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

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 UK.

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)

United Learning Trust proposes to create a Framework Agreement for the Provision of Water and Sewerage Services and Ancillary Goods and Services.. The Framework Agreement will have a maximum duration of 48 months. The duration of the Framework is for a three (3) year period with an option to extend for one (1) year. The Framework Agreement will be divided into 2 Lots; Lot 1 is for Water Supply and Sewerage Services; it is anticipated that this Lot will be awarded to several suppliers; Lot 2 is for Ancillary Goods and Services: it is anticipated that this Lot will be awarded to one, three or more suppliers. Bidders may submit tenders for either one or both Lots.

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.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

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

Parent company and/or other guarantees of performance and financial liability may be required if considered appropriate.

III.1.2)

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

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

III.1.4)

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

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

III.3)

Conditions Specific to Service Contracts

III.3.1)

Is provision of the service reserved to a specific profession?

III.3.2)

Will legal entities be required to state the names and professional qualifications of the personnel responsible for the execution of the service?

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

ULT/02/17/INSE

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

A full copy of the documentation relating to this procurement process will be made available, free of charge, upon email request to Ojeu.tenders@inspiredenergy.co.uk. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award any Framework Agreement as part of this procurement process and to make any changes to the content and structure of the tender competition as it may consider appropriate. The value stated at Section 11.2.1 is purely an estimate; the Framework Agreement can offer no guarantee of business to Suppliers.

United Learning Trust wishes to establish a Framework agreement that is accessible by the following UK Public Sector Bodies/Organisations (and any future successors to these organisations):

NHS Bodies England:

http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx

http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx

http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx

http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AmbulanceTrustListing.aspx

http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx

http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/OtherListing.aspx

Hospices in the UK:

http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/about-hospice-care/find-a-hospice/uk-hospice-and-palliative-care-services/

https://www.hospiceuk.org/?gclid=COiD1Kv_39ACFaQV0wodQHgILg

http://www.nahf.org.uk/hospice-directory.html

Registered Social Landlords (Housing Associations)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/current-registered-providers-of-social-housing

Third Sector and Charities in the United Kingdom

http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/

http://www.oscr.org.uk/search-charity-register/

https://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/RegisterHomePage.aspx https://www.gov.uk/find-charity-information

http://www.oscr.org.uk/charities/search-scottish-charity-register

Citizens Advice in the United Kingdom http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/getadvice.htm

www.cas.org.uk http://www.citizensadvice.co.uk/

Local Authorities:

http://openlocal.com/councils/all

http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/org/la-data.do

www.ubico.co.uk Agent acting on behalf of Cheltenham Borough Council

NDPBs https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations

National Parks Authorities http://www.nationalparks.gov.uk/

Educational Establishments in England and Wales, maintained by the Department for Children, Schools andFamilies including Schools, Universities and Colleges but not Independent Schools

http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml

Police Forces in the United Kingdom http://www.police.uk/?view=force_sites

http://apccs.police.uk/about-the-apcc/

Fire and Rescue Services in the United Kingdom

http://www.fireservice.co.uk/information/ukfrs

http://www.nifrs.org/areas-districts/

http://www.firescotland.gov.uk/your-area.aspx

Welsh Public Bodies.

National Assembly for Wales,

Welsh Assembly Government and Welsh Local Authorities, and all bodies covered by: http://www.assemblywales.org/abthome/abt-links.htm http://new.wales.gov.uk/about/civilservice/directorates/?lang=enNHS Wales http://www.wales.nhs.uk/ourservices/directory Housing Associations — Registered Social LandlordsWales

NI Public Bodies Northern Ireland Government Departments:

https://www.northernireland.gov.uk

Northern Ireland Public Sector Bodies and Local Authorities http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/az2.htm Schools in Northern Ireland http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/search.lsim?sr=0&nh=10&cs=iso-8859-1&sc=nidirectcms&sm=0&mt=1&ha=nidirect-cms&cat=Banner&qt=SCHOOLS

Universities in Northern Ireland:

http://www.deni.gov.uk/links.htm#colleges

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/housing-associations

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/universities-and-colleges-northern-ireland

Health and Social care in Northern Ireland:

http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=hospitals http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=boards http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=agencies http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=councils

