Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-31
Buyer: Northumbrian Water Limited
Country: UK
Region: NORTH EAST (ENGLAND)
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 30163100
Estimated value: 25000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Electricity North West — Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and parts of North Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Cheshire.
This tender is issued by 2 members of Selectusonline Ltd, a purchasing consortium consisting of 6 utility companies. The 2 Selectusonline members, Electricity North West Ltd and Northumbrian Water Ltd have a requirement is to secure the supply of fuel cards. As a consequence, each of the above members are participating in the Tender and intend to award Contract with the successful Tender(s).
Each Contracting Entity will contract directly with the successful Tender(s). Selectusonline Ltd will Not contract with the successful supplier.
The procurement process will be managed electronically, with all communication being managed through the Northumbrian Water e-Sourcing Spend Management web site.
The majority of vehicles run on standard diesel. Refuelling usually takes place across the Northumbrian Water operating areas of the North East of England, Essex and Suffolk and Electricity North West operating area of Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and parts of North Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Cheshire.
It is the intention for both NWL and ENWL to award a contract(s) to the same supplier(s) however we reserve the right to award to separate suppliers should they represent best value for the company with regards to the location of filling stations from depots.
Northumbrian Water Ltd requirements — NWL currently have 2 374 cards for the commercial fleet which allow for all fuel types, oil and adblue and 24 cards for managers company cars which allow of all fuel types, oil, adblue and recovery. Average annual volumes are 2 500 000 litres. The commercial fleet comprises of 22 cars, 79 commercial vehicles over 3 500kg, 877 commercial vehicles under 3 500kg and 365 items of plant that require fuel.
Electricity North West Ltd requirements — ENWL currently have 1 297 cards for the commercial fleet which allow for all fuel types, oil and adblue. Average annual volumes are 1 400 000 litres. The commercial fleet comprises of 40 commercial vehicles over 3 500kg, 584 commercial vehicles under 3 500kg and 187 items of plant that require fuel.
The scope of the fuel card services includes but not limited to: managing and issuing of new cards on the change of vehicles or expiry of cards, managing the information of active cards, customer service, monthly reporting of transactions as well as abnormal refuelling and MPG per vehicle.
The planned duration of the framework agreement will be 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2, 2 year period (3 + 2 + 2).
Applicants must have ability to provide fuel cards to at least 7 filling stations within a 10 miles radius from both NWL and ENWL base depots. Postcodes for these depots are as follows:
ENWL — LA14 5BL, BB1 3HT, BB1 3AB, CA2 5BJ, LA9 7DU, M1 4LF, LA3 3PB, OL9 9XB, CA11 0AB, PR1 8AF, M6 6QH, SK1 2JD, M28 3GU, WA3 6XG, CA14 4PW;
NWL — CM2 6UW, CM3 8HS, CM3 8BD, CM9 6QA, CO4 5TD, CO2 0EP, DH1 5TA, DH2 1BJ, DH1 5FA, DH3 3EE, DH8 0PQ, DH8 9TU, DL2 0PW, DH3 4HG, DH8 9DS, DH9 6BB, DH8 9BD, DL16 6LQ, DL13 3LX, DL13 1DL, DL15 0DJ, DL13 3LX, DH4 5PL, DL5 6HP, DL3 8TF, DL12 9AZ, DL2 2SD, IG7 6JG;
IP19 0PL, NE24 4RS, NE15 0PE, NE15 0QA, NE28 0QD, NE66 2PR, NE19 1TX, NE23 3AS, NE61 4PL, NE48 4AY, NE46 4JR, NE48 1BX, NE48 1BT, NE61 1XA, NE63 6SW, NE46 4DL, NE42 6HL, NE43 7JR, NE48 1BT, NE65 0UB, NE66 2HA NE38 8LB, NR29 3LR, NR34 8HQ, NR32 5LZ, RM13 7SR;
SR8 4BH, SR7 7PG, SR1 2ES, SR8 3EX, SS0 7AB, SS17 9HG, TD15 2NS, TD15 2BE,TS6 6UE, TS9 6PX, TS18 2QT, TS13 1TR, TS12 2LP, TS17 0WQ.