Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-22
Buyer: The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of The University of Cambridge
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79710000: Security services | 79993100 | 90919200
Submission deadline: 2017-07-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: For the provision of Facilities Management Services to a University Building (Two Lots - Cleaning and Security).
The University of Cambridge is seeking to employ contractor(s) for the provision of cleaning and security services to the University's Wellcome Trust/MRC Building.
The building is a modern (1998), seven storey research facility with a floor area totalling approx. 10 000 m2. It houses the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) and the Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MBU- formerly an MRC unit) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. In total, it has approx. 500 dedicated staff/students that use the building day and night. In addition, security patrols extend to the neighbouring Hutchison Research Centre.
Contractors are invited to bid for one or both Lots of the tender, i.e. Lot 1 Cleaning Services only, Lot 2 — Security Services only, or a combined contract.
The University of Cambridge is seeking to employ contractor(s) for the provision of cleaning and security services to the University's Wellcome Trust/MRC Building.
Contractors are invited to bid for one or both Lots of the tender, i.e. Lot 1 Cleaning Services only, Lot 2 — Security Services only, or a combined contract.
Lot 1- Cleaning Services: The scope of the cleaning contract is for the provision of all labour, to be undertaken by uniformed staff for the management and operation of the Wellcome Trust/MRC Building cleaning.
The University of Cambridge is seeking to employ contractor(s) for the provision of cleaning and security services to the University's Wellcome Trust/MRC Building.
Contractors are invited to bid for one or both Lots of the tender, i.e. Lot 1 Cleaning Services only, Lot 2 — Security Services only, or a combined contract.
Lot 2- Security Services: A trained and SIA licensed uniformed officer is required to carry out static security and entry control duties based at the Buildings' Reception for a minimum of 14.5 hours per night Monday to Friday with 24-hour cover at weekends and bank holidays.
The University of Cambridge is not a public body within the meaning of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU) and is not subject to the European procurement legislation. Where the University advertises contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, it does so on a voluntary basis and does not undertake any obligation to comply with the procurement legislation. The University reserves its rights in full to adapt or step outside the procedures in the procurement legislation as the University considers necessary.
The University reserves the right to accept any part of any tender. Information about the tender process to be followed does not amount to a legally binding offer by the University to follow the process so described. The University reserves the right not to follow or to modify the procedures as the University considers necessary.
Tenders shall be submitted in accordance with and subject to the terms of these Instructions. Tenders not complying with any mandatory requirement (indicated by the word ‘shall’ or ‘must’) may be rejected by the University acting in its sole discretion.