Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-30
Buyer: Ipswich Borough Council
Country: UK
Region: Suffolk
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34114000: Special-purpose vehicles | 34144430
Estimated value: 200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Ipswich Borough Council, Gipping House, Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate, 7 Whittle Road, Ipswich, IP2 0UH.
For the outright purchase of a Small Road Sweeper(s) to Ipswich Borough Council, Gipping House, Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate, 7 Whittle Road, Ipswich, IP2 0UH.
Outright purchase of a Small Road Sweeper(s) to Ipswich Borough Council, Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate, 7 Whittle Road, Ipswich, IP2 0UH.
For the outright purchase of a Small Road Sweeper(s) to Ipswich Borough Council, Gipping House, Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate, 7 Whittle Road, Ipswich, IP2 0UH.
Outright purchase of a Small Road Sweeper(s) to Ipswich Borough Council, Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate, 7 Whittle Road, Ipswich, IP2 0UH.
For the outright purchase of Road Sweeper(s) to Ipswich Borough Council, Gipping House, Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate, 7 Whittle Road, Ipswich, IP2 0UH.
The authority may require a parent company guarantee if the contract is awarded to a subsidiary company. A performance bond may be required if the contract value exceeds 1 000 000 GBP.
Joint and several liability will be required if a group of economic operators is awarded the contract and a lead contractor must be appointed.
Economic operators who express an interest in the contract will be required to complete an Invitation to Tender.
All dates and time periods specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change them.
The authority reserves the right not to award the contract. It reserves the right not to proceed with all or any part of the project detailed at II.1) above and in no circumstances will it be responsible for any costs incurred by economic operators as a result of the publication of this notice or otherwise in connection with their tenders.
Full details of this tender can be found on the Suffolk Sourcing System — www.suffolksourcing.co.uk Before viewing this tender, please refer to the Suffolk Sourcing System ‘User Guides’ which can be accessed via the Suffolk Sourcing Homepage.
Suffolk Sourcing is an E-Tendering system jointly operated by Suffolk County, District and Borough Councils.
The authority will allow a standstill period of at least 10 days at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. The standstill period provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for an economic operator who has suffered or risks suffering loss or damage by a breach of the regulations to take proceedings in the High Court. Proceedings must normally be started within 30 days of the date when the economic operator first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting proceedings had arisen.

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators who express an interest in the contract will be required to complete an Invitation to Tender. Please see the Invitation to Tender. Please see the Invitation to Tender.
Please see the Invitation to Tender.