CONTRACT AWARD 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

Other (Please specify): A company that is supported by a grant from the Regional Growth Fund

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 Other (Please specify): Sharing in Growth UK Limited is a company that is financed mainly by a grant from the Regional Growth Fund and its sole purpose is to support the development of gas turbine supply chain manufacturers.

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Advanced Manufacturing Training Services Framework Agreement for the Sharing in Growth Programme.

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

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

A single-supplier framework agreement for the specialist advanced manufacturing training services required to help beneficiary companies improve their manufacturing processes (method of manufacture), the aim being to improve their cost competitiveness. The scope of this service is to include:

The provision of training and support services covering a range of manufacturing processes (primarily machining but including and not limited to welding/ joining, forging, casting, coating, heat treatment, non- destructive testing (NDE), fabrication, rolling, tube/ pipe manufacture, special processes) that will support transformational supplier development activities within the aerospace sharing in growth programmes. The scope of this service is to include:

- The development and application of a diagnostic tool to identify improvement opportunities in manufacturing processes, with the key deliverables being capability and cost reduction.

- With the supplier development team, development of an action plan with the supplier to close any gaps identified by the diagnostic activity.

- Provision of all training material for on-site coaching and support.

- Provision of any formal training courses identified through the diagnostic process.

- Coaching and informal training of approximately 2 days per month in year 1 and 1 day per month in year 2.

- Provision of all labour to carry out the diagnostic, formal training and coaching over a period of up to 2 years.

- The provider will be expected to work with the Sharing in Growth supplier development teams who will also be working with the supplier.

- Planning assumptions are to be based on an average supplier, but there must be flexibility to be able to adapt to specific local conditions.

- They will be an expectation for the provision of up to 5 free of charge days to be used to work with Sharing in Growth teams to agree and refine the material provided.

- There will be a need to consider a wide range of manufacturing processes depending on the specialism of the beneficiary supplier. The provider will act as the “Integrator” and will be responsible for sub-contracting any provision that they cannot supply directly and for managing those sub-contractors.

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

210/MVT

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

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

Some work may be sub-contracted to other members of the North West Aerospace Alliance or other suitably qualified individuals through their involvement in the ASCE 1 and 2 Programmes.

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

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

VI.2)

Additional Information

The contract notice was a Voluntary advertisement as the services to which the procurement relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) (the Regulations) and Annex IIB to Council Directive 2004/18/EC. As such, all stages of the tender process will not be subject to the requirements of the Regulations except those applicable to Part B services. Although the Authority intends that the tender process will follows a procedure similar to the open procedure in certain respects, for the avoidance of doubt the Authority is not running the process as though the open procedure applies, and so reserves the right to depart from that procedure at any point.

This is a Part B Service and the service required is Education. CPV Codes used in this notice in relation to Engineering services are only being used to ensure that all possible suppliers are notified.

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)

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

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice