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UK-Plymouth: software package and information systems

2009/S 174-251472

CONTRACT NOTICE - Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

 

I.1)

NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

South West Public Transport Information, 1 Milehouse, Attn: Julie Williams, UK-Plymouth PL3 4AA. Tel.  +44 1752225464. E-mail: julie.williams@travelinesw.com. Fax  +44 1752567209.

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:

Other: Public/Private Partnership.

Other: Transport Information.

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:

Data Creation and Journey Planning System for traveline South West.

II.1.2)

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

Services.

Service category: No 07.

Main place of performance: Plymouth, Devon, UK.

NUTS code: UKK41 .

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):

To provide a system and services that will deliver data and journey planning functionality for the traveline South West service. The system will include as a minimum the ability to import and make use of all existing data, data creation and maintenance, integration with national datasets, journey plan and timetable output in call centre and public facing environments, and interfaces with third party organisations. The system must be capable of supporting a dataset of at least 3 000 public transport services and providing a multi-modal door-to-door journey planner on at least a UK regional scale. The system does not include the operation of the traveline call centre. SWPTI is looking for innovative and efficient solutions for the provision of the system that might, for example, include web-based or SQL type technologies where appropriate.

II.1.6)

Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

48000000, 48813000, 72322000.

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:

No.

II.2)

QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope:

To provide a system and services that will deliver data and journey planning functionality for the traveline South West service. The system will include as a minimum data creation and maintenance, integration with national datasets, journey plan and timetable output in call centre and public facing environments, and interfaces with third party organisations. The system does not include the operation of the traveline call centre. See further description in II.1.5.

Estimated value excluding VAT:

Range: between 1 500 000,00 and 5 000 000,00 GBP.

II.2.2)

Options:

Yes.

Description of these options: See VI.3.

II.3)

DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:

Duration in months: 60 (from the award of the contract).

SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

 

III.1)

CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required:

A parent company guarantee and performance bond may be required at award stage.

III.1.2)

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

Quarterly invoicing in arrears. Further details will appear in the contract that accompanies the ITPD.

III.1.3)

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

Where a consortium of service providers is applying, the contracting authority will require the consortium to form a legal entity before entering into or as a term of the contract with appropriate guarantees from the members of the consortium for performance or require that the members of the consortium under the terms of the contract become jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority for the performance of the services etc.

III.1.4)

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

Yes.

The applicable terms will be set out in the contract document that accompanies the ITPD.

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: Submission of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Included in Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Included in Pre-Qualification questionnaire.

III.2.3)

Technical capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

Included in pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:

Included in Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

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: 6

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: The mechanism for shortlisting is detailed in the PQQ.

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:

JP002.

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:

No.

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:

9.10.2009.

IV.3.5)

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

26.10.2009.

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:

Each applicant will be required to complete a PQQ to provide the information required for Sections III.2.1, III.2.2 and III.2.3. The PQQ also contains the minimum standards and the process that will be used for shortlisting. The PQQ is available free of charge from the contact point set out in I.1 and must be returned by 9.10.2009. The contracting authority's requirement is for a mix of services and supplies but the contracting authority's view at the date of publication of this notice is the predominant purpose is services. The contract will allow the contracting authority to extend the contract from the initial 5 year period for up to 2 further 2 year periods and will include the options to add new ways of presenting information to customers such as text and e-mail, the addition of data for other modes such as air, and the integration of demand responsive transport journeys. The anticipated contract values take account of these options. The contract length stated in II.3 excludes the options to extend. The anticipated start date of the contract is 1.4.10. The contracting authority does not bind itself to enter into any contract as a result of publication of this notice and will not, under any circumstances, have any liability for any costs any person responding to this advertisement incurs in any part of this tender process.

VI.4)

PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures:

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals:

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: SWPTI will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period from the date of information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Such tenderers have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from the contact point stated in this notice at Section I.1. If an appeal regarding the award has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) (as amended) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by any breach of the rules to take action in the High Court in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Any such action must be brought promptly and generally within 3 months. Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the court may only award damages.

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

8.9.2009.

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