Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-10-12
Buyer: NEUPC Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79710000: Security services
Estimated value: 11923294 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-11-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium Ltd (NEUPC) is one of six UK Higher Education purchasing consortia established to deliver and manage a wide range of collaborative framework agreements designed to maximise third party expenditure within the higher education sector. (NEUPC) wishes to develop a national framework agreement to service the requirements of UK Higher Education Institutions and Associate members for the supply of Cash and Valuables in Transit Services.
Services will include, but not limited to, supply of cash and valuables in transit services, ATM replenishments, delivery of coin change, cash counting and processing, collection from pay amd display parking.
North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium Ltd (NEUPC) is one of six UK Higher Education purchasing consortia established to deliver and manage a wide range of collaborative framework agreements designed to maximise third party expenditure within the higher education sector. (NEUPC) wishes to develop a national framework agreement to service the requirements of UK Higher Education Institutions and Associate members for the supply of Cash and Valuables in Transit Services.
Services will include, but not limited to, supply of cash and valuables in transit services, ATM replenishments, delivery of coin change, cash counting and processing and collection from pay & display parking.
The framework will be available for use by any member institution of the UK Higher Education Purchasing Consortia:
— NEUPC Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (Scotland), and by Further Education institutions that are members of the Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC).
The estimated value of the agreement is 11,923,294 GBP over the duration of the agreement including the extension period. Tenderers are asked to note that there is no guarantee of demand or even any business for successful Contractors on the Framework Agreement. However, agreements are created on a collaborative basis with user input from institutions. This process is designed to capture user requirements and create agreements which meet users' needs. Additionally, NEUPC through its regional procurement account management structure and other regional UK HE consortia via their tailored client management approaches actively promote contracts and their usage to ensure maximum contract uptake amongst the participating institutions.
The framework agreement is available to all for use by any member institution of the UK Higher Education Purchasing Consortia. They will, in the same way that NEUPC will, promote the framework agreement to their own consortia members.
The Framework Agreement will be uploaded to https://www.hecontracts.co.uk. The HEC contracts database contains all HE and FE sector, consortia negotiated contracts. Institutions are able to access all national contracts and regional contracts from their regional purchasing consortium through HEC.
The framework agreement award will be based on the most economically advantageous tender, (MEAT). Award criteria will be a combination of both financial and non-financial factors and will consider:
The framework will have a twelve-month extension option taking the Agreement up to a maximum period of 4 years, subject to satisfactory performance. Satisfactory performance will be determined by participating consortia at their sole discretion, using feedback from a range of Member Institutions.
An SIA licence is required if you undertake the licensable activities of a cash and valuables in transit operative and your services are supplied for the purposes of or in connection with any contract to a consumer. Unless your employer or company has been given an exemption under Section 4(4) of the Private Security Industry Act 2001, it is a criminal offence to undertake the licensable activities of a cash and valuables in transit operative without an SIA licence. Further information can be found at http://www.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk/Pages/licensing-cvit.aspx.
Suppliers must meet minimum standards of economic and financial standing to take part in the competition.
In order to ensure that potential bidders can sustainably operate and not be exposed to undue risk at the end of any potential contract period, the suppliers turnover should have a minimum turnover of 1 000 000 GBP
Suppliers must be financially fluid and currently trading. They must not be recorded at Companies House as having any negative action / event (dissolved, removed, in liquidation etc) that calls into question their financial /corporate standing, such action / event will be deemed to be a failure to meet minimum standards of economic and financial standing.

Eligibility requirements: Security Industry Authority(SIA) An SIA licence is required if you undertake the licensable activities of a cash and valuables in transit operative and your services are supplied for the purposes of or in connection with any contract to a consumer. Unless your employer or company has been given an exemption under Section 4(4) of the Private Security Industry Act 2001, it is a criminal offence to undertake the licensable activities of a cash and valuables in transit operative without an SIA licence. Further information can be found at http://www.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk/Pages/licensing-cvit.aspx.

Award value: 11923294