Contract award notice – utilities
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
United Utilities Water Ltd
02366678
Haweswater House, Lingley Mere Business Park, Lingley Green Avenue Great, Sankey
Warrington
WA5 3LP
UK
Contact person: Amy Foxall
Telephone: +44 1925678022
E-mail: RegulatoryProcurementTeam@uuplc.co.uk
NUTS: UKD
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.unitedutilities.com/corporate
I.6) Main activity
Water
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
PRO004256 — Services — Framework — Sampling and Analysis (CIP3)
II.1.2) Main CPV code
71900000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) Chemical Investigations Programme (CIP) is an ongoing research programme that addresses the likely implications of environmental legislation for the UK water industry. It has primarily been addressing the consequences of legislation relating to trace substances in the water environment. It is coordinated by UKWIR as a collaborative programme involving the 10 water companies in England and Wales.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Lowest offer:
/ Highest offer:
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
73111000
71621000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The third phase of the UKWIR Chemical Investigations Programme follows on from the second phase (CIP2) that has been scheduled to be completed in 2020. The main aims of CIP3 are to:
(a) elucidate some of the findings of CIP2 with respect to contaminant sources, including a further look at trends;
(b) address emerging concerns including antimicrobial resistance and micro plastics;
(c) extend the scope of monitoring to groundwater, estuarine and coastal waters and bio solids; and
(d) provide better understanding of new and existing approaches to wastewater treatment.
As such, the future programme is more varied in scope than CIP2, having 16 different elements designated as Chem0 to Chem14a (these ‘Chem’ numbers refer to elements in the water industry national environment programme).
Scientific services role in this project is to provide sampling and analytical services to aid the company’s participation in CIP3. As part of this project we are seeking a third party supplier of analytical services for determinands that scientific services do not have the capacity to test.
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 IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to a procedure with prior call for competition
Explanation
An additional questions (AQ) event was launched on the Achilles UVDB platform on 3.12.2019 with a closing date of 6.1.2020 — see previous notice concerning this procedure 2019/S 212-521277. All participants who responded to the AQ event failed to meet the minimum criteria outlined in the PQQ document, therefore the process was discontinued as there were no remaining applicants in the process. A contract award notice (2020/S 018-040479) was published to OJEU on 23.1.2020 confirming that the contract was not awarded as no tenders or requests to participate were received or all were rejected. In line with paragraph 50 of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, a negotiated procedure without prior call for competition was used with all applicants who responded to the initial AQ event invited to negotiate directly. The basis of these negotiations were commercial factors, technical factors and test validation progress in line with the criteria outlined in the original documents published with no substantial alterations to the initial conditions of the contract.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2020/S 018-040479
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 1
Title: Sampling and Analysis (CIP3)
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
25/02/2020
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 1
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
RPS Environmental Management Ltd
20 Western Avenue
Abingdon
OX14 4SH
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
High Court of England and Wales
London
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
26/02/2020