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Published 28 Jul 2022, 16:06 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Tender for de-icing/gritting and outdoor maintenance services

Official notice

Authority: Belfast City Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£1,250,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 31 Aug 2022awarded 1 Nov 2022
Awarded to Patterson Outdoor Cleaning Solutions Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Belfast City Council ("the Council") has awarded a tender for de-icing/gritting and outdoor maintenance services

CPV: Gully cleaning and emptying services · Ice-clearing services · Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services · Snow-clearing services · Street-cleaning and sweeping services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1This Contract is for the provision of de-icing/ gritting services, snow clearance and…AwardedRenewalPublished value£1,250,000

This Contract is for the provision of de-icing/ gritting services, snow clearance and other outdoor maintenance services across a number of Council locations. Additional information: The total contract value indicated of £1.25m is the original estimate over a five year contract period and includes potential contract options. The successful tenderer price indicated later in this notice is a two year price used for evaluation purposes.

Delivery: Northern Ireland · Belfast
Extensions: The Contract shall be effective from the date of award of Contract for an Initial period of two years. The Council reserves the right to extend/renew the contract up to a further 3 years. The Council reserves the right to add the following additional requirements to the Service under this Contract during the Contract Period: - Other outdoor maintenance services to support the Council’s in house operations teams (e.g. grounds/ landscape maintenance, roof and guttering cleaning, moss/weed control, site surveys, specialist powerwashing/ cleaning, event related clean up etc) provided the Contractor has the capacity, capability and suitably experience to provide the additional services at the time of being required. Additional Premises not listed in Annexe 1/ Pricing Schedule. This may be in response to additional Premises being identified and/or changes in how the Council’s in house operations are resourced and delivered. Temporary support for the Council’s in house operations to cover any shortfall in available resources. Introduce required changes associated with the Service to the Specification to accommodate changes to the Council’s operational model and working practices e.g. functional re-structuring, new customer hub, etc; Major incident/ environmental incident that requires outdoor cleaning/ maintenance e.g. flooding incident. Large scale projects or changes may be subject to price negotiation based on economies of scale. The Council reserves the right to explore/ use other procurement options in all circumstances where VFM is not demonstrated. The Council reserves the right to add or remove Premises from the Contract in line with the Council’s requirements. Where the Council identifies an additional Premises to be added the Contractor will expected to