Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-04-30
Buyer: North Hertfordshire Homes Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 35110000: Fire-fighting and safety equipment | 71355000 | 71410000 | 71510000 | 71520000: Construction supervision services
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: North Hertfordshire Homes Ltd ("the Authority") wishes to appoint suitably qualified and experienced service providers to enter into a series of 5-year contracts for the routine servicing and repair of various items installed in residential housing and flatted blocks owned by the Authority, and the provision of professional services to support the Authority in the delivery of these and other asset management programmes, comprising:
Lot 1: Servicing, Maintenance and Repair of Fire Fighting Equipment, Emergency Lighting, Lightning Conductors, Door Entry/Automatic Gates/Barriers and CCTV;
Lot 4: Professional Services including CDM Principal Designer, assistance in surveying, site investigation, site supervision, project management and quality assurance services.
North Hertfordshire Homes Ltd ("the Authority") is a housing association based in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire which owns and controls approximately 10 000 residential properties.
The Authority wishes to appoint suitable qualified and experienced service provider to deliver the following contract:
The Authority intends to enter into a form of TPC2005 Term Partnering Contract with bespoke amendments with the successful tenderer. The contract will be for an initial term of one (1) year with an option at the client's sole discretion for extend for a further period of four (4) years, giving a total term of five (5) years subject to satisfactory performance by the service provider.
The Authority now invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers. Each applicant will only be allowed to bid for one lot. The procurement will be run as an open procedure exercise. Applicants will be required to submit:
1) Suitability questions to assess their past experience, financial robustness and technical ability to determine whether they are suitable for this contract; and
2) Their responses to a tender document setting out their method statements and tendered prices for undertaking the relevant services for the particular lot.
Tenderers are required to submit responses for both parts together. The Authority and their advisers will review and assess the responses to the suitability questions. Applicants who pass the evaluation criteria and minimum standards in relation to the suitability questions (as set out in the procurement documents) will have their tender responses evaluated. The Authority intends to award contracts to the service providers who submit the most economically advantageous tender for each lot, in accordance with the award criteria set out in the procurement documents.
The Contracting Authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are Small or Medium Enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
The Authority reserves the right not to award any contract pursuant to this procurement exercise and/or to abandon this procurement exercise at any time and/or to award a contract for part of the programme at its sole discretion. The Authority shall have no liability whatsoever to any applicant or tenderer as a result of its exercise of that discretion. For the avoidance of doubt, all costs incurred by any applicant before signature of any contract with the Authority shall be incurred entirely at that applicant's risk GO Reference: GO-2019425-PRO-14834083.
The Authority will observe a standstill period following the award of the contract and conduct itself in respect of any appeals in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.