Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-20
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 79713000: Guard services
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-12-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Guarding services. Unarmed, static manned guarding for Pathfinder Building at RAF Wyton, postcode area PE28. Pathfinder Building requires 24/7/365 days a year guarding. The future requirement is for approx 20 guards (4 shifts of 4) four extra working during the day. There is also a requirement for a pool of relief guards to cover leave and sickness. However, flexibility in manning numbers will be required. Guards are requested to have Developed Vetting (DV) clearance, however, at the start of the contract a minimum of 16 DV cleared guards will be acceptable, with the remaining having security clearance (SC). Typical duties are to include the following list which is not exclusive:
(b) managing visitors to the building (including reception duties, confirming identification, pass issue and person searches);
(g) visitor escorting duties; all guards must be willing to undertake and pass the UK Government Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance and maintain it throughout the duration of their performance in the contract.
The contract will be for 4 years with an option to extend for a further 9 months. This option will be exercised by the authority no later than 3 months before the contract end date.
If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the authority. The authority shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.
The majority of staff (16) must be cleared to Developed Vetting (DV) before contract award. The remainder must be security cleared (SC).
The authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by a Security Aspects Letter, the authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the Security Aspects Letter to reflect any changes in national law or government policy whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies or otherwise.
TUPE obligations are applicable. The service is currently being performed by Corps of Commissionaires Management Ltd T/A Corps Security.
The authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations (DSPCR) 2011 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 39(2) of Directive 2009/81/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the DSPCR 2011) to the decision of whether a candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#dspr
Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 39(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest (including defence and security factors) for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 39(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the authority.
Developed Vetting security clearance is required for all staff proposed to carry out any part of the contract.
(b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established

Eligibility requirements: (b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established Please provide 2 years worth of audited annual accounts or equivalent information as requested in the PQQ.