Qualification system – utilities
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
02366661
Reading
RG1 8DB
UK
Contact person: Thames Water
E-mail: procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk
NUTS: UKJ11
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.thameswater.co.uk/
Address of the buyer profile: www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement
I.3) Communication
Access to the procurement documents is restricted. Further information can be obtained at:
www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
I.6) Main activity
Water
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Small Project Work (Runway 0)
Reference number: QS1768
II.1.2) Main CPV code
45000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Works
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
45232421
45232422
45232423
45232430
45232431
45232440
45232450
45232451
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKI
UKJ
Main site or place of performance:
Whole of Thames Water Region
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
This qualification system has been established to provide the opportunity for contractors to express their interest in providing small project works for Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Water).
Small Project Work is defined as civils repairs and maintenance of Thames Water's water and wastewater sites. The intent is that the qualification system will be used primarily as a shortlist for below threshold contracting outside of the Utilities Contract Regulations regime and works contracts are expected to typically be below £250k in value. Thresholds remain subject to review.
Contractors are invited to apply for categories of works as identified against the category as "Works" as detailed within the system.
Thames Water will not be liable for the contractors' costs of responding to this Notice or to any subsequent qualification or tender document or other stages of any procurement process.
Thames Water does not permit duplicate organisation registrations within the portal used for the qualification system.
Although the register will be indefinitely open, to be included in the first phase of projects/works, you will need to have applied and submitted a completed survey response by noon on 2nd November 2022.
Thames Water gives no guarantee of tendering opportunities nor the volumes or value of works being awarded via the qualification system.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.8) Duration of the qualification system
Indefinite duration
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.9) Qualification for the system
Conditions to be fulfilled by economic operators in view of their qualification:
Please see the Supplier Registration Requirement document held on the IASTA Smartsource portal for detail of conditions to be fulfilled
Only those contractors who fulfil the selection criteria shall be eligible to be invited to participate in the procurement activities.
Methods according to which each of those conditions will be verified:
Please see the Supplier Registration Requirement document held on the IASTA Smartsource portal for the method of verification
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
VI.3) Additional information
All suppliers who wish to respond to this notice must request access to the Supplier Registration Requirement document by using the web link in Section I.3
(www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement).
From your response to the link in Section I.3 or above, Thames Water's Procurement Support Centre will send you an email providing login details for our eSourcing system (i.e. IASTA Smartsource). To complete the Supplier Registration Requirement document you will need to login to IASTA Smartsource.
Although the register will be indefinitely open, to be included in the first phase of projects/works, you will need to have applied and submitted a completed survey response by noon on 2nd November 2022.
If the project requires it, you will receive an additional and separate survey to complete for Data Protection.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Thames Water Utilities Limited
Reading
RG1 8DB
UK
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Thames Water Utilities Limited
Reading
RG1 8DB
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
Where required by Utilities Contract Regulations 2016, Thames Water will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of a 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. For the award of contracts below the threshold values for the Utilities Contract Regulations 2016, or for which the regulations do not otherwise apply, standstill notices may not be issued.
Thames Water will notify suppliers if their application is successful and, if not successful they will also be provided a summary of the reasons within 15 days of the decision. Unsuccessful bidders have 30 days from the receipt of that summary to challenge that decision.
The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 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.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Thames Water Utilities Limited
Reading
RG1 8DB
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
19/10/2022