Official UK procurement notice
DAERA - AFBI – Grass Plant Science Branch - Growth Chambers
Authority: Agri-Food and BioSciences Institute
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Agri-Food and Bioscience Institute (AFBI) require “reach-in” insectary chambers, plant growth chambers, and tissue culture chambers to fulfil their statutory and expertise advisory function to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and to conduct research that inform plant health policy. The chambers will require commissioning, a warranty package and optional extended warranty.
CPV: Checking and testing apparatus · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) · Machines and apparatus for testing and measuring · Miscellaneous evaluation or testing instruments · Research, testing and scientific technical simulator
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£489,448
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).
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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).
- Price
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
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 21 Oct 2021, 15:54 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2021, 15:54 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 24 Nov 2021 – …
- Authority reference
ID 3839626- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-026421- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02eea2Find a Tender
- Review procedure
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended). and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award. of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the. unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
Publisher note: Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with PGN 01/12.. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If. a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified. time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for. further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be. regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the. contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all. procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland. Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 24 Nov 2021, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 24 Nov 2021, 15:30 GMT
Timeline
21 Oct 2021 → 22 Feb 2022 · 4 dates- Notice published21 Oct 2021, 15:54 BST
- Submission deadline24 Nov 2021, 15:00 GMT
- Bids opened24 Nov 2021, 15:30 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until22 Feb 2022, 23:59 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the PCR 2015 as amended.Review body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.