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Category Services
Type
No. of Lots 1
Status Active
Published 30th Apr 2024
Reference | ocds-h6vhtk-045631 |
Common Procurement Vocabulary | Pest-control services |
Procurement Method | Open procedure |
Value | £875,000 |
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Category Services
Type
No. of Lots 1
Status Active
Published 30th Apr 2024
Reference | ocds-h6vhtk-045631 |
Common Procurement Vocabulary | Pest-control services |
Procurement Method | Open procedure |
Value | £875,000 |
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1) Name and addresses
PSNI - Police Service of Northern Ireland
Brooklyn, 65 Knock Rd
BELFAST
BT5 6LD
Justice.CPD [at] finance-ni.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
I.2) Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Public order and safety
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
ID 5241930 - PSNI - Pest Control Services
II.1.2) Main CPV code
- 90922000 - Pest-control services
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Police Service of Northern Ireland is seeking to establish a Contract for the provision of pest control services at locations throughout Northern Ireland. The contract will be awarded independently on the basis of the Most Economically Advantageous Tender. The Contractor will be responsible for managing and delivering the specified services at the different premises in a flexible and responsive way. Through Service delivery, the Contractor will be required to: • implement a sustainable structure that encourages continued value for money, efficiencies, continuous improvement and innovations; • engender and nurture a true spirit of partnership between the Contractor and the Client by providing a quality efficient Service, seeking to identify solutions to issues and making a commitment to effective dispute resolution; • help provide a safe environment in all contract areas to enable the Client’s staff to effectively deliver frontline support and services and for customers to avail of those services; • to maintain a robust programme of contract monitoring to ensure effective delivery of Services; and • integrate environmental considerations and delivery on social benefits through the performance of the Contract. The key operational objectives and tasks of the Contractor in relation to the provision of the specified services are: • Provide a clean and safe working environment for staff, contractors, and visitors to the Client’s premises; • Deliver a consistent quality service across the estate, meeting the standards as specified within the specification schedule and the contracts Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); • Maintain and safeguard the assets of the Client’s premises and their contents; • Enable the staff working within the premises to carry out their business functions effectively with minimum disruption; • Ensure that the services are operated in an efficient and cost effective manner with regard to their business activity; • Ensure that the Contractor staff are well presented, clean and tidy, polite, honest, respectful to others and willing to help; • Report to and liaise with the Client’s Representatives (and professional advisors) to compile and implement strategic policy for operating the Services in an efficient and cost effective manner; • Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations including Health and Safety, and to liaise with statutory authorities as appropriate; • Offer continual advice and proposals to the Client on methods of introducing additional value for money and innovation into the delivery of the Services; • Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £875,000
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 90922000 - Pest-control services
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKN - Northern Ireland
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Police Service of Northern Ireland is seeking to establish a Contract for the provision of pest control services at locations throughout Northern Ireland. The contract will be awarded independently on the basis of the Most Economically Advantageous Tender. The Contractor will be responsible for managing and delivering the specified services at the different premises in a flexible and responsive way. Through Service delivery, the Contractor will be required to: • implement a sustainable structure that encourages continued value for money, efficiencies, continuous improvement and innovations; • engender and nurture a true spirit of partnership between the Contractor and the Client by providing a quality efficient Service, seeking to identify solutions to issues and making a commitment to effective dispute resolution; • help provide a safe environment in all contract areas to enable the Client’s staff to effectively deliver frontline support and services and for customers to avail of those services; • to maintain a robust programme of contract monitoring to ensure effective delivery of Services; and • integrate environmental considerations and delivery on social benefits through the performance of the Contract. The key operational objectives and tasks of the Contractor in relation to the provision of the specified services are: • Provide a clean and safe working environment for staff, contractors, and visitors to the Client’s premises; • Deliver a consistent quality service across the estate, meeting the standards as specified within the specification schedule and the contracts Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); • Maintain and safeguard the assets of the Client’s premises and their contents; • Enable the staff working within the premises to carry out their business functions effectively with minimum disruption; • Ensure that the services are operated in an efficient and cost effective manner with regard to their business activity; • Ensure that the Contractor staff are well presented, clean and tidy, polite, honest, respectful to others and willing to help; • Report to and liaise with the Client’s Representatives (and professional advisors) to compile and implement strategic policy for operating the Services in an efficient and cost effective manner; • Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations including Health and Safety, and to liaise with statutory authorities as appropriate; • Offer continual advice and proposals to the Client on methods of introducing additional value for money and innovation into the delivery of the Services; • Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT: £875,000
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months
36
This contract is subject to renewal
No
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options: Yes
Description of options
Following the initial contract period, there are 2 options to extend for 2 years each.
II.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
II.2.14) Additional information
Contract Value. The figure indicated in Section II 1.5 represents an estimated contract value. This value reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account potential optional extension periods and the uptake of potential optional services as detailed in the tender documents. This figure does not however take into account the application of indexation or increases to charges due to increases in the Real Living Wage. Neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this contract. The Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. Economic Operators remain responsible for all costs and expenses incurred by them or by any third party acting under instructions from the Economic Operator in connection with taking part in this procurement process regardless of whether such costs arise as a consequence, directly or indirectly of any amendments made to the procurement documents by the Contracting Authority at any time. No legally binding contract shall arise (and an Economic Operator shall. have no legitimate expectation that a contract will be entered into) until such time as entry into the Contract has been confirmed by the. Contracting Authority. Economic Operators should note that all dates, time periods and figures in relation to values and volumes specified. in this notice and the procurement documents are approximate only and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change any or all of them.
Section III. Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Section IV. Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date
30 May 2024
Local time
3:00pm
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
English
IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Tender must be valid until: 28 August 2024
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date
30 May 2024
Local time
3:30pm
Information about authorised persons and opening procedure
Only CPD Procurement Staff with access to the project on eTendersNI.
Section VI. Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: No
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
VI.3) Additional information
Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with the tender documentation. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance can result in the Contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of three years from the date of issue. The Authority expressly reserves the rights: (I). not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;. (II). to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition;
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the PCR 2015 as amended.
N/A
Country
United Kingdom
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.