Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-27
Buyer: Birmingham City Council, Corporate Procurement Services
Country: UK
Region: WEST MIDLANDS (ENGLAND)
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 75240000 | 75241000 | 79700000 | 79710000: Security services | 90714600
Submission deadline: 2017-07-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: P0304 — Framework Agreement for the provision of a Supplementary Fixed Penalty Notice Enforcement Service.
Birmingham City Council are inviting tenderers for the provision of a framework agreement for a supplementary fixed penalty notice enforcement service for a period of 4 years commencing 1.9.2017.
The successful contractor will be expected to provide a back office system that handles the recording of fixed penalty notices, receives payments and is accessible by Birmingham City Council to produce statistics and monitor performance. The back office system must include:
— be capable of receiving payments must include as a minimum Paypoint (or equivalent), telephone and internet payments;
— must produce prosecution reports from the data entered on the street (to minimise administration time).
The successful contractor will be expected to provide a back office system that handles the recording of fixed penalty notices, receives payments and is accessible by Birmingham City Council to produce statistics and monitor performance. The back office system must include:
— be capable of receiving payments must include as a minimum Paypoint (or equivalent), telephone and internet payments;
— must produce prosecution reports from the data entered on the street (to minimise administration time).
BCC will be using its e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process and providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest. The web address is: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc Registration and use of In-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the In-tend correspondence function. If you are unable to register with In-tend please either email cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call 0121 464 8000.
If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Councils tender Portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register as a bidder. We will send you a log on and password so you can download the tender documentation. Requests to participate must be by way of completion and return of the tender documentation no later than 12:00 (GMT) on 7.7.2017 using the Supplier Portal.
The contracting authority is seeking to establish the framework agreement as available also for use by or on behalf of UK public sector bodies (and their statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisation or organisational changes). These will include:
— Local Authorities i.e. a local authority as defined in Regulation 3(2) to (5) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006;
— NHS Bodies i.e. Acute Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, Primary Care trusts, Care trusts, NHS Hospital trusts, Strategic Health Authorities, Mental Health Trusts, Special Health authorities (a list of such authorities and trusts can be found at http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx);
— Police and Emergency Services authorities i.e. fire authorities, fire and rescue authorities (a list if fire authorities can be found at www.fireservice.co.uk/information/ukfrs), police authorities and the Metropolitan Police Authority as defined by Regulations 3 (1)(j) to (p) of the Regulations;
— Educational establishments i.e. schools maintained by local authorities, Academies, City Technology Colleges, further education establishments and Universities;

Eligibility requirements: Details will be provided in the tender documentation.