Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-11-20
Buyer: CPD — Supplies and Services Division
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 35110000: Fire-fighting and safety equipment | 44482000 | 51700000
Estimated value: 7000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: CPD intends to establish a framework for the provision of fire fighting equipment and associated services on behalf of the participating bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-can-participate-cpd-collaborative-frameworks. In order to comply with statutory duties, NICS need a suitably qualified contractor to provide a comprehensive service in respect of all aspects of provision, installation, maintenance, recharging, testing and environmental disposal of portable fire-fighting equipment and associated fire safety signs.
The client may, at its sole discretion, extend the duration of this framework agreement for a period of 1 year from the expiry of the initial 3 year term by giving the contractor no less than one month's written notice prior to the end of the initial term.
The figure at II.1.7) represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from 5 000 000 GBP to 7 000 000 GBP. This range reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the demand and scale which may result from future operational requirements.
CPD intends to establish a framework for the provision of fire fighting equipment and associated services on behalf of the participating bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-can-participate-cpd-collaborative-frameworks. In order to comply with statutory duties, NICS need a suitably qualified contractor to provide a comprehensive service in respect of all aspects of provision, installation, maintenance, recharging, testing and environmental disposal of portable fire-fighting equipment and associated fire safety signs.
The client may, at its sole discretion, extend the duration of this framework agreement for a period of 1 year from the expiry of the initial 3 year term by giving the contractor no less than one month's written notice prior to the end of the initial term.
The values of each Lot are estimated only. Lot 2 of this framework has been established for the provision of fire fighting equipment and associated services on behalf of the participating bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-can-participate-cpd-collaborative-frameworks
The contractor’s performance on this framework will be managed as per specification and regularly monitored see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 contract management principles and procedures. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in Construction Procurement Delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a notice of unsatisfactory performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a notice of unsatisfactory performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by centres of procurement expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of 12 months from the date of issue of the certificate. This Procurement established a framework agreement for 2 lots to provide fire equipment and associated services to public sector organisations in Northern Ireland. Lot 1 was established for PSNI only, Lot 2 of on behalf of the participating bodies listed in https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/list-public-bodies-which-can-participate-cpd-collaborative-frameworks.
CPD complied with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and applied a standstill period (minimum of 10 Calendar days) at the point information on the award of framework was communicated to tenderers. The notification provided full information on the award decision. This provided time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the Framework was entered into.


Winner: Construction and Procurement Delivery cannot publish the name of the tenderer ranked first in this lot for security reason. It will be released to the Commission on request.
Award value: 7000000
Number of bids: 2