Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-02
Buyer: Kent County Council
Country: UK
Region: Kent
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 72310000: Data processing services | 72320000
Estimated value: 280000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-08-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Kent County Council (the council) is the largest county council in England covering an area of 3 500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over 900 00 000 GBP on goods and services and a population of 1 300 000. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with 12 district councils and 289 parish/town councils.
To support the continued focus on improved school attendance for Kent's Looked After Children, the local authority must collect the data every school day either through an internal data collection system or through a commissioned provider. Further background and technical information can be found within the tender documentation.
The successful service provider will make daily contact with every school or specialist provider, including out of county provision, that has a Kent looked after child on roll from Reception to Year 11. Contact is required to confirm that the pupil is in attendance. If they are not, the provider will contact the Carer (where relevant) and, if necessary, Virtual School Kent or Social Worker. In addition, where a pupil has been excluded, the provider will send an immediate alert to Virtual School Kent or the Social Worker enabling them to follow up.
A number of reports, including a daily report, should be made available to the Council. This ‘real time’ data will assist Kent Local Authority in tracking patterns of attendance and exclusions and in turn enable us to tackle underachievement where it is linked to poor attendance.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds, warranties and other forms of appropriate security as defined in the tender documentation.
No Special Legal form will be required. In the case of organisations applying as a consortia or joint venture, full details of each member is required. It will be necessary for each member to sign an undertaking that they shall be jointly and severally liable, or to require a single provider to take primary liability, for the performance of the contract.
(a) Is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;
(b) Is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order compulsory winding up the administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations;
(c) Has been convicted by a judgement which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct;
(d) Has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contract authorities can demonstrate;
(e) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(f) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(g) Is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information;
(h) Has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA;
(i) Has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/42/JHA3 respectively;

Eligibility requirements: (a) Is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations; (b) Is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order compulsory winding up the administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations; (c) Has been convicted by a judgement which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct; (d) Has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contract authorities can demonstrate; (e) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (f) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (g) Is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information; (h) Has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA; (i) Has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/42/JHA3 respectively; (j) Has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities; (k) Has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering. As set out in the tender documentation. As set out in the tender documentation. As set out in the tender documentation. As set out in the tender documentation.
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