QUALIFICATION SYSTEM - UTILITIES

Section I: Contracting Entity

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Main activity or activities of the contracting entity

	Production, transport and distribution of gas and heat
	Electricity
	Exploration and extraction of gas and oil
	Exploration and extraction of coal and other solid fuels
	Water
	Postal services
	Railway services
	Urban railway, tramway, trolleybus or bus services
	Port-related activities
	Airport-related activities

Section II: Object of the qualification system

II.1)

Title attributed to the qualification system by the contracting entity

FA1227 IS Smaller Application Development Register.

II.2)

Type of contract

II.3)

Description of the works, services or goods to be procured through the qualification system

Thames Water Utilities Limited (TWUL) is planning to implement a new Register (FA1227) for application development and system integration project work, which is anticipated to start in November 2014.

This Register is intended to support a separate framework (FA1225), from which major IS application development and system integration project work will be sourced.

The total spend on IS Development work at Thames Water has been estimated at over £200m over five years, across both the Register (FA1227) and the framework (FA1225). The exact proportion of spend that will be sourced via this Register is currently unknown.

The work may include any facet of IS project delivery, system integration and associated services for current and legacy systems which may include but are not limited to:

— Service Strategy, IT Strategy, technical advice & planning,

— Enterprise Architecture Planning,

— Process improvement and design,

— Feasibility Analysis and blueprinting,

— Requirements Analysis,

— Solution design,

— Service design,

— Application development,

— Testing strategy and test planning,

— Data quality improvement and migration for service transition,

— Data management and information management,

— Information Security Management,

— IT Asset Management,

— Programme & project management,

— Quality control, quality assurance and quality management,

— Design assurance,

— System integration,

— Service validation and testing,

— Business Continuity Management & IT Disaster Recovery Management,

— Transition into ‘Business-as-usual' operations (and potentially application support & service hosting).

Successful bidders would become part of the Thames Water IS Development Pool Register. Being on this Register does not give the supplier any guarantee of work, but will enable the supplier to bid for individual projects of future work.

The Register has no set expiry date at present, but this may be subject to change if unforeseen changes to the business occur or the Thames Water projected spend profile significantly changes.

To be considered for the first phase of awards from this Register, PQQ's requires completion by 12:00 hrs, 4.8.2014.

II.4)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.5)

Contracts covered by this qualification system are covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)

Conditions for participation

III.1.1)

Qualification for the system

This Notice is a request for expressions of interest for places on the Register. All suppliers who wish to respond to this OJEU notice must request a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) by emailing procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk providing the following details:

Company Name

Contact Name

Contact Email

Contact Telephone

Project being applied for (please state the title used in section II.1 of this notice)

Thames Water's Procurement Support Centre will then send you an email (to the email address provided by you) setting out login details for Thames Water's eSourcing system (IASTA).

To view the PQQ you will need to login to Thames Water's eSourcing system (IASTA). Should you wish to submit a PQQ, you must complete and submit it on Thames Water's eSourcing system by the date and time stated in the PQQ. Further instructions for bidders are set out within the PQQ.

Applicants will be assessed for a place on the Register based on their responses to the PQQ. Evaluation criteria for the PQQ are detailed within the PQQ.

Failure of a bidder to provide the required information, make a satisfactory response to any question, or supply documentation referred to in its response to the PQQ or any clarification within the specified timescales may render the bidder ineligible to join the Register.

To be considered for the first phase of awards from this Register, PQQ's requires completion by 12:00hrs, 4th August 2014.

III.1.2)

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)

Award Criteria

IV.1.2)

An electronic auction will be used

Thames Water reserve the right to use an electronic auction

IV.2)

Administrative information

IV.2.1)

Reference number attributed by the contracting entity

FA1227

IV.2.2)

Duration of the qualification system

IV.2.3)

Renewal of the qualification system

If, at any point in the future, this qualification system is stopped, it is unknown whether or not the system would be renewed.

An annual call for expression of interest for this Register will be published in the Official Journal of The European Union. Applicants may only apply to join the Register at these times. Thames Water reserve the right to bring in other third parties due to expertise or urgency.

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

One of more contracts covered by the qualification systems are related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds

VI.2)

Additional Information

Successful applicants will be placed on the Register. Applicants should note that this process might require references to be provided and verified, attendances at meetings, talks and presentations at no cost to Thames Water Utilities Limited. This Notice does not preclude Thames Water Utilities Limited or its associated companies, subsidiaries, sister, parent companies etc) from issuing other contract notices for specific requirements from time to time.

Unless specifically stated otherwise, Thames Water Utilities Limited shall not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by applicants and does not accept liability for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by applicants, irrespective of the outcome of the competition, or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to terminate the competition (or part of it), to change the basis of and the procedures for the bidding process at any time, or to procure a project by alternative means if it appears that a project can be more advantageously procured by those alternative means. The most economically advantageous or any tender will not automatically be accepted. Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to procure any of the works, services or supplies referred to in this Notice separately.

Thames Water Utilities Limited reserves the right to procure repeat requirements of a similar nature without a further call for competition pursuant to Article 40(g) of the Utilities Directive 2004/17/EC.

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: Thames Water Utilities Limited will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.

The Utilities Contracts Regulations (SI 2006 No 6) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

VI.3.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice