Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-09-19
Buyer: The chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the university of Cambridge
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79710000: Security services | 79711000: Alarm monitoring services | 79713000: Guard services | 79715000: Patrol services
Estimated value: 450000 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The core requirement is for Building Attendant Services during the hours 17:00 to 23:30 Monday to Friday and 07:00 to 23:30 at weekends and bank holidays. These services include:
1.4.b The above assumes that the Department will make adjustments to existing shift patterns in order to open up the buildings, however an option would be for the successful company to provide additional services from 06:00 to 08:00 Monday to Friday. These optional additional services would include:
1.4) A trained and SIA licensed uniformed officer is required to carry out security, entry control and other duties outside the core working house i.e. when the Reception is closed. There are 3 separate requirements that Tenderers are asked to price:
1.4.a) The core requirement is for Building Attendant Services during the hours 17:00 to 23:30 Monday to Friday and 07:00 to 23:30 at weekends and bank holidays. These services include:
1.4.b) The above assumes that the Department will make adjustments to existing shift patterns in order to open up the buildings, however an option would be for the successful company to provide additional services from 06:00 to 08:00 Monday to Friday. These optional additional services would include:
1.4.c) Tenderers are also asked to price an optional Out of Hours Service from 23:30 to 07:00 Monday to Sunday, including bank holidays. These optional additional services include:
Please note that the timing of the Out of Hours services fits into existing shift patterns within the Department and includes a period of overlap / handover. Once the Building Attendant Services are implemented with the chosen supplier, these shift patterns can be reviewed.
The University of Cambridge is not a public body within the meaning of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU) and is not subject to the European procurement legislation. Where the University advertises contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, it does so on a voluntary basis and does not undertake any obligation to comply with the procurement legislation. The University reserves its rights in full to adapt or step outside the procedures in the procurement legislation as the University considers necessary.
1.2) The University reserves the right to accept any part of any tender. Information about the tender process to be followed does not amount to a legally binding offer by the University to follow the process so described. The University reserves the right not to follow or to modify the procedures as the University considers necessary;
1.3) Tenders shall be submitted in accordance with and subject to the terms of these Instructions. Tenders not complying with any mandatory requirement (indicated by the word “shall” or “must”) may be rejected by the University acting in its sole discretion.


Winner: GSL Dardan Ltd
Award value: 450000
Number of bids: 8