Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-08
Buyer: University of Warwick
Country: UK
Region: Coventry
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79710000: Security services | 79990000 | 79992000 | 79993000 | 79995000
Submission deadline: 2016-08-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University of Warwick has a requirement to purchase Library services and the provision of security support to enable the operation of the Library to continue 24 x 7. Library services includes, but is not limited to, enquiry support, shelving and other collection activities, management of the main Library facility and environment management. The contract shall be for an initial period of 2 year(s) with an option to extend for up to a further 1 year.
Interested Suppliers are invited to submit their bids based upon the information contained within the complete Invitation to Tender document set.
All interested Suppliers must provide their submissions via the University of Warwick's In-Tend procurement site www.in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick.
The University of Warwick is not a contracting authority for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and its procurement activities are not subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the obligations under the European Public Procurement Directives, including the European Remedies Directive. Should the University advertise contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, this is at the sole discretion of the University and is undertaken on a voluntary basis with no implied obligation to comply with the procurement legislation.
The University's particular requirements will be set out in the Invitation to Tender documentation and may include, inter alia, performance bond(s) and/or parent company guarantee(s) and/or other forms of security.
The Universities particular requirements are to be determined but where a consortium or other grouping of suppliers submits a bid, such consortia or grouping must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Contracting Authority on all matters relating to the Contract. All consortium members or grouping will be required to be jointly and severally liable in respect of the obligations and liabilities relating to the Contract.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to tender documents.
Please refer to http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick for further information. You will be able to download the full tender documents from this site. Any queries in relation to this requirement should be directed to the University of Warwick via the correspondence functionality of our e-tendering system. Failure to do so may result in queries being excluded from the procedure.
i) Not to award any contract as a result of this procurement process commenced by publication of this notice.
ii) To make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition.
iii) To award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and
The University of Warwick is not a contracting authority for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and its procurement activities are not subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the obligations under the European Public Procurement Directives, including the European Remedies Directive. Should the University advertise contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, this is at the sole discretion of the University and is undertaken on a voluntary basis with no implied obligation to comply with the procurement legislation.

Eligibility requirements: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to tender documents.