VOLUNTARY EX ANTE TRANSPARENCY NOTICE

Section I: Contracting Authority/Entity

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

Interim Vehicle Recovery, Storage and Release Contract to The Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex in the areas of Basildon, Castle Point, Rochford (including Southend Airport) and Southend.

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

The County of Essex; specifically Basildon, Castle Point, Rochford (including Southend Airport) and Southend.

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The service provision to recover vehicles and other property, including storage, secondary movements and release. Other property will include but is not limited to large and heavy items of plant, equipment, and machinery. The contractor must be able to provide recoveries by light recovery vehicles (under 3.5 tonnes MAM) and heavy recovery vehicles (over 3.5 tonnes MAM). In addition the contractor must have an ability to provide some lower level traffic management services and to handle minor vehicle fluid spills on the carriageway. The requirement is to provide the service provision is to meet the operational and strategic policing needs of the Police in the area of Basildon, Castle Point, Rochford and Southend-on-Sea. Disposal services may be requested from the appointed contractors of this procurement process to cover the transition period encountered while the organisation tenders for Disposal services separately.

II.1.5)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s)

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

2015/076

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

 Lot Number: 

 Title: 

V.1)

Date of contract award decision:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

Additional Information

The interim contract is for the services in the area described in Lot 4 as described in contract notice 2014/S 076-131985 published in TED on 17.4.2014. Only irregular or inacceptable tenders were received in the restricted procedure. The authority discontinued the restricted procedure and invited the economic operators, who had expressed an interest in a Lot to competitively negotiate for a contract of that Lot. In the case of Lot 4, when the authority came to award a contract for that Lot, there were no bids for it as the economic operators invited to negotiate for that Lot had withdrawn. As the authority for public safety considerations could not be without vehicle recovery and storage facilities in relation to the areas of Basildon, Castle Point, Rochford and Southend-on-Sea, the authority further negotiated with those 2 economic operators for the provision of these services on an interim basis pending procurement of a contract in accordance with Directive EU 2014/24 (Public Contracts Regulations 2015).

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

Appeals should be lodged in accordance with Chapter 6 of Part 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

VI.3.3)

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

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice

Annex D1 – General procurement

Justification for the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU)
Directive 2004/18/EC

a) No tenders or no appropriate tenders in response to:

	Open procedure
	Restricted procedure

b) The products involved are manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development under the conditions stated in the Directive (for supplies only).

c) The works/goods/services can be provided only by a particular tenderer for reasons that are:

	Technical
	Artistic
	Connected with the protection of exclusive rights

d) Extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority and in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the Directive.

e) Additional works/deliveries/services are ordered under the strict conditions stated in the Directive.

f) New works/services, constituting a repetition of existing works/services and ordered in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the Directive.

g)Service contract awarded to the successful candidate or one of them after a design contest.

h) For supplies quoted and purchased on a commodity market.

i) For the purchase of supplies on particularly advantageous terms:

	from a supplier which is definitely winding up its business activities
	from the receivers or liquidators of a bankruptcy, an arrangement with creditors or a similar procedure.

j) All tenders submitted in reply to an open procedure, a restricted procedure or competitive dialogue were irregular or unacceptable. Only those tenderers were included in the negotiations which have satisfied the qualitative selection criteria.

Other justification for the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU:

k) The contract has as its object services listed in Annex B of Directive 2004/18/EC or in Annex XVII B of Directive 2004/17/EC

l) The contract falls outside the scope of application of the relevant directive.

In addition to the box(es) ticked above please explain in a clear and comprehensive manner why the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU is lawful, stating in any case the relevant facts, and, as appropriate, the conclusions of law in accordance with the articles in the relevant Directive (500 words maximum):

The interim contract is for the services in the area described in Lot 4 as described in contract notice 2014/S 076-131985 published in TED on 17.4.2014. Only irregular or inacceptable tenders were received in the restricted procedure. The authority discontinued the restricted procedure and invited the economic operators, who had expressed an interest in a Lot to competitively negotiate for a contract of that Lot. In the case of Lot 4, when the authority came to award a contract for that Lot, there were no bids for it as the economic operators invited to negotiate for that Lot had withdrawn. As the authority for public safety considerations could not be without vehicle recovery and storage facilities in relation to the areas of Basildon, Castle Point, Rochford and Southend-on-Sea, the authority further negotiated with those 2 economic operators for the provision of these services on an interim basis pending procurement of a contract in accordance with Directive EU 2014/24 (Public Contracts Regulations 2015).