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UK-Peterborough: forestry services
Procurer reference: 21685
Official EU reference: 108818-2008
Please note: this notice has been published in English only
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SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): The Environment Agency, Kingfisher House, Goldhay Way, Contact: Anglian Procurement, Attn: Laura Collison, UK-Peterborough PE2 5ZR. Tel. 017 33 46 40 93. E-mail:
[email protected]. Fax 017 33 46 42 36.
Internet address(es): General address of the contracting authority: http://www.environment-agency.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: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES: National or federal agency/office.
Environment.
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: 21685 Anglian Region Tree Services.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Services.
Service category: No 12.
Main place of performance: The Environment Agency Anglian region, from the Thames Estuary in the south to the Humber Estuary in the North, and from the East Anglian Coast to Daventry in the West.
NUTS code: UK.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with several operators.
Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 3.
Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 4 Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement: Estimated value excluding VAT: 200 000 GBP.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The framework is to provide a range of tree services primarily to the Environment Agency Anglian Region. Services to include tree surgery, crown lifting, crown thinning, dead wooding, formative pruning and reshaping, tree felling, stump grinding and removal, repair of storm damaged trees, debris clearance, chipping, hedge trimming, creation of habitat creation schemes, and consultancy and survey services.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 77200000, 77340000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: Yes.
Tenders should be submitted for: one or more lots.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: Yes.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The framework agreements will be for a maximum of 4 years.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 200 000 GBP.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in months: 48 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded: Each Economic operator to be jointly and severally liable for the performance of the contracts.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject: Yes.
Contractors must comply with the Work at Height Regulations 2005, as amended by the Work at Height (Amendment) Regulations 2007.
Contractors must hold certificates of competence in the safe use of chainsaws.
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: Evidence of Economic and Financial standing and technical competence will be required.
Each applicant will be sent a questionairre.
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: Restricted.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate: Envisaged minimum number: 5. Maximum number: 7.
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:
21685.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive documentPayable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 22.5.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: English.
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.4) PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures: Body responsible for mediation procedures:
VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals: Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The Environment Agency will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have two working days from notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from the address in section 1.1.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into the court may order the settling 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: 21.4.2008.
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