CONTRACT 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

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

Department of Environment and Rural Affairs and its 36 Government bodies and Agencies

Environment Agency

Forestry Commission

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

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

Various sites across England.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

N/A.

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Natural England is intending on letting a Framework contract to provide clear, accurate and targeted advice and information to farmers, other land managers and their advisers on environmentally sustainable land management, This Framework will be used by the Defra Network Agencies and Bodies in order to provide an integrated streamlined advice across a range of themes responsible to those different bodies including schemes supported by the Rural Development Programme for England under the European Union Common Agriculture Policy.

The main objectives of the framework are to:

— Provide advice and raise awareness and understanding of, and engagement with, environmentally sustainable land management;

— Improve the level of skills to allow land managers and associated individuals to deploy measures to improve sustainability;

— Provide an integrated, consistent, targeted, high quality and cost-effective advisory, and information service to farmers/land managers, and their advisers;

— Provide adaptive capacity to meet differing farm and forestry advice and information needs and volumes of activity;

— To deliver a more integrated, streamlined and efficient approach to providing advice on the environment in England.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

one lot only

one or more lots

all lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender~:

1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://naturalengland.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register — Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’ — Enter your correct business and user details — Note the user-name you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete — You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure);

2. Express an Interest in the tender — Login to the portal with the user-name/password — Click the ‘PQQs/ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier) — Click on the relevant PQQ/ITT to access the content. — Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page. — This will move the PQQ/ITT into your ‘My PQQs/My ITTs’ page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) — You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ITT Details’ box;

3. Responding to the tender — Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason if declining) — You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the PQQ/ITT — There may be a mixture of on-line and off-line actions for you to perform (there is detailed on-line help available). You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the on-line help, or contact the eTendering help desk.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

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)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

ITT_891Contract Reference ECM_6695

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

RDPE funding.

VI.3)

Additional Information

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

To a range of advice themes including both mandatory and discretionary elements specified in the new Rural Development Programme for England 2014-2020. These will include (i) Water Quality and Protection, including Water Framework Directive; (ii) Support for the new environmental management scheme; (iii) Countryside Productivity Scheme (CP Scheme); (iv) Cross Compliance; (v) Greening; and (vi) Sustainable Use Directive, Pesticides (SUD). Where appropriate, advice will be offered that integrates across themes and supports climate change adaptation and resilience as a cross-cutting theme, be delivered both on-farm and through events, and be locally tailored. Access and signposting to advice will in most cases be through a single service portal, which may also form part of the framework.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

To deliver a range of advice themes including both mandatory and discretionary elements specified in the new Rural Development Programme for England 2014-2020. These will include (i) Water Quality and Protection, including Water Framework Directive; (ii) Support for the new environmental management scheme; (iii) Countryside Productivity Scheme (CP Scheme); (iv) Cross Compliance; (v) Greening; and (vi) Sustainable Use Directive, Pesticides (SUD). Where appropriate, advice will be offered that integrates across themes and supports climate change adaptation and resilience as a cross-cutting theme, be delivered both on-farm and through events, and be locally tailored. Access and signposting to advice will in most cases be through a single service portal, which may also form part of the framework.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

To deliver a range of advice themes including both mandatory and discretionary elements specified in the new Rural Development Programme for England 2014-2020. These will include (i) Water Quality and Protection, including Water Framework Directive; (ii) Support for the new environmental management scheme; (iii) Countryside Productivity Scheme (CP Scheme); (iv) Cross Compliance; (v) Greening; and (vi) Sustainable Use Directive, Pesticides (SUD). Where appropriate, advice will be offered that integrates across themes and supports climate change adaptation and resilience as a cross-cutting theme, be delivered both on-farm and through events, and be locally tailored. Access and signposting to advice will in most cases be through a single service portal, which may also form part of the framework.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

To deliver a range of advice themes including both mandatory and discretionary elements specified in the new Rural Development Programme for England 2014-2020. These will include (i) Water Quality and Protection, including Water Framework Directive; (ii) Support for the new environmental management scheme; (iii) Countryside Productivity Scheme (CP Scheme); (iv) Cross Compliance; (v) Greening; and (vi) Sustainable Use Directive, Pesticides (SUD). Where appropriate, advice will be offered that integrates across themes and supports climate change adaptation and resilience as a cross-cutting theme, be delivered both on-farm and through events, and be locally tailored. Access and signposting to advice will in most cases be through a single service portal, which may also form part of the framework.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

To deliver a range of advice themes including both mandatory and discretionary elements specified in the new Rural Development Programme for England 2014-2020. These will include (i) Water Quality and Protection, including Water Framework Directive; (ii) Support for the new environmental management scheme; (iii) Countryside Productivity Scheme (CP Scheme); (iv) Cross Compliance; (v) Greening; and (vi) Sustainable Use Directive, Pesticides (SUD). Where appropriate, advice will be offered that integrates across themes and supports climate change adaptation and resilience as a cross-cutting theme, be delivered both on-farm and through events, and be locally tailored. Access and signposting to advice will in most cases be through a single service portal, which may also form part of the framework.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

To deliver a range of advice themes including both mandatory and discretionary elements specified in the new Rural Development Programme for England 2014-2020. These will include (i) Water Quality and Protection, including Water Framework Directive; (ii) Support for the new environmental management scheme; (iii) Countryside Productivity Scheme (CP Scheme); (iv) Cross Compliance; (v) Greening; and (vi) Sustainable Use Directive, Pesticides (SUD). Where appropriate, advice will be offered that integrates across themes and supports climate change adaptation and resilience as a cross-cutting theme, be delivered both on-farm and through events, and be locally tailored. Access and signposting to advice will in most cases be through a single service portal, which may also form part of the framework.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

To deliver a range of advice themes including both mandatory and discretionary elements specified in the new Rural Development Programme for England 2014-2020. These will include (i) Water Quality and Protection, including Water Framework Directive; (ii) Support for the new environmental management scheme; (iii) Countryside Productivity Scheme (CP Scheme); (iv) Cross Compliance; (v) Greening; and (vi) Sustainable Use Directive, Pesticides (SUD). Where appropriate, advice will be offered that integrates across themes and supports climate change adaptation and resilience as a cross-cutting theme, be delivered both on-farm and through events, and be locally tailored. Access and signposting to advice will in most cases be through a single service portal, which may also form part of the framework.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

To deliver a range of advice themes including both mandatory and discretionary elements specified in the new Rural Development Programme for England 2014-2020. These will include (i) Water Quality and Protection, including Water Framework Directive; (ii) Support for the new environmental management scheme; (iii) Countryside Productivity Scheme (CP Scheme); (iv) Cross Compliance; (v) Greening; and (vi) Sustainable Use Directive, Pesticides (SUD). Where appropriate, advice will be offered that integrates across themes and supports climate change adaptation and resilience as a cross-cutting theme, be delivered both on-farm and through events, and be locally tailored. Access and signposting to advice will in most cases be through a single service portal, which may also form part of the framework.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.