Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-08
Buyer: Ashford Borough Council
Country: UK
Region: Kent
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 16120000 | 16310000 | 16311000 | 16311100 | 16700000
Estimated value: 769235 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This is an invitation to tender for the provision of vehicles and machinery to support a grounds maintenance contract. For vehicle procurement various pricing options are requested and will be assessed (i.e. Lease v. Outright Purchase for vehicles). If the Lease Vehicle option is chosen this will run for a term of either 3 or 5 years. A supplier can bid for more than 1 Lot and we are looking to award 1 provider for each Lot.
Specific vehicles are required in order to carry out the grounds maintenance operations successfully. Evaluation of a leave v. purchase option will be considered as part of the tender evaluation process, and as such the period of contract will either be 3 or 5 years for the leasing option and no specific end date for purchase option.
A heavy duty tractor is required in order to carry out the grounds maintenance operations successfully.
Equipment in this Lot includes ride on mowers, mini diggers, water bowser and trailers. Evaluation of tenders will be based on purchasing the machinery.
Equipment in this Lot includes pedestrian rotary and cylinder mowers, strimmer, backpack and hand held blowers and hedge trimmers. Evaluation of tenders will be based on purchasing the machinery.
(1) Contracting authorities may exclude from participation in a procurement procedure any economic operator in any of the following situations:
(a) Where the contracting authority can demonstrate by any appropriate means a violation of applicable obligations referred to in Regulation (56(2));
(b) Where the economic operator is bankrupt or is the subject of insolvency or winding-up proceedings, where it's assets are being administered by a liquidator or by the Court, where it is in an arrangement with creditors, where it's business activities are suspended or it is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under the laws and regulations of any State;
(c) Where the contracting authority can demonstrate by appropriate means that the economic operator is guilty of grave professional misconduct, which renders it's integrity questionable;
(d) Where the contracting authority has sufficiently plausible indications to conclude that the economic operator has entered into agreements with other economic operators aimed at distorting competition;
(e) Where a conflict of interest within the meaning of regulation 24 cannot be effectively remedied by other, less intrusive measures;
(f) Where a distortion of competition from the prior involvement of the economic operator in the preparation of the procurement procedure, as referred to in regulation 41, cannot be remedied by other, less intrusive measures;
(g) Where the economic operator has shown significant or persistent deficiencies in the performance of a substantive requirement under a prior public contract, a prior contract with a contracting entity or a prior concession contract, which led to early termination of that prior contract, damages or other comparable sanctions;
(i) Has been guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required for the verification of the absence of grounds for exclusion or the fulfilment of the selection criteria; or
(ii) Has withheld such information or is not able to submit supporting documents required under regulation 59; or

Eligibility requirements: The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Discretionary Exclusions: (1) Contracting authorities may exclude from participation in a procurement procedure any economic operator in any of the following situations: (a) Where the contracting authority can demonstrate by any appropriate means a violation of applicable obligations referred to in Regulation (56(2)); (b) Where the economic operator is bankrupt or is the subject of insolvency or winding-up proceedings, where it's assets are being administered by a liquidator or by the Court, where it is in an arrangement with creditors, where it's business activities are suspended or it is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under the laws and regulations of any State; (c) Where the contracting authority can demonstrate by appropriate means that the economic operator is guilty of grave professional misconduct, which renders it's integrity questionable; (d) Where the contracting authority has sufficiently plausible indications to conclude that the economic operator has entered into agreements with other economic operators aimed at distorting competition; (e) Where a conflict of interest within the meaning of regulation 24 cannot be effectively remedied by other, less intrusive measures; (f) Where a distortion of competition from the prior involvement of the economic operator in the preparation of the procurement procedure, as referred to in regulation 41, cannot be remedied by other, less intrusive measures; (g) Where the economic operator has shown significant or persistent deficiencies in the performance of a substantive requirement under a prior public contract, a prior contract with a contracting entity or a prior concession contract, which led to early termination of that prior contract, damages or other comparable sanctions; (h) Where the economic operator: (i) Has been guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required for the verification of the absence of grounds for exclusion or the fulfilment of the selection criteria; or (ii) Has withheld such information or is not able to submit supporting documents required under regulation 59; or (i) Where the economic operator has: (i) Undertaken to: (aa) Unduly influence the decision-making process of the contracting authority; or (bb) Obtain confidential information that may confer upon it undue advantages in the procurement procedure; or (ii) Negligently provided misleading information that may have a material influence on decisions concerning exclusion, selection or award.

Award value: 769235