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PROJECT TITLE: UK-Stoke-on-Trent: financial management consultancy services

Project number: 2009/S 190-273829

Type: CONTRACT NOTICE - Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

 

I.1)

NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):

Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Corporate Purchasing and Contracts Unit, Central Services Directorate, PO Box 1709, Swann House, Boothen Road, Attn: Matt Robinson, UK-Stoke-on-Trent ST4 4UJ. Tel.  +44 1782572880. E-mail: matthew.robinson@stoke.gov.uk. Fax  +44 1782235920.

Internet address(es):

Address of the buyer profile: www.stoke.gov.uk.

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: URL: www.wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk.

I.2)

TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:

Regional or local authority.

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:

UK-Stoke-on-Trent: financial advice from OBC to financial close for estate renewal and transformation PFI.

II.1.2)

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

Services.

Service category: No 9.

Main place of performance: Stoke-on-Trent.

NUTS code: UKG23 .

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):

Stoke on Trent City Council (the council) is seeking to appoint a financial advisor to support the development and procurement of a Public Provate Partnership (PPP) as part of 6th Round of the Housing Private Finance Initiative (PFI). This is targeted at estate renewal and transformation.

An invitation has been received from the Homes and Community Agency to proceed to the next stage and develop an Outline Business Case (OBC) based on our Expression of Interest. This identified development sites located across six of the City Council's priority estates.

The project is now to be progressed to Outline Business Case (submission currently no later than July 2010) and subsequently to the procurement period and mobilisation of the investment programme delivery up to the start of operational services, expected to be mid 2013.

We require a financial advisor to provide advice through the above stages and become a member of the operational team reporting to the Project Manager.

Further information and all documentation is available via the City Council e-tendering portal at www.wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk.

II.1.6)

Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

79412000.

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

No.

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:

The financial adviser will lead on the provision of financial and commercial advice and analysis to the Council in connection with the HRA housing PFI project. The financial adviser will be required to review and verify the financial work done in the formulation of the Revised Proposal which will have been substantially completed by others. The financial adviser will be required to review the Revised Proposal before submission to HCA.

The services will be delivered by the financial adviser in accordance with the specific requirements defined as part of the Invitation To Tender; the scope of each stage (from appointment to submission of OBC and subsequently procurement commencement to financial close) shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

a) Administration, management and supervision of all aspects of this advisory appointment

b) To act as a member of the Project Team.

c) Provision of advice to the Council on:

i) Commercial PPP/PFI contract advice

ii) Financial modelling,

iii) Value for money assessment

iv) Options appraisal

v) Risk assessment

vi) Taxation considerations

vii) Balance sheet treatment

The financial adviser will work collaboratively to co-ordinate with the Council's officers and other project external advisers to ensure that all financial information is timely, effective and complete. It is the role of the adviser to keep the Council fully briefed about all financial aspects of the project, including taxation. The financial adviser will be part of the Project team and will attend team meetings as required.

The contract is expected to run for a minimum of three years to financial close, with an option to extend into the initial operational phase.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 200 000 GBP.

II.2.2)

Options:

II.3)

DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:

Duration in months: 36 (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:

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: (a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or 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 or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations;

(c) has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct;

(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate;

(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 with 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 established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;

(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information;

(h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA;

(i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;

(j) has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities;

(k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;

(b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;

(c) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.

III.2.3)

Technical capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:

(b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: - where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, - where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;

(f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;

(i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;

(j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract;

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:

Restricted.

IV.1.2)

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

Envisaged number of operators 6.

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:

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:

CPU/427.

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:

5.11.2009 - 12:00.

IV.3.5)

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

19.11.2009.

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:

To access the PQQ and further information please go to " www.wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk" and click "View current opportunities and notices". It is here that you will be able to register, find further information related to this opportunity and be able to complete the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

GO Reference: GO 09092920/01.

VI.4)

PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures:

Stoke on Trent City Council, Glebe Street, UK-Stoke on Trent ST4 1RN.

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals:

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: In accordance with Regulation 32 and Regulation 47 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: 29.9.2009.

 

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