Official UK procurement notice
3D Metal Printer Lease · UK public procurement notice
Authority: University of Southampton (Charity / VCSE)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe School of Engineering wants to lease a 3D Metal Printer for a fixed term of 3 years with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years.
The metal printer will support world-leading research utilising new materials and printing methods and extend the capability of the 2D and 3D printing currently undertaken within the School.
Applications for metal printing can be found in aerospace, defence, automotive, healthcare, and many other industries and will lead to revolutionary new medical, electronic, mechanical, optical, acoustic, heat transfer, and sensing devices being designed and manufactured.
This is due to the many advantages, including design flexibility, product customisation, and minimisation of material waste, that printing offers over subtractive manufacturing.
The use of Additive Manufacturing (AM) means that geometrics are no longer constrained to the limited base stock that components are traditionally machined from.
CPV: Electrical equipment and apparatus · Metal-working machine tools · Printers and plotters
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1CancelledPublished value£500,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (10)
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 2 - Material Requirements: 10%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 3 - Training Requirements: 5%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 4 - Software Requirements: 5%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 5 - Delivery and Installation Requirements: 10%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 6 - Warranty and Maintenance Requirements: 5%
- Desirable Technical - Section 1 - Material Requirements: 15%
- Desirable Technical - Section 3 - Training Requirements: 5%
- Desirable Technical - Section 6 - Warranty and Maintenance Requirements: 5%
- Desirable Technical - Section 7 - Aftersales Support Requirements: 5%
- price: 35%
Published award criteria (13)
- Mandatory Technical Requirements: Pass / Fail
- Highly Desirable Technical Requirements: Overall Weighting 35%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 2 - Material Requirements: 10%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 3 - Training Requirements: 5%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 4 - Software Requirements: 5%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 5 - Delivery and Installation Requirements: 10%
- Highly Desirable Technical - Section 6 - Warranty and Maintenance Requirements: 5%
- Desirable Technical Requirements: Overall Weighting 30%
- Desirable Technical - Section 1 - Material Requirements: 15%
- Desirable Technical - Section 3 - Training Requirements: 5%
- Desirable Technical - Section 6 - Warranty and Maintenance Requirements: 5%
- Desirable Technical - Section 7 - Aftersales Support Requirements: 5%
- Price: 35%
- Economic & financial standing
To support the financial assessment, the University will obtain a Business Risk Report for all Tenderers and every organisation that is being relied on to meet this procurement, using an independent company called Creditsafe.
The University reserves the right to exclude a Tenderer or request provision of further assurances such as parent company/bank guarantee or performance bonds where a Tenderer's Business Risk Score is: "Moderate Risk"; "High Risk"; "Very High Risk"; or "Not Rated", based on the rating provided by Creditsafe.
Where a Business Risk Score from our external system is not available, then an alternative method of assessing financial standing will be used.
This method is detailed within the Invitation to Tender document set.
Minimum: Tenderers are advised that a requirement of this procurement is to have in place, or commit to obtain prior to the commencement of the contract, the following minimum insurance levels: Employers (Compulsory) Liability: £5 million GBP per occurrence. Public Liability: £5 million G… - Technical & professional ability
Tenderers attention is drawn to the MANDATORY requirements of the award criteria:
Grounds for mandatory exclusion
- Mandatory technical requirements M1 to M8
- Failure to meet the minimum required score for Highly Desirable technical requirements H1 to H7
Grounds for discretionary exclusion
-Economic & Financial Standing
-Insurance
-Compliance with equality legislation
-Health & Safety
-Legal requirements
-Control of Contractors Health & Safety (CC3) Form
- Price carries 35 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 7 Mar 2024, 13:44 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 12 Apr 2024 – …
- Authority reference
2023UoS-0808- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-026708- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044663Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: E-Tendering Portal: The University is utilising an electronic tendering tool, In-Tend (https://intendhost.co.uk/ universityofsouthampton) to manage this procurement and to communicate with potential suppliers and/or tenderers (as appropriate). All documentation in relation to this tender can be downloaded from In-Tend. Tenderers are advised that there will be no hard copy documents issued and all communications with the University, including the submission of Selection Stage and/or Invitation to Tender responses will be conducted via In-Tend. Regular monitoring of the portal is the responsibility of the tenderer. If you are not already registered as a supplier with the University of Southampton, you will need to register in In-Tend in order to access the procurement documentation. Once you have logged in as a supplier: click on 'Tenders'; locate the relevant project; and click 'View Details'. Once you are in the project screen, you will be able to register your organisation against the project and access all documentation by clicking 'Express Interest'. Potential suppliers/tenderers are advised that formal expressions of interest in the project must be by way of completion and return of the relevant documents via In-Tend. Further instructions for the submission of responses are below: To submit your return: 1. Log in 2. Click 'Tenders' 3. Locate the relevant project 4. View details 5. Click on the tab relating to the relevant project stage (e.g. 'Invitation to Tender') 6. Click on the 'Attach Documents' button and upload your return. 7. Check ALL your response documents are uploaded and displayed in the 'My Tender Return' panel. The system will only permit your organisation to make one return. 8. Click the red 'Submit Return' button. Please note, to preserve the integrity of the procurement, all communications with the University must be made via the correspondence function within In-Tend. Publication of Award Details: In accordance with Regulation 50, paragraph (2) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the University intends to publish the value of any resulting contract at the award stage, and reserves the right to do so. By submitting a response, tenderers are consenting to publication of this information unless otherwise agreed in advance with the University. Costs and Expenses: Tenderers are solely responsible for their costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation and submission of responses and participation in this and all future stages of this procurement. Under no circumstances will the University be liable for any costs or expenses borne by tenderers or any of their supply chain, partners or advisers in this procurement process. The University is not liable for any costs in the event of the cancellation of this procurement process.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 12 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 12 Apr 2024, 12:01 BST
Timeline
12 Apr 2024 → 21 Aug 2024 · 3 dates- Submission deadline12 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened12 Apr 2024, 12:01 BST
- Notice published21 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Aug 2024- Status changed to unsuccessful21 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST
- Buyer details updated21 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOfficial documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.