Official UK procurement notice
701472375 - DEOP AA Ranges (Fingringhoe) Enhancement
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe aim of the Project is to provide two additional firing ranges and supporting facilities at the Fingringhoe Range Complex to allow for the closure, and subsequent disposal, of 85 hectares at Middlewick Range.
The objectives of the Project are to:
a. Provide adequate range facilities to support use of the ranges, scaled for the number of personnel. The facility must support 2 x 30 personnel troops, workshop and store, toilets and vehicle parking and be Technical Advisory Section (TAS) compliant. The existing track is to be widened and resurfaced. Utilities shall be required.
b. Ensure that, outside of agreed periods, disruption to the operation of Fingringhoe Ranges is kept to a minimum during the construction period.
c. Ensure that the works are designed, constructed, commissioned and maintained to the appropriate standards and regulations during the construction and subsequent defects phase.
d. Optimise Through-Life Costs.
e. Link the Project and its delivery to the End Users’ operational outputs.
f. The design of all engineering service systems shall be energy efficient and emphasise simplicity of layout and control. They shall include standard, tried and tested components to achieve a design life of 15 years’ subject to planned maintenance and replacement required.
g. Ensure that new facilities have a minimum structural design life of 60 years, and free from major maintenance for 25 years.
CPV: Architectural design services · Design and execution · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
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).
- Suitability
he Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 39(1) of Directive 2009/81/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Defence and Security Public Contract Regulations (DSPCR) 2011 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 39(2) of Directive 2009/81/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the DSPCR 2011) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at www.contracts.mod.uk/delta/project/reason… ↗
Candidates will be required to sign a declaration confirming whether they do or do not have any of the listed criteria as part of the pre-qualification process.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 39(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest (including defence and security factors) for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 39(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
A Statement of Good Standing will be required within the Invitation to Tender stage.
- Suitability
As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation.
- Economic & financial standing
(a) Appropriate statements from the economic operator's bankers or where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.
(b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established.
(c) Where appropriate, a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years of the economic operator, of: (i) the overall turnover of the business of the economic operator; and (ii) where appropriate, the turnover in respect of the work, works, goods or services which are of a similar type to the subject matter of the contract.
As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation.
- Economic & financial standing
As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation.
Minimum: As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation. - Technical & professional ability
(a) in the case of a supply contract requiring the siting or installation of goods, a services contract or a works contract, the economic operator's technical ability, taking into account in particular that economic operator's skills, efficiency, experience and reliability;
(b) a list of works carried out over the past 5 years together with (unless the contracting authority specifies that the following certificate should be submitted direct to the contracting authority by the person certifying) certificates of satisfactory completion for the most important of those works indicating in each case: (i) the value of the consideration received; (ii)when and where the work or works were carried out; and (iii) specifying whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade or profession and properly completed;
(e) a statement of the economic operator's: (i) technical facilities; (ii) measures for ensuring quality; (iii) study and research facilities; and (iv) internal rules regarding intellectual property;
(f) a check carried out by the contracting authority or on its behalf by a competent official body of the member State in which the economic operator is established: (i) on the technical capacity of the economic operator; and (ii) if relevant, on the economic operator's study and research facilities and quality control measures;
(g) in the case of works contracts, services contracts or supply contracts also covering siting and installation operations or services, the …
Minimum: As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation.
- Legal form for consortia
- As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation. If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Authority. The Authority shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.
- Second stage candidates
- 3–5 candidates invited to tender
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32009L0081 Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (Directive 2009/81/EC)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- 9 Mar 2021, 22:56 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Mar 2021, 22:56 GMT
- Authority reference
701472375 - DEOP AA Ranges (Fingringhoe) Enhancement- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-004776- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-029a19Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation.
- Other terms
As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation.
The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by a Security Aspects Letter, the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the Security Aspects Letter to reflect any changes in national law or government policy whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies or otherwise.
Publisher note: The Contracting Authority intends to use an e-Tendering system in this procurement exercise, please visit www.contracts.mod.uk for full details and to register your interest in this procurement.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 8 Apr 2021, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Deposits and guarantees
- As prescribed within the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation To Tender Documentation.
Timeline
9 Mar 2021 → 5 May 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published9 Mar 2021, 22:56 GMT
- Submission deadline8 Apr 2021, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected5 May 2021, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Ministry of Defence, DIOMediation bodyReview bodyReview contact point
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments