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

FA584, FA895 — Construction operational and service registers.

II.2)

Type of contract

II.3)

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

This document is an annual qualification system notice in accordance with Article 25 of the Utilities Contract Regulations 2006 and contains information on the qualification systems FA584 & FA895 (now combined as described below).

Note that Suppliers already registered do not have to re-apply, unless they wish to apply for new Lots.

This notice covers Lots originally advertised under 3 independent Notices, the first in 2003, the second in 2008, and most recently under notice 2012/S 236-389067 on 07/12/2012.

The Lots are defined and the requirements for application are detailed separately below.

1. FA895 — Construction, Operational & Service Register, originally advertised 24.7.2008 (Notice 190811-2008-EN.)

Please note that Lots C1.1, C2 and G previously advertised under 2012/S 236-389067 07.12.2012 are discontinued. Lots A and B will continue.

Thames Water has established a Qualification System (the "Register") which forms the basis for the award of contracts and/or Framework Agreements covering a range of works and services. For the purpose of obtaining places on the Register the works and services have been split into indicative Lots listed below. Any contract and/or Framework Agreements ultimately awarded may be for individual Lots or a combination of one or more Lots.

This Notice is a request for expressions of interest for places on the Register. Applications may be made for one or all Lots.Thames Water reserves the right not to award Framework Agreements and/or contracts for one or more Lots.

Thames Water may award some Framework Agreements and contracts covering discrete parts of Thames Water's operational area.

Thames Water will decide by which of several possible delivery routes a particular project is delivered.

Organisations already working with Thames Water under any other arrangement must still apply for registration to this Qualification System in order to participate in competitions for Framework Agreements and contracts falling within the scope of this Notice.

LOT n° A.

Network programme contracts. Design and construction of works on water mains, sewers, pipelines, tunnels, reservoirs, small network pumping stations, and the like. Includes programme management. May include operational work. Contracts and Framework Agreements will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this Register. Contracts and Framework Agreements may be of any size.

LOT n° B.

Process programme contracts. Design and construction of works on sewage treatment works, water treatment works, pumping stations, reservoirs and the like. Includes programme management. May include operational work. Contracts and Framework Agreements will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this Register. Contracts and Framework Agreements may be of any size.

2. FA584 — Construction operational and service register originally advertised 17.10.2003.

Only Lots 2, 5, 19, 22, 27, 28, and 30 will continue. Lots 20, 21 and 29 are discontinued. Lots 19, 22, 27, 28 and 30 may be discontinued in the near future.

In the Lot descriptions, agreements mean commercial arrangements under which individual contracts may be placed. TWUL will decide by which of several possible delivery routes a particular project is delivered.

Lot no 2.

Process Contracts. Construction works on sewage treatment works, water treatment works, pumping stations,reservoirs and the like. Agreements and contracts will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this register. Individual contracts may be of any value.

Lot no 5.

Network contracts. Construction works on pumping stations, water mains, sewers, pipelines, tunnels, reservoirs and the like. Agreements and contracts will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this register. Individual contracts may be of any value.

Lot no 19.

Engineering consultancy to support one or more of other lots or the like. Agreements and contracts will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this register.

Lot no 22.

Quantity Surveying Services. Estimating, cost management, and cost and planning services to support other Lots and the like, Agreements and contracts will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this register.

Lot no 27.

Environmental consultancy. Environmental consultancy to support one or more lots and similar services. Agreements and contracts will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this register.

Lot no 28.

Town planning consultancy. Town planning consultancy to support one or more of the other Lots or similar services. Agreements and contracts will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this register.

Lot 30.

Programme Management Services. Programme management services to support any aspect of the programme or similar services. Agreements and contracts will be formed by competition/negotiation from within this register.

Applications are invited for any or all of the Lots on the Register.

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

For Lots A and B (FA895 Construction, Operational & Service Register, published 24.7.2008), applicants will be assessed for a place on the Register based on their answers to questions 1 to 9 below. Questions 1, 2, 3 and 9 are for information only and will not be evaluated.

Responses will be evaluated on the relevance to the Lots applied for and the capability and capacity demonstrated.

All applicants shall respond to 1-9 below where applicable.

1. Advise which Lot(s) your company/joint venture/consortium is applying for. Max 1 side of A4.

2. Your organisation: State whether an individual application, or joint venture application or consortium application. For a joint venture/consortium state the roles of each member of the joint venture/consortium. State the single named person responsible for this application. Max 1 side of A4.

If you are applying as a joint venture or consortium the information requested in questions 3 to 8 should be provided for each joint venture or consortium member.

3. Provide the legal name of your organisation, address of your registered office, and details of the locations you operate from. State whether your company is part of a group or is affiliated in any way with other companies; if so, provide details of the group company structure or other company relationships. Provide details of any High Court or County Court judgments, or similar European judgments decrees or awards, or other prosecutions within the previous 3 years. Provide audited accounts for the last 2 years.

4. Health safety and environment performance. Provide details of any prosecutions, enforcement notices or other statutory notices served on you at any time during the last 3 years by the Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency (or equivalent organisations if not a UK based bidder) or under any other relevant or equivalent legislation (e.g. planning, control of pollution, noise pollution, etc). Max 2 sides of A4.

