Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-10-12
Buyer: Manchester Airport Plc
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 34960000 | 35121000: Security equipment | 42961100 | 50610000
Estimated value: 3300000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-11-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Manchester Airport Plc (referred to as MAG within the rest of this notice) wishes to commission a Framework Agreement to provide automated boarding card readers and gate solutions across its portfolio of airports at Manchester, East Midlands and Stansted. The successful supplier will work collaboratively with MAG to supply automated boarding card readers and gate solutions for its capital programme and also the transformation projects at Manchester Airport (MAN-TP) and Stansted Airport (STN-TP). If at any stage MAG considers that it would not be appropriate/necessary to award a Framework Agreement, MAG reserves absolute discretion to cancel, including, in particular, following evaluation of PQQ Responses. MAG will not be liable for any loss suffered by Bidders following a decision to cancel.
MAG wishes to procure a Framework Agreement to supply, install and maintain automated boarding card readers and gate solutions across MAG’s assets (Manchester Airport, Stansted Airport and East Midlands Airport) including the Manchester Airport Transformation and Stansted Transformation Programmes. MAG employ an existing system across Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands Airports to control access at outbound security. MAG do not intend to replace this existing access control system. To ensure security is not compromised, the Automated Boarding Card Readers and Gate solution must be able to interface/integrate with MAG's existing access control system (as set out in the PQQ/ITN documentation).
The framework term will be 5 years, including the right to extend by up to a maximum of 3 years, in any number of separate extensions.
MAG reserves the right to request deposits, guarantees (performance and/or financial), parent guarantees or other forms of security.
Where the Bidder is a consortium, each Member of the Bidder may be required to contract on any basis which MAG considers appropriate in its discretion having regard to the nature, size and complexity of the works which basis may be discussed during the Negotiated Procedure or will be set out in the ITN. MAG may, at its absolute discretion and in particular, require the Bidder to contract:
— with a particular single Member of the Bidder as the prime Contractor (with the other Members providing collateral warranties and/or guarantees),
— as an incorporated or unincorporated special purpose vehicle (with guarantees from the other Members of the Bidder), and in any event,
MAG employ an existing system across Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands Airports to control access at outbound security. MAG do not intend to replace this existing access control system. To ensure security is not compromised, the automated boarding card readers and gate solution must be able to interface/integrate with MAG's existing access control system (as set out in the PQQ/ITN documentation).
All dates and times specified in this notice are provisional and MAG reserves the right to change these at its discretion.
MAG shall not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers and accepts no liability for any costs, charges or expenses, irrespective of the outcome of the competition, or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
All Applicants can obtain the Pre-qualification documents by requesting to participate via the URL in Section I.3 and submitting the information required. The Applicant will then receive a MAG Source username and password to access the Pre-qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) event. Applicants are responsible for monitoring MAG Source. All communications relating to the PQQ event shall be via MAG Source.
After evaluating each PQQ response and consulting its appointed advisors, MAG intends to select and pre-qualify a maximum of five (5) Bidders with the highest scoring PQQ responses. These bidders will be invited to the tender event through MAG Source.
Once the tender evaluation has been completed the highest scoring supplier will be awarded the framework.

Eligibility requirements: MAG has set out such information within its Pre-qualification documents available on MAG Source.

Award value: 3300000