Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-07-10
Buyer: Plymouth City Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 33196000 | 33196100 | 33196200 | 34953000 | 35121000: Security equipment
Estimated value: 450000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-08-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the provision of Adaptations, Repair, Maintenance and Improvement (ARMI) for Contracting Authorities and grant applicants.
Plymouth City Council (PCC) as the lead Contracting Authority is putting in place a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) in association with Independence Brokerage Services CIC (trading as Independence CIC (INCIC) for use by public sector bodies identified at:http://www.incic.org.uk/eligibility-criteria-armi-dps/
A number of public sector bodies are also Housing Authorities; Housing Authorities have a statutory duty to provide Disabled Facility Grants (DFG) for qualifying grant applicants under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. The main purpose of this procurement is to facilitate Adaptations, Repair, Maintenance and Improvement (ARMI) to restore or enable independent living for individuals and their families.
This DPS is split into Lots and is designed to facilitate the Contracting Authority’s and other public sector bodies current and future needs to arrange ARMI for their self and grant applicants. The Lots for this procurement are set out in this Notice.
UK wide and divided up into regions and geographical areas. Please refer to website for further details.
This procurement is being undertaken by Plymouth City Council as the contracting authority. PCC will be using the DPS to meet its requirements with respect to Adaptations, Repairs, Maintenance and Improvements. This DPS is for use by UK public sector bodies, identified in detail in the urls below (and any future successors to these organisations) but not limited to. Check links to the identities of these organisations: www.incic.org.uk/eligibility-criteria-armi-dps/
PCC and other public sector bodies will be seeking to appoint suitably skilled Providers that consistently meet the high standards required by PCC and approved user Authorities in the ARMI sector and their Clients. Providers will need to provide the Goods, Service and/or Works (if applicable) to meet the varying requirements of the Lots and PCC as well as other organisations.
Economic operators (referred to as Providers) who apply and wish to be considered for admission on to the DPS must register, answer and pass the Standard Selection Questionnaire (SQ)as well as agree to and sign DPS terms and conditions. Providers should be able to demonstrate they have the appropriate level of knowledge and skill required and are able to evidence that they possess the appropriate level of experience.
Providers who pass the SQ and sign the DPS terms and conditions will be required to commit to on-going checking, monitoring, development and training of their direct employees and/or subcontractors that are employed to carry out work for vulnerable Clients.
Stage 1- All Providers who pass the selection criteria for the Lots applied for will be admitted to the DPS as a Provider for those Lots and the geographical areas that they identify they wish to perform work in.
There will be no limit on the number of Providers that may join this DPS for each work category (Lot) and geographical areas.
Stage 2-Individual work contracts will be awarded in this stage. Contracting Authorities using the DPS will issue Calls for Competition to all Providers on the DPS in their chosen Lot(s) and geographical area(s). Public Sector bodies using this DPS may vary the tender return period for each call for competition to less than 10 days.
To include work such as removal of bath/shower cubicle, creation of level access shower area using proprietary equipment, shower screens (carer screens), shower curtain rail and curtain, slip resistant safety flooring, tiling, shower unit, grab rails and proprietary shower seat. Works may also include remedial work to facilitate the installation of adaptations, such as carpentry, plumbing and electrical work. This lot may also allow for the inclusion of specialist equipment within a bathroom such as wash/dry WC and specialist baths (where the supplier may be nominated). Lot also includes for all statutory permissions and all making good. Lot may also include all equipment and installations to be explained and instruction provided on its operation to the end user and their carers.
Award criteria will be set by the Contracting Authority conducting the call for competition and may include: -
i) agreement to a Schedule of Rates (SOR) based on market engagement and historic cost data, local trade rates and market available product prices.

Eligibility requirements: List and brief description of selection criteria: Providers must be able to demonstrate competency and technical ability to perform the works detailed above. The following forms of evidence will be deemed to satisfy some requirements, but other forms of evidence will be required and considered: — Trust Mark accreditation for Home Adaptations — Elderly and Disabled through INCIC or equivalent, — managers and supervisors should ideally hold a relevant NVQ, professional qualification and any of the following, such as the managerial or supervisory CSCS cards, for domestic works, — building operatives should ideally hold the trade specific CSCS card, — electricians should ideally hold an ECS card, — gas fitters /heating engineers must hold a gas safe registration card with relevant ACOP/NACS, — operatives dealing with non- licensed asbestos removal must hold a UKATA Category B card or equivalent. The following forms of company accreditation may also help to demonstrate competency: — ISO 9001 (quality management), — ISO 14001 (environmental management), — OHSAS 18001 (occupational health and safety), — SSIP (Safety Schemes in Procurement). This list is not exhaustive and specific requirements may be set out more clearly for each Lot/Category in the Invitation To Tender (ITT) / Call for competition by the Contracting Authority.

Award value: 450000000