Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-22
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 14400000 | 14410000 | 14420000 | 14430000 | 14450000
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-01-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Highways England will be procuring a contract for new Salt Saturators for Areas 1, 2, 7 and 14. The contract will provide these areas of Highways England's network with new salt saturators for the use in the production of brine solution. This will be used in our winter service fleet as part of delivering our winter service on the Strategic Road Network.
The Supplier is to supply, deliver and install a minimum of fifteen (15) fully operational Salt Saturators to the individual sites detailed in the Bravo folder entitled ‘Depot Details’ as per the supply programme. These sites form Tranche 1 of the indicative delivery programme. There may be an additional requirement of fourteen (14) fully operational Salt Saturators as per the indicative delivery programme shown as Tranches 2, 3 which the Purchaser will confirm and instruct by the 1st of April of each year.
There may be a further requirement of up to 31 Saturators represented by Tranche 4 of the indicative delivery programme.
Areas 1 and 2 cover Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, West of England, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
Area 7 covers Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and parts of Warwickshire and Rutland.
The 6 years 3 months will commence from the date of order placement. The 2 year defect period will commence from date of initial commissioning of the equipment.
A conducted tour of the depots where required, will be held between the dates in the indicative timetable 2.9.1 of the Instructions for Tenderers. There will be a limit of 2 people per supplier and requests to attend the depot tours must be made within the 1st week of the tender period. Suppliers must register their interest via Bravo and an itinerary will be communicated to prior to the visit. Further details will follow.
There is the possibility of a contract extension of up to 2 years (subject to satisfactory performance).
As the contract currently stands, the latest order date would be 1.4.2020. In the event of an extension, the last order date would be extended by the same time period as the contract extension period.
Suppliers will be asked to provide a Constructionline account (if applicable) where Highways England will cross check economic and financial standing.
Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://highways.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register
— Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’ — Enter your correct business and user details — Note the username you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete — You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure) 2. Express an Interest in the tender — Login to the portal with the username/password - Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier) — Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content. — Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page. — This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs’ page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) — You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’ box 3. Responding to the tender — Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason if declining) — You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT — There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available). You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.
The parties acknowledge that, except for any information which is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the provisions of the FOIA, the content of this Contract is not Confidential Information. The Authority shall be responsible for determining in its absolute discretion whether any of the content of the Contract is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the provisions of the FOIA. Notwithstanding any other term of this Contract, the Contractor hereby gives his consent for the Authority to publish the Contract in its entirety, (but with any information which is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the provisions of the FOIA redacted) including from time to time agreed changes to the Agreement, to the general public.
The Authority may consult with the Contractor to inform its decision regarding any redactions but the Authority shall have the final decision in its absolute discretion. The Contractor shall assist and cooperate with the Authority to enable the Authority to publish this Contract.
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Award value: 3000000