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PROJECT TITLE: UK-Nottingham: technical glass

Project number: 2008/S 23-030024

Type: CONTRACT NOTICE - Supplies

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

 

I.1)

NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

 

The University of Nottingham, King's Meadow Campus, Contact: www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofnottingham, Attn: Helen Forsythe, Deputy Director of Procurement (Ref ITT/279), UK-Nottingham NG7 2NR. E-mail: helen.forsythe@nottingham.ac.uk.

 

Internet address(es):

 

Address of the buyer profile: www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofnottingham.

 

Further information can be obtained at: URL: www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofnottingham.

 

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at: URL: www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofnottingham.

 

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: URL: www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofnottingham.

 

I.2)

TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:

 

Body governed by public law.

Education.

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no.

 

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

 

II.1)

DESCRIPTION

 

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

 

Soft Glass Fibre Tower (ITT/279).

 

II.1.2)

Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:

 

Supplies.

Purchase.

Main place of delivery: Nottingham.

 

NUTS code: UKF14 .

 

II.1.3)

The notice involves:

 

A public contract.

 

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement:

 

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

 

A soft glass fibre tower is required in order to obtain continuous production of fibres from speicalist phosphate glasses. These fibres are to be wound onto a fast spinning drum, in an ordered fashion suitable for rewinding and post-processing. A coating system for the fibres as they are drawn is also required.

Initially the fibre tower will be used to draw fibres from a single pre-form rod; however the style of tower structure and equipment fitted will need to be selected so that the equipment can be easily modified to facilitate multiple pre-form at a later date.

 

II.1.6)

Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

 

26152000.

 

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

 

Yes.

 

II.1.8)

Division into lots:

 

No.

 

II.1.9)

Variants will be accepted:

 

Yes.

 

II.2)

QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT

 

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope:

 

See Above.

 

II.2.2)

Options:

 

No.

 

II.3)

DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:

 

Starting: 18.4.2008. Completion: 3.10.2008.

 

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

 

III.1)

CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT

 

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required:

 

None.

 

III.1.2)

Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:

 

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

 

Joint and several liability.

 

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject:

 

No.

 

III.2)

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

 

III.2.1)

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

 

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Any supplier may be disqualified who: (a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, whose affairs are being administered by the court, who has entered into an arrangement with creditors or who is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations; (b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding-up or administration by the court for an arrangement with creditors or is the subject of any other similar proceedings under national laws or regulations; (c) has been convicted of an offence concerning his professional conduct by a judgement which has the force of res judicata; (d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can justify; (g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under the provisions of the Directive on the criteria for qualitative selection; (e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or those of the country of the contracting authority; (f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is etsablished or those of the country of the contracting authority.

 

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity:

 

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) The submission of the firm's balance sheets or extracts therefrom, where publication of a balance sheet is required under company law in the country in which the supplier is established; (b) a statement of the firm's overall turnover and its turnover in respect of the goods to which the contract relates for the previous three financial years.

 

III.2.3)

Technical capacity:

 

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: List of the principal deliveries effected in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, public or private, involved.

 

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts:

 

No.

 

III.3)

CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS

 

III.3.1)

Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:

 

No.

 

III.3.2)

Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:

 

No.

 

SECTION IV: PROCEDURE

 

IV.1)

TYPE OF PROCEDURE

 

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure:

 

Open.

 

IV.1.2)

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

 

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 no.

 

IV.2)

AWARD CRITERIA

 

IV.2.1)

Award criteria:

 

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.

 

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used:

 

No.

 

IV.3)

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

 

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

 

CSD HF ITT/279.

 

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:

 

No.

 

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

 

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 15.2.2008 - 12:00.

Payable documents: no.

 

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

 

11.3.2008 - 12:00.

 

IV.3.5)

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

 

IV.3.6)

Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:

 

English.

 

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:

 

Duration in days: 30 (from the date stated for receipt of tender).

 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders:

 

Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no.

 

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

 

VI.1)

THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT:

 

No.

 

VI.2)

CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:

 

No.

 

VI.3)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

 

Tenderers must express their interest through the University's e-tendering system, having once registered as a supplier on the system.

 

www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofnottingham

 

Non-compliant expressions of interest will not be considered or acknowledged. The university reserves the right to cancel the tender process at any stage. The University does not accept any liability for any costs incurred in tendering.

 

VI.4)

PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

 

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures:

 

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals:

 

VI.4.3)

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

 

VI.5)

DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 31.1.2008. 

 

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