Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-03-02
Buyer: Efficiency East Midlands Ltd
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 42416100 | 42416130 | 44115600 | 72224000: Project management consultancy services
Estimated value:  GBP
Award criteria: Price, Method statement assessment

Technical requirements: Price
Method statement assessment
Lifts. Mechanical lifts. Stairlifts. Project management consultancy services. EEM on behalf of its members are looking to appoint an independent specialist elevator, escalator and access equipment consultancy service provider, who will provide a consultancy service to include: Maintenance Management Services, Surveys and Condition Reports, Project Management, CDM and Expert Witness Duties, allowing EEM members to utilise their services as necessary via the framework. EEM members are predominantly within the East Midlands but not exclusively so and may have requirements in other parts of England and Wales. The consortia is owned by our members which include Housing Associations, ALMO's, Local Authorities and bodies from the wider public sector including hospitals, universities and the police. A full list of current EEM members is provided in Annex A.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
This Contract Notice has been published by Efficiency East Midlands Limited (‘EEM’) on behalf of their members and the other organisations described below as being Authorised Users. EEM is incorporated as companies limited by guarantee. The Framework Agreements being procured by the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice will be entered by EEM as the Contracting Authorities which will have undertaken and completed that procurement exercise. Any reference in this Contract Notice to Contracting Authority is deemed to be and include a reference to EEM.
The current members of EEM are detailed in Annexe A. All of the current members are to be regarded as Contracting Authorities under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for the purpose of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice and Authorised Users entitled to access and use the Framework Agreements to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice.
The Authorised Users of the Framework Agreements being advertised by this Contract Notice and entitled to access and use the Framework Agreements to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice are:
1. Any current EEM Member — being an organisation which is a member of EEM at the date of this Contract Notice and being 1 of the organisations identified in Annex A; and
2. Any Future Member of EEM — being an organisation which has applied to join and has joined EEM as a member in accordance with the constitutional documents of EEM and in respect of which such organisation notice has been given to the economic operators that are a party to the Framework Agreements awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice that such organisation is an Authorised User. Future EEM Members may include consortia made up of organisations which would themselves individually be a Future EEM Member and may include any special purpose vehicle (of whatever nature) owned and controlled by the consortia members and would include in those circumstances the individual consortia members of the special purpose vehicle that own and control that special purpose vehicle; and
3 An EEM Participant — being an organisation based within England or Wales which is neither a current EEM Member (as defined at 1 above) nor a Future Member of EEM (as defined at 2 above) but in all cases is a contracting authority under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and which owns and/or maintains/manages housing stock in 1 or more geographic area in which it operates and is a local authority i.e. a County, Metropolitan (City), District or Borough Council or a Unitary Authority in England or Wales or is an Arm's Length Management Organisation (‘ALMO’) or any statutory replacement or successor organisation managed by such local authority under a management agreement under section 27 of the Housing Act 1985 (or subsequent legislation) or is a provider of social housing registered as a registered provider with the Homes and Communities Agency or as a registered social landlord with the Welsh Ministers or (in the case of EEM) is an NHS Trust (which includes Acute Trusts, Mental Trusts, Care Services Trusts and Ambulance Trusts) or organisation, police authority, fire authority, ambulance trust, university, higher education or further education college or other public sector organisation and in all cases in respect of any such contracting authority organisation notice has been given by EEM to the economic operators that are a party to the Framework Agreements awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise being advertised by this Contract Notice that such organisation is an Authorised User of the Framework Agreements, EEM Participants may include consortia made up of organisations which would themselves individually be an EEM Participant and may include any special purpose vehicle (of whatever nature) owned and controlled by the consortia members and would include in those circumstances the individual consortia members of that special purpose vehicle that own and control that special purpose vehicle.
Details of the Members of EEM at the date of this Contract Notice and the current Authorised Users can be obtained from the following website address www.efficiency-em.co.uk For the purpose of this Notice, the geographical area of local authorities and the names of those authorities are identifiable by reference to the DirectGov website at www.gov.uk A full list of all current registered providers can be found at www.homesandcommunities.gov.uk A full list of all registered providers can be found at www.homesandcommunities.gov.uk and of all current registered social landlords can be found atwww.gov.wales/topics/housing-and-regeneration/publications/registered-social-landlords-in-wales
A full list of educational establishments including Universities, Higher Education colleges and Further Education colleges can be found at https://www.gov.uk/check-a-university-is-officially-recognised/recognised-bodies and http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml
Reference to legislation in this Contract Notice includes successor and/or replacement legislation. EEM reserves the right not to award any Framework Agreements at the end of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice or to award only part of parts of the proposed works and reserves the right not to award any 1 or more Lot.
The Authorised Users will have requirements predominantly within the East Midlands but not exclusively so and may in the future have requirements in other parts of England and Wales. Authorised Users in other parts of England and Wales may also access and use the Framework Agreements to be awarded at conclusion of the procurement exercise begun by publication of this Contract Notice. The successful economic operators may therefore expect the Framework Agreements to be awarded at conclusion of this procurement exercise to be operated and implemented throughout England and Wales.
EEM operates a range of existing supply chain arrangements with which successful economic operators will need to interface. Framework Agreements may be awarded on a multi client as well as a single client basis with the facility for Authorised Users to join both.


Winner: EEM Members
Number of bids: 5