Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-10-05
Buyer: The Council of the Borough of Kirklees
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33100000 | 85000000
Estimated value: 19154808.6 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contracting authority have commissioned an Integrated Community Equipment Service (‘ICES’) that enables service users to live as independently as possible, in their chosen home, and enables health and social care services to function effectively and without delay, preventing service users from developing more complex needs and protecting them and their carers from harm or injury.
The purpose of the ICES is to supply, deliver and fit a range of equipment to people who need it, both adults and children.
Tenders were invited by the contracting authority from economic operators with relevant experience and ability to provide the supply of equipment and aids to daily living and to deliver it to people who use such equipment and live within Kirklees.
This service is not divided into lots as a consistent service is required across the whole of the borough of Kirklees.
One contract has been awarded to one (1) successful economic operator, to deliver the full requirements of the Service Specification.
The Commencement Date of the Contract is 1.4.2018, for a period of five (5) years, with the provision to extend the Contract by up to a maximum of two (2) further twelve (12) month periods.
In accordance with Regulation 86 (Notices of decisions to award a contract or conclude a framework agreement), Regulation 87 (Standstill periods) and Chapter 6 (Applications to Court) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102), the contracting authority incorporated a minimum ten (10) calendar day standstill period at the point that information on the conclusion of the contract was communicated to economic operators. This period allowed any unsuccessful economic operator(s) to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the award of the contract to the successful economic operators. If an appeal regarding the award of the contract has not been successfully resolved, then the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be started within thirty (30) days beginning with the date when the aggrieved party first knew or sought to have grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. The Court may extend the time limited for starting proceedings where the Court considers that there is a good reason for doing so, but not so as to permit proceedings to be started more than three (3) months after that date. Where the contract has not been awarded, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the contracting authority to amend any document and may award damages. If however the contract has been awarded,the Court may only award damages or, where the contract award procedures have not been followed correctly, declare the framework agreement to be ineffective.


Winner: Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd
Award value: 19154808.6
Number of bids: 5