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UK-Blackpool: business and management consultancy and related services

2009/S 165-239392

CONTRACT NOTICE - Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

I.1)

NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

Blackpool Council, 1 Clifton Street, Attn: Donna Parkinson, UK-Blackpool FY1 1JD. Tel. +44 1253478977/6792. E-mail: procurement@blackpool.gov.uk. Fax +44 1253478594.

Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).

I.2)

TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:

Regional or local authority.

General public services.

Health.

Housing and community amenities.

Education.

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes.

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

II.1)

DESCRIPTION

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

UK - Blackpool Building Schools for the Future Project.

II.1.2)

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

Services.

Service category: No 11.

Main place of performance: Blackpool and adjacent areas.

NUTS code: UKD42 .

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):

The contracting authorities are seeking an innovative private sector partner or partners to participate and invest in a new Public Private Partnership vehicle (a "Local Education Partnership" or "LEP") to be established jointly with some or all of the contracting authorities (as noted in Section V1.3). The LEP will provide (or arrange for the provision of) "Partnering Services", which may include (but not be limited to) the development of a strategic investment programme for some or all of the following:

(a) educational facilities (which will include secondary schools and may include primary schools), voluntary aided and foundation including trust schools and academies and other places of primary, secondary and tertiary education;

(b) other children’s services facilities (including but not limited to children's centres, family centres, children’s homes, sure start facilities, after school club facilities, youth clubs etc);

(c) community facilities that support educational outcomes (such as but not limited to co-location and integration of key services such as education, social services, children’s services, health care services etc);

(d) accommodation for adult education and SEN education;

(e) leisure facilities (including but not limited to swimming pools, sports facilities, leisure centres, theatres & studios etc);

(f) community facilities whether co-located with any of the above facilities or freestanding (including but not limited to halls, drop-in centres, crèches, sheltered workshops etc);

(g) social service facilities (including but not limited to day centres);

(h) office and other accommodation for any of the contracting authorities;

(i)facilities for health, library and other community services (together the "Relevant Facilities") in the contracting authority’s areas including travel to learn areas as defined in the descriptive document.

The Partnering Services will also comprise of the following services: (a) strategy advisory services; (b) programme management services; (c) project development services; (d) procurement consultancy services; and (e) procurement and delivery of management of all services required to deliver the strategic investment programme for the Relevant Facilities (including through the provision, integration and management of supply chain arrangements). It is anticipated that such services may include:

(i) architectural services;

(ii) engineering services;

(iii) construction services;

(iv) technical services;

(v) building services; (vi) hard facilities management services;

(vii) soft facilities management services;

(viii) information communication and technology ("ICT") services;

(ix) educational support services;

(x) educational strategy services; and (xii) supporting wider regeneration initiatives as part of the multi area agreement. The LEP will be required to provide Partnering Services for a period of up to 15 years. The Relevant Facilities, which may be a mixture of new build and refurbished facilities, will be delivered under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and/or design and build arrangements. This may include the delivery of the Relevant Facilities through separate special purpose vehicles ("SPV") established by the LEP or in the case of co-located capital works / new projects provided via an existing SPV on a PFI site. Where an SPV is established the shareholders in such SPV may include the LEP, third party equity providers and supply chain members. The contracting authority may contract directly with the LEP or, where an SPV is established, with the SPV. The LEP may also be required to provide for, or arrange for the provision (through supply chain arrangements), of the management and/or integration of the partnering services, design and build construction contracts, facilities management services, support services and ICT services (this list is not exhaustive) where the contracting authority’s existing arrangements are either transferred or expire. There will be a requirement for an ICT managed service being offered to Blackpool Councils' primary schools which those schools will then be able to choose whether to take. The two sample schools for the purpose of this scheme will be Highfield Humanities College and St Mary’s Catholic College.

Important.

Please note that full details regarding the level of exclusivity are provided in the PQQ documentation and Descriptive Document).

II.1.6)

Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

79400000, 45000000, 45111000, 45210000, 45211360, 45212322, 45214000, 45453100, 50700000, 51610000, 70000000, 71240000, 71315000, 71541000, 72222300, 72500000, 72514300, 75200000, 77314000, 77320000, 79411000, 79418000, 79420000, 79710000, 79993000, 80000000, 85323000, 90911200, 92610000, 98341140, 45214200, 85311300, 85320000, 45215000, 80100000, 80200000, 80340000, 80400000, 71250000, 45314000.

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:

Estimated value excluding VAT:

Range: between 500 000 000 and 1 000 000 000 GBP.

II.2.2)

Options:

Yes.

Description of these options: The partnering contract between the private sector partner and the contracting authorities will be for a period of 10 years with an option to extend (exerciseable during the initial 10 year term) for a further 5 years. The project may include additional services or works which are a repetition of the services or works provided under the original contract in accordance with Regulation 14 (1)(d)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.

II.3)

DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

III.1)

CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required:

The contracting authorities reserve the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds or other forms of appropriate security. It is envisaged that this may include a mix of parent company guarantee(s), performance bond(s) and or warranties depending on the composition of the bidder.

III.1.2)

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

See sections III.1.3 and VI.3 some projects may be delivered using the UK governments private finance initiative (PFI). Where the contracting authority is able to demonstrate eligibility for the provision of debt finance from the HM Treasury Infrastructure Finance Unit (TIFU), it may use this for funding its PFI project(s) in addition to or in the absence of acceptable private sector funding.

III.1.3)

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

The contracting authorities are seeking a private sector partner or partners to participate and invest in the LEP which will take responsibility for and manage a supply chain of providers. The contracting authorities reserve the right to require groupings of contractors to take a particular legal form or to require a single contractor to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability irrespective of the form of the LEP. This may include the LEP establishing a special purpose vehicle (SPV) which will contract directly with the contracting authorities for the delivery of specific projects. Where an SPV is established the shareholders in such SPV may include the contracting authorities, LEP, third party equity providers and supply chain members. Further information will be provided in the contract documents.

III.1.4)

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

Yes.

Under this project the LEP and its supply chain will be required to actively participate in the achievement of social and/ or environmental policy objectives relating to recruitment and training and supply chain initiatives. Accordingly contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations.

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: In accordance with Articles 45 to 50 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulations 23 to 25 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire available from the address in section I.1.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: In accordance with Articles 47 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulations 24 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire available from the address in section I.1.

III.2.3)

Technical capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

In accordance with Articles 48 to 50 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulations 25 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and as set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire available from the address in section I.1.

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:

Yes.

SECTION IV: PROCEDURE

IV.1)

TYPE OF PROCEDURE

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure:

Competitive dialogue.

IV.1.2)

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

Envisaged minimum number: 3. Maximum number: 3

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: Partnering Experience - overall weighting is 35 %.

Design, development, operations and ICT - overall weighting 25 %.

Financial and economic standing - overall weighting is 20 %.

Commercial matters - overall weighting is 10 %.

Quality, health and safety, environmental protection, employees and equality in the workplace - overall weighting is 10 %.

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 yes.

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:

MK/HOP/BSF/CD.

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:

Prior information notice

Notice number in OJ: 2008/S 173-231285 of 6.9.2008.

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:

Payable documents: no.

IV.3.4)

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

25.9.2009 - 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:

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders:

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:

Blackpool Council is acting as lead authority on behalf of the following contracting authorities (and their statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisation or organisational changes):

BSF Investments LLP, 7th Floor, 8-10 Great George Street, London SW1P 3AW; School Governing Bodies; Voluntary Aided Schools (and their governing bodies); Diocesan authorities and Trustees appointed by them; Trust Schools; Voluntary Controlled Schools (and their governing bodies); Academies established or to be established in the areas of Blackpool; City Technology Colleges; Foundation Schools; Foundation Partnerships; Learning & Skills Council; Local Health Organisations; further education and/or adult education providers; Primary Care Trust; Blackpool and the Fylde College; Wyre Borough Council; Fylde Borough Council. BSF Investments LLP has now been established by the Department of Education and Skills (now the Department for Children, Schools and Families) and Partnerships UK as the body which will invest equity in the LEP.

Blackpool Council will be using the new condensed procurement procedure for its BSF programme, which received ministerial approval in May 2008. It is hoped that by adopting the condensed procurement procedure, the contracting authorities can streamline the procurement process and reduce procurement times and costs for all parties. Details on the condensed procurement procedure can be located on the PfS website http://www.partnershipsforschools.org.uk and will be further articulated in the invitation to participate in dialogue.

Partnerships for Schools is the non-departmental public body established by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to implement the BSF initiative. More information on the BSF initiative is set out in the Descriptive Document.

Section I.2 Additional types of contracting authority; national agency/ office, body governed by public law.

Section II.2(c) Additional service categories: 7, 12, 14, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.

Sections II.1.9 The Authority may require mandatory variants but only in addition to a compliant bid (as set out in the bidding documentation) providing the authorities core requirements are met and provided that they are in accordance with bidding documents.

Section II.2.2 and II.3 The Partnering contract between the private sector and the contracting authorities will be for a period of 10 years anticipated to commence December 2010 with an option to extend for a further 5 years (such option being exercisable during the initial 10 year term). The term of any design and build, PFI, facilities management, management services or ICT agreements or other agreements flowing from the partnership may extend beyond this period.

Following introduction of the Minimum Design Standard (MDS) within the BSF Programme from 13th May 2009 the contracting authorities require that the final designs for sample school schemes (sample school schemes being the representative selection of the types of schools to be rebuilt or refurbished as part of the contracting authorities BSF Project) meet the MDS. The MDS has been jointly developed by the DCSF, PfS and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Bidders designs submitted during the procurement process will be assessed by the CABE Design Review Panel against the MDS grading criteria at the following intervals:(i) submission of initial bids; (ii) final bids; and (iii) at the planning application stage (when the selected bidder has been appointed but before the planning application has been determined). Designs which do not meet the MDS will need to be amended or developed further until they meet the the MDS "pass" or "very good" grading criteria. PfS will not approve the selected bidder's final business case until the MDS is achieved. Where appropriate, non-sample schemes will also be required to meet the MDS as part of the process for approving and developing new projects. Further information on the MDS grading criteria and MDS generally can be found at www.cabe.org.uk. Further information is also available within the Desriptive Document and the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue.

Section IV.3.3 The Council will be submitting BSF Bidding documentation (PQQ and information memorandum) using The Chest, the North West’s Local Authority Procurement Portal. You must register your interest by e-mail to procurement@blackpool.gov.uk. Once you have registered your interest you will be given instructions on how to register(free of charge) on The Chest to enable you to download the bidding documentation.

VI.4)

PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures:

Blackpool Council, Town Hall, UK-Blackpool FY1 1AD. E-mail: mike.kirkman@blackpool.gov.uk. Tel. +44 1253478509. Fax +44 1253478594.

Body responsible for mediation procedures:

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals:

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: In accordance with Regulation 32 (Information about contract award procedures and the application of standstill period prior to contract award) and Regulation 47 (Enforcement of Obligations) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

26.8.2009.

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