprises in-situ sampling but sample in fauna and particle size analysis will be undertaken by a third party contractor under a separate Natural England/Environment Agency Framework.

The work may be located within and/or outside designated sites, and the geographical scope of work undertaken within this Lot will be:

— Within England;

— Within cross border Marine Protected Areas between England and Wales, and England and Scotland, if conducted on behalf of Natural England.

Contractors under this Lot may also be required by Natural England to work collaboratively with contractors working under other Lots (particularly Lot 1) and/or partners of Natural England.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

The role of this Lot is to collate available remotely sensed (primarily, but not limited to, sidescan and multibeam bathymetry and backscatter) and ground truthing survey data and to interpret these data to provide high quality data products which will form a sound evidence base to contribute to long term monitoring, and Natural England led condition assessments.

For each feature/sub feature the ecological attributes for which survey data is required will be made clear during the mini-competition process. Natural England will consider what attributes are relevant, these will be guided by the most up to date site conservation advice packages as well as Common Standards Monitoring (CSM).

Below are some examples of monitoring attributes for which data could be provided;

— Extent and distribution of features and sub-features;

— Distribution and spatial pattern of notable communities;

— Presence of representative/ notable communities / biotope;

— Presence and/or abundance of specified species.

These attributes are not exhaustive and the wording of these may alter through the revision of conservation advice packages.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

The role of this Lot is to acquire high quality remotely sensed and/or ground truthing survey data of suitable resolution to provide a sound evidence base to contribute to long term monitoring, and Natural England led condition assessments.

For each feature/sub-feature the ecological attributes for which survey data is required will be made clear during the mini-competition process. Natural England will consider what attributes are relevant, these will be guided by the most up to date site conservation advice packages as well as Common Standards Monitoring (CSM).

Below are some examples of reef feature monitoring attributes for which data could be provided;

— Extent of features and sub-features;

— Distribution and spatial pattern of notable communities;

— Presence of representative/ notable biotopes;

— Species composition of representative or notable biotopes;

— Presence and/or abundance of specified species.

These attributes are not exhaustive and the wording of these may alter through the revision of conservation advice packages.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

The role of this Lot is to acquire high quality dive survey data of suitable resolution to provide a sound evidence base to contribute to long term monitoring, and Natural England led condition assessments.

For each feature/sub feature the ecological attributes for which survey data is required will be made clear during the mini-competition process. Natural England will consider what attributes are relevant, these will be guided by the most up to date site conservation advice packages as well as Common Standards Monitoring (CSM).

Below are some examples of reef feature monitoring attributes for which data could be provided;

— Extent of features and sub-features

— Distribution and spatial pattern of notable communities;

— Presence of representative/ notable biotopes;

— Species composition of representative or notable biotopes;

— Presence and/or abundance of specified species.

These attributes are not exhaustive and the wording of these may alter through the revision of conservation advice packages.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.