5. Relevant experience. Describe your experience relevant to the Lots applied for. Provide reference details of contracts undertaken in the last 2 years for requirements similar to those in the Lots applied for. For each contract, describe the parties, scope, value and duration. Max 4 sides of A4 per Lot applied for.

6. Resource levels. Describe the resource levels available within your company, clearly distinguishing between directly employed/owned and subcontracted/hired resources. Details provided should include human resources as well as plant and machinery and other resources required to undertake the Lots you are applying for. For human resources include a description such as construction engineer, quantity surveyor, labourer. For directly employed human resources advise base location. Max 2 sides of A4.

7. Describe your experience and how you have approached carrying out design on previous similar contracts. Max 1 side of A4.

8. Describe the planning tools your company uses. Confirm you are prepared to use a different planning tool if so nominated by Thames Water. Max 1 side of A4.

9. Where applicants have applied for more than one Lot, provide details of combination(s) of Lots you recommend, including details of any relevant experiences, and the economic advantage of such combination(s).Details should include estimates of economic advantage in financial, operational, and any other terms. Max 4sides of A4.

For Lots 2 — 30 (FA584 Construction, Operational and Services register, originally published 17.10.2003), all applicants shall respond to 1-6 below in a maximum of 10 sides of A4.

Responses will be evaluated on the relevance to the Lots applied for and the capability and capacity demonstrated.

1. Advise which Lots your company is applying for.

2. Your organisation: Please provide the address of your registered office, and details of the UK locations you operate from, together with the named person responsible for this application. Please state whether your company is part of a group or is affiliated in any way with other companies. If so, please provide details of the group company structure or other company relationships. Applicants should provide details of any High Court or County Court judgments, or similar European judgments decrees or awards, or other prosecutions within the previous 3 years. Applicants must supply audited accounts for the last 2 years. Thames Water is seeking interest from contractors and consultants of all sizes, but for Lots 2 and 5 turnover in excess of 5 000 000 GBP is required.

3. Relevant experience. Briefly describe your company's experience relevant to the Lots applied for.

4. Commercial data as follows

— Annual turnover (£M) for last year..................,

— Profit before interest and tax (%)...........................,

— Turnover in the water sector (£M) .....................(average over last 3 years).

Largest water sector Client .......................Turnover with that Client (£M) ..............

2nd Largest water sector Client ..................turnover with that Client (£M) ..............

3rd Largest water sector Client .................. turnover with that Client (£M)..............

4th Largest water sector Client .................. turnover with that Client (£M)..............

— The ratio of subcontracted work to directly carried out work.

5. Resource levels. Describe the resource levels available within your company, clearly distinguishing between directly employed/owned and subcontracted/hired resources. Details provided should include human resources as well as plant and machinery and other resources required to undertake the Lots you are applying for. For human resources include a description such as construction engineer, quantity surveyor, labourer. For directly employed human resources advise base location if outside the Thames Water area. 6. If your company is a contractor who carries out design and construct contracts, then advise how you carry out design.

See Section III.I.I Conditions to be fulfilled by economic operators in view of their qualification.

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

FA584 and FA895

IV.2.2)

Duration of the qualification system

IV.2.3)

Renewal of the qualification system

Following qualification, applicants will be added to the Register. An annual call for competition for this Register will be published in the Official Journal of The European Union.

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

Applications are invited for one or more Lots. Thames Water will review the applications for the various Lots and may combine Lots with similar attributes and applicants together. When combining Lots, if an applicant has expressed interest in a Lot which is to be combined with Lots for which he has not expressed interest, Thames Water may ask the applicant if he wishes to express interest in the Lots being combined for which he had not previously expressed an interest.

Responses to this Notice will be evaluated. 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.

The successful contractor(s) will be required to actively participate in the achievement of social and/or environmental objectives. Accordingly contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social, environmental or other corporate social responsibility considerations. Further details of these conditions will be set out in the contract documents.

Any agreement resulting from this Notice may be modified to include further similar requirements at any site under the management of Thames Water Utilities Limited or its associated companies (subsidiaries, sister, parent company) within the EU.

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 the project by alternative means if it appears that the 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.

There is no application form available for completion — companies are required to respond directly to this Notice. Responses to the Notice should consist of a maximum of the number of pages stated above of A4 paper. Applicants should submit by e-mail to procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk. The e-mail title must include the Notice reference number (FA895 or FA584) and the Lot(s) applied for, and should not exceed 6MB in size.

Applicants should not include non-requested sales literature with their applications. Companies who qualify to tender stage may be required to demonstrate their services in practical trials or presentations at no cost to Thames Water Utilities Limited. Applicants who fail to supply all of the information requested in response to this Notice may risk elimination. Candidates who cannot fully meet all criteria may risk elimination. The contents of this Notice are sufficient for submissions of pre-qualification data; all other communications are discouraged. Applications must be clear and concise and contain all the information requested in this notice. The format of applicants' responses must be such that each point is restated and immediately followed by the applicant's answer. Contracts will be made under UK Law.

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