Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-09
Buyer: Environment Agency
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 50100000
Estimated value: 30000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: National Framework for the Service, Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (SIMAR) of Construction and Agricultural Plant and Commercial Vehicles.
The cost of tendering and set-up to provide this service are high. A longer framework period allows the supplier to spread the cost of this over longer periods.
Also, suppliers require an extensive period to become familiar with our fleet (circa 3 000 items) and requirements.
The Environment Agency requires the services of an organisation who is able to manage the service, inspection, maintenance and repair of its fleet of construction and agricultural equipment and ancillary plant equipment, e.g. 4 x 4 tractors ranging from 45bhp to 180bhp, excavators ranging from 1.5 tonnes to 24 tonnes and associated attachments, and commercial vehicles e.g. 4 x 4s, a range of vans and HGVs, throughout England and Wales. The supplier should be able to demonstrate good geographical coverage and competence levels.
The Environment Agency requires the services of an organisation who is able to manage the service, inspection, maintenance and repair (SIMAR) of its fleet of construction and agricultural equipment and ancillary plant equipment, e.g. 4x4 tractors ranging from 45bhp to 180bhp, excavators ranging from 1.5 tonnes to 24 tonnes and associated attachments, and commercial vehicles e.g. 4 x 4s, a range of vans and HGVs, throughout England and Wales.
The supplier should be able to demonstrate good geographical coverage and competence levels for each lot applied for.
Please note — This framework is being procedured under the Public Contracts Regulation 2015. This exercise shall be conducted using ProContract: the Environment Agency's eSourcing portal provided by Due North. Candidates shall only be considered by registering their expression of interest on our portal at www.sell2ea.com Guidance: Click on the ‘Suppliers click here’ link and the Register Free on the portal. Login to the portal with the user-name/password then find this opportunity in the Search Latest Opportunities area and click on the relevant hyper-link relating to this contract. Those published in this area are opportunities open to any registered supplier. Once in the opportunity click the Register Interest button at the bottom of the page. This will then inform the buyer that you have registered an interest and you will receive confirmation of this via a system generated e-mail. This is the only way you will be able to access the tender documents. You may contact the named person for information regarding the contract opportunity but for all portal issues click on the Support area on the supplier registration page. Right to cancel: The Environment Agency reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a framework or contract, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award the framework or contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The Environment Agency shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender. Other contracting authorities: this framework is primarily intended to meet the needs of the Environment Agency. The Agency may require the successful bidder(s) to provide the services on the same terms that are agreed as a result of this tender to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and to its associated bodies including any Agencies and non departmental public bodies and others (the Defra Group). The Agency may also require the provision of the services to members of the aforementioned Defra Group via the Environment Agency, rather than directly. A full list of the Defra Group can be found at:https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations#department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs The successful bidder(s) may also be required to provide the services to local authorities in England and Wales. A full list maybe found at: http://local.direct.gov.uk/Data/ Similarly, the successful bidder(s) may be required to supply the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Forestry Commission Scotland, or Forestry Service Northern Ireland. The successful bidder(s) may also be required to provide the services to Central Government departments, executive agencies and other NDPBs. Full lists can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations and https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-bodies-2014 The successful bidder(s) may also be required to provide the services to local authorities in England and Wales. A full list may be found at:https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-council

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