Northern Ireland Housing Associations:

http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/contacts/contacts-az.htm/housing-associations-contact Police Service ofNorthern Ireland http://www.psni.police.uk/index.htm

Police Service of Northern Ireland:

http://www.psni.police.uk/index.htm

Scottish Public Bodies:

The Framework Agreement will be available for use by any Scottish Public Sector Body: the Authority; ScottishNon-Departmental Public Bodies; offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices;crossborder public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998; the Scotland Office;the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body; councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Governmentetc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (except where they are acting in their capacity as educational authority); Scottishjoint fire boards or joint fire and rescue boards; Scottish joint police boards or any successor National Policeor Fire Authority; Scottish National Park authorities, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing(Scotland) Act 2001, Scottish health boards or special health boards, Student Loans Company Limited,Northern Lighthouse Board, Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC Ltd) and their memberorganisations across the higher and further education sector in Scotland, associated and affiliated bodiesincluding overseas campuses, any further or higher education institutions being fundable bodies within themeaning of section 6 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 any public body establishedby or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by oneor more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors ormembers of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointedby one or more of the foregoing.

Scottish Government http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Home Scottish Parliament http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/abouttheparliament/27110.aspx Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Scottish Information Commissionerfor Children and Young People in Scotland Scottish Commission for Human Rights Commission for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland Standards Commission for Scotland Scottish Local Authoritieshttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Government/councils http://www.scotland-excel.org.uk/home/AboutUs/OurMembers/AssociateMembers.aspx Scottish Agencies, NDPBs http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies Scottish NHS Bodies http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Workforce/NHS-Boards Scottish Further and Higher Education Bodies http://www.universities-scotland.ac.uk/index.php?page=members http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/membershttp://www.sfc.ac.uk/aboutus/council_funded_institutions/WhoWeFundColleges.aspx Scottish Police http://www.scotland.police.uk/your-community/ Scottish Housing Associations http://www.sfha.co.uk/component/option,com_membersdir/Itemid,149/view,membersdir/ The Scotland Office http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/scotlandoffice/33.30.htmlRegistered Social Landlords (Housing Associations) — Scotland.

http://www.scotland.police.uk/police-stations/

http://www.scotland-excel.org.uk/home/Aboutus/Ourmembers/Our_members.aspxhttp://www.scotland-excel.org.uk/Scottish Schools Primary Schools

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/index.asp?schoolsearchstring=&addresssearchstring=&authority=&strTypes=isprimaryschool&bSubmit=1&Submit=Search

Secondary Schools:

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/index.asp?schoolsearchstring=&addresssearchstring=&authority=&strTypes=issecondaryschool&bSubmit=1&Submit=Search

Special Schools:

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/index.asp?schoolsearchstring=&addresssearchstring=&authority=&strTypes=isspecial&bSubmit=1&Submit=Search

Scottish Public Bodies.

National Records of Scotland.

Historic Scotland.

Disclosure Scotland.

Registers of Scotland.

Scottish Qualification Authority.

Scottish Courts Service.

Scottish Prison Service.

Transport Scotland.

The Scottish Government Core Directorates.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service.

Scottish Police Authority.

National Museums of Scotland.

Scottish Children's Reporter Administration.

Scottish Enterprise.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

Scottish Legal Aid Board.

Scottish Natural Heritage.

Skills Development Scotland.

Visit Scotland.

Aberdeen City Council ,Aberdeenshire Council ,Angus Council ,Argyll and Bute Council ,City of EdinburghCouncil ,Clackmannanshire Council.

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar ,Dumfries and Galloway Council,Dundee City Council ,East Ayrshire Council ,EastDunbartonshire Council ,East Lothian Council ,East Renfrewshire Council ,Falkirk Council ,Fife Council.

Glasgow City Council ,Highland Council, Inverclyde Council ,Midlothian Council ,Moray Council, The NorthAyrshire Council ,North Lanarkshire Council ,Orkney Islands Council ,Perth and Kinross Council.

Renfrewshire Council ,Scottish Borders Council ,Shetland Islands Council.

South Ayrshire Council ,South Lanarkshire Council ,Stirling Council.

West Dunbartonshire Council ,West Lothian Council.

Central Scotland Fire and Rescue Service ,Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Service ,Fife Fire andRescue Service ,Grampian Fire and Rescue Service ,Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service.

Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service ,Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service ,Tayside Fire and RescueService.

Golden Jubilee Hospital (National Waiting Times Centre Board).

NHS 24.

NHS Ayrshire and Arran.

NHS Borders.

NHS Dumfries and Galloway.

NHS Education for Scotland.

NHS Fife.

NHS Forth Valley.

NHS Grampian.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

NHS Health Scotland.

NHS Highland.

NHS Lanarkshire.

NHS Lothian.

NHS Orkney.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland.

NHS Shetland.

NHS Tayside.

NHS Western Isles.

Scottish Ambulance Service.

The Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service.

The State Hospital for Scotland.

Scottish Further Education and Higher Education http://www.universities-scotland.ac.uk/index.php?page=members

http://www.sfc.ac.uk/aboutus/council_funded_institutions/WhoWeFundColleges

Ayrshire College.

Borders College.

City of Glasgow College.

Dumfries and Galloway College.

Dundee and Angus College.

Edinburgh College.

Fife College.

Forth Valley College.

Glasgow Clyde College.

Glasgow Kelvin College.

Inverness College.

Lews Castle College.

Moray College.

New College Lanarkshire.

Newbattle Abbey College.

North East Scotland College.

North Highland College.

Orkney College.

Perth College.

Sabhal Mor Ostaig.

Shetland College.

South Lanarkshire College.

West College Scotland.

West Highland College.

West Lothian College.

Albertay University.

Edinburgh Napier University.

Glasgow Caledonian University.

Glasgow School of Art.

Heriot-Watt University.

Queen Margaret University.

Robert Gordon University.

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Scottish Association for Marine Science.

SRUC.

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Scottish Agricultural College.

UHI Millennium Institute.

University of Aberdeen.

University of Abertay Dundee.

University of Dundee.

University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh College of Art).

University of Glasgow.

University of St Andrews.

University of Stirling.

University of Strathclyde.

University of the Highlands and Islands.

University of the West of Scotland.

Scottish Funding Council.

College Development Network.

Argyll College.

Highland Theological College.

The James Hutton Institute.

Fraunhöfer UK Research Limited.

UHI Shared Services Limited.

Cairngorms National Park Authority.

Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.

Forestry Commission Scotland.

Audit Scotland.

Entities which are not public sector bodies may also use the Framework Agreements if the Authority is satisfied that: such entity is calling off Goods and Services directly, solely and exclusively in order to satisfy contractual obligations to one (1) or more public sector bodies, all of which are entitled to use the Framework Agreementson their own account; all Goods and Services to be called-off by it are to be used directly, solely and exclusively to provide energy at sites occupied by such public sector body(ies); and it will pass the benefit of the Call-Off Contract to such public sector body(ies) directly, in full and on a purely ‘pass-through’ basis. Accordingly there must be no mark-up, management fee, service charge or any similar cost solely in relation to the supply of energy imposed on the relevant public sector body(ies), who must be able to benefit from the terms of the Framework Agreements in a like manner and to the same extent as if using the Framework Agreements on its/their own account.

This Framework Agreement will also be accessible for use by any corporation established, or a group of individuals appointed to act together, for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, nothaving an industrial or commercial character, and

(i) financed wholly or mainly by another Contracting Authority (listed above in this section VI.3) of this notice;

(ii) subject to management supervision by another Contracting Authority (listed above in this section VI.3) of this notice; or

(iii) more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, are appointed by another Contracting Authority (listed above in this section VI.3)of this notice;

(iv) an association of or formed by one (1) or more of the Contracting Authorities (listed above in this section VI.3) of this notice.

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

Supplier is required to hold and maintain a valid Water Supply and sewerage Licence throughout the Framework Agreement. The supplier shall deliver services in connection with the supply of water and sewerage services as required by Contracting Authorities at the Call Off stage.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Supplier shall provide the Ancillary Goods and Services including but not limited to:

— Water Saving Devices,

— Tariff optimisation and benchmarking,

— Water Audit Site Surveys & Reporting,

— Leak detection and repair,

— Alternative water supplies,

— Self-Supply Feasibility Study,

— Legionella risk assessments,

— AMR / Water Flow Data Logging/Remote Consumption Monitoring,

— Bill Validation/Bureau Service.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots