Public procurement notice: Periodic Indicative Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2016-03-10
Buyer: UK Power Networks (Operations) Limited
Country: UK
Region: EAST OF ENGLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 34000000 | 34100000 | 34110000: Passenger cars | 34130000: Motor vehicles for transport of goods | 34131000: Pick-up trucks
Submission deadline: 2016-03-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: UK Power Networks (Operations) Limited Framework Agreement Terms and Conditions including Service Levels and KPIs. These will be issued at the RfP stage, after pre-qualification of the initial set of economic operators that express interest for each of the required purchases.
1. All services are expected to be directly delivered and not outsourced or subcontracted to other third parties.
Economic operators will have to demonstrate during the pre-qualification exercise that they are positioned to provide the required services and have operational bases where required that mirror UK Power Networks geographic operational footprint to position them to fulfil our operational requirements; please see the following link for details: http://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/about-us/areas-we-cover/
UK Power Networks (Operations) Limited will conduct a pre-qualification exercise to pre-qualify and short-list appropriate economic operators.
For instance for Accident Damage Repairs; economic operators must demonstrate that they can respond and attend call-outs on a 24/7 basis within a defined time frame.
For Short and Long Term Vehicle Hire, economic operators will have to demonstrate that they have locations where vehicles can be hired from or delivered to UKPN which are within an hours drive to UKPN depots and operational sites.
Please express interest in the requirement(s) that your organisation can provide and we will in due course issue detailed pre-qualification criteria and other details.
Express interest for only the requirements that you can directly provide. We will not pre-qualify any operator that will be subcontracting or outsourcing the delivery of the required services to other operators or third parties.
1. Provision of Vehicle Electrical Services i.e. auto electrical services such as installing batteries, inverters, flashing or rotating amber warning beacons and LED lighting to Panel Vans used to attend and repair faults on the electricity network.
2. Provision of Short and Long Term Hire of Cars, Vans and Utility Spec. (Chapter 8) Vehicles and Other Type of Operational Vehicles used by an Electricity Distribution Network Operator.
3. Provision of Hire and or Supply of Plant Equipment such as Mini Diggers, Tracked Excavators and Similar and Associated Equipment.
6. Supply and or Long Term Lease of Cars and Operational Panel Vans and other Types of Operational Vehicles.
Pre-qualification exercises will be carried out in due course to pre-qualify companies that express interest for each of the listed requirements.
Some of the requirements will result in the award of a framework agreement with a single operator and others will result in a framework agreement with more than 1 operator.

Eligibility requirements: Main Pre-qualification Criteria are: 1. All services are expected to be directly delivered and not outsourced or subcontracted to other third parties. Economic operators will have to demonstrate during the pre-qualification exercise that they are positioned to provide the required services and have operational bases where required that mirror UK Power Networks geographic operational footprint to position them to fulfil our operational requirements; please see the following link for details: http://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/about-us/areas-we-cover/