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UK-Liverpool: telecommunications equipment and supplies

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249048-2012 published in OJEU S 149, 04.08.2012

deadline for submission of tenders Monday, August 13, 2012

Contract notice (Original) of Supply contract in United Kingdom

The contractor belongs to Body governed by public law (European Communities)

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Steve Begley

Crown Street

Liverpool

L8 7SS

UNITED KINGDOM

+44 1512525685

fax+44 1512525610

Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)

I.2) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.3) Main activity

Health

I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

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:

Full Bleep System.

II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Supplies

Purchase

NUTS code NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Telecommunications equipment and supplies. Suppliers are invited to tender for the provision of a full short-range two-way mail bleep system and full short-range two-way stand-by bleep system for Disaster Recovery (DR) purposes, a number of short range bleeps, ultra high frequency (UHF) transmitteers (all inclusive), as well as maintenance/support; to include services, repairs and replacemnets of the bleeps for the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust (LWFT).

II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

Telecommunications equipment and supplies (CPV: 32500000)

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

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 the requirements are met: The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.

A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr.

Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists.

Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so.

Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.

III.2.2) Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the 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 the requirements are met:

(a) a list of the works carried out over the past five years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct.

(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.

(c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work.

(d) A description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities.

(e) Where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate.

(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.

(g) For public works contracts and public services contracts, and only in appropriate cases, an indication of the environmental management measures that the economic operator will be able to apply when performing the contract.

(h) A statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last 3 years.

(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.

(k) With regard to the products to be supplied:

(i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests;

(ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Type of procedure

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Accelerated restricted

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure: Urgency is due to the failure of current system.

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.3) Administrative information

IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

235/12

IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

13.8.2012 - 12:00

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information

GO Reference: GO-201281-PRO-4122975.

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

1.8.2012