Public procurement notice: Qualification System With Call For Competition
Published: 2019-08-13
Buyer: Arriva PLC
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 34120000: Motor vehicles for transport of persons
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: The Arriva Group is establishing a qualification system for suppliers that manufacture or market buses for the transport of 10 or more persons.
The subscribing entities may on occasion use this qualification system to award contracts in relation to a project or programme financed by European Funds.
Suppliers and contractors may apply for qualification at any time. Arriva requests that suppliers and contractors complete an electronic selection questionnaire containing certain exclusion criterion when applying to join the qualification system. The selection questionnaire a can be obtained from https://www.arrivabuy.com/group/
Applicants must register their interest in the qualification system also via the ArrivaBuy Procurement Portal which can be found at the following address:https://www.arrivabuy.com/group/
Upon successful registration on the portal, applicants can access the relevant procurement documents. Applicants must upload their responses to those documents via the portal.
Arriva plc currently operates bus passenger services in the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Poland and Croatia. This qualification system is intended to cover the Arriva subsidiaries (subscribing entities) in all those countries (either existing or to be created), as well as further countries where Arriva plc is seeking, or may in the future seek, opportunities. The current Arriva subscribing entities are detailed in the Appendix 3 — List of Arriva Subscribing Entities which can be found in the Arrivabuy portal in: https://www.arrivabuy.com/group/
This qualification system is being run and managed on behalf of all the subscribing entities by Arriva plc. The subscribing entities include a mix of entities within the Arriva group which are currently covered by the Utilities Directive 2014/25/EU, Public Directive 2014/24/EU or Concession Contracts Directive 2014/23/EU (EU Procurement Rules), but also entities which are not so covered. Participation in and procurement under the qualification system to be set up does not change the status of those subscribing Arriva entities which are not entities or bodies caught by any or all of the Utilities Directive 2014/25/EU, Public Directive 2014/24/EU or Concession Contracts Directive 2014/23/EU. The subscribing entities who are subject to the EU Procurement Rules may use the qualification system to meet requirements that are subject to those rules and, when required at their absolute discretion, for requirements which are not subject to the rules. The subscribing entities reserve the right at all times to place individual contract notices for specific requirements where in their absolute discretion they deem it desirable and/or necessary (whether or not these are required under the EU procurement rules). The qualification system will be the first stage of qualification and will either be used as the basis for tender selection or may be supplemented by additional qualification criteria and/or stages established by the relevant Arriva subscribing entity if more information is considered necessary to establish bidder lists.
Registered and qualified suppliers and contractors may be considered by the relevant subscribing entities for contract opportunities without further notification of requirements in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union. Certain contract opportunities may be published separately, even though they relate to the supply of buses covered by this qualification system.