Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-05
Buyer: Knightstone Housing Association
Country: UK
Region: SOUTH WEST (ENGLAND)
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71315000: Building services | 71315210 | 71317100
Estimated value: 578000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Knightstone Housing Association (‘Knightstone’) and Curo Places Limited (‘Curo’), who are collectively referred to as the Employer, are jointly procuring these contracts. The Employer wishes to select contractor(s) (‘the Contractor’), to carry out Fire Risk Assessments (‘the Services’) under the service streams as set out below and in the Contract Documents.
The successful Contractor will be required to enter into separate contracts with Knightstone and Curo.
The contracts are for 60 months, commencing 1.8.2016 and ending on 31.7.2021 with the potential extensions for up to a further 5 years.
This procurement is being conducted using the open procedure under Regulation 27 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘the Regulations’). This ITT is available to all economic operators who express an interest in this opportunity. Any interested economic operator may submit a tender in response to the contract notice.
Important information: This tender is being conducted through the Knightstone Supplier Portal and all documentation is only available via this portal for which the URL is:
Suppliers wishing to take part in this tender are invited to express an interest upon which you will be given access to the full tender
Tenders must be submitted via the Knightstone supplier portal as per the instructions in the Invitation to Tender. All documents should be uploaded to the website. then be sure to press the Red button Submit Return. You will then receive a receipt.
If you have any problems accessing the documents or any other questions, then please send a message using the correspondence function on the Supplier Portal.
Tenderers are encouraged to attend a briefing from 9 am on 16th March, when there will be presentations from Knightstone and Curo regarding our shared vision, objectives and expectations and an opportunity to ask questions regarding any aspect of the procurement. At this meeting we will present their requirements, a good understanding of which will benefit Tenderers.
The contract may be extended at the sole discretion of the Employer, but only with the agreement of both Parties, by extensions of multiples of 1 year up to a maximum further 5 years to 31.7.2026. The first extension should be agreed 6 months before the end of the initial service period. Subsequent extensions should be agreed 6 months before the end of the previously extended service period.
The specific requirements are set out in the tender documentation and may include a parent company guarantee if required by the Employer.
Payments will be made in arrears on a monthly basis for services completed in accordance with the contract documentation.
No specific legal form is required. However, if a consortium submits a tender, the Employer may require the consortium to form a legal entity before entering into a contractual requirement.
Joint and several liability of all consortium members may be required (and/or guarantees and/or undertakings by some or all of the consortium members).
For more information on the Employer's specific requirements, please refer to the contract documents.

Eligibility requirements: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Organisations will be required to complete the Evaluation Questionnaire, which includes prequalification questions. This can be completed via Knightstone's Supplier Portal. The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender(ITT). Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Organisations will be required to complete the Evaluation Questionnaire, which includes prequalification questions. This can be completed via Knightstone's Supplier Portal. The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender(ITT). The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT), which can be downloaded from Knightstone's Supplier Portal. Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Organisations will be required to complete the Evaluation Questionnaire, which includes prequalification questions. This can be completed via Knightstone's Supplier Portal. The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT). The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT), which can be downloaded from Knightstone's Supplier Portal.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Organisations will be required to complete the Evaluation Questionnaire, which includes prequalification questions. This can be completed via Knightstone's Supplier Portal. The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender(ITT). The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT), which can be downloaded from Knightstone's Supplier Portal.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Organisations will be required to complete the Evaluation Questionnaire, which includes prequalification questions. This can be completed via Knightstone's Supplier Portal. The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender(ITT).
The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT), which can be downloaded from Knightstone's Supplier Portal.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Organisations will be required to complete the Evaluation Questionnaire, which includes prequalification questions. This can be completed via Knightstone's Supplier Portal. The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT). The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT), which can be downloaded from Knightstone's Supplier Portal.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Organisations will be required to complete the Evaluation Questionnaire, which includes prequalification questions. This can be completed via Knightstone's Supplier Portal. The minimum prequalification standards are set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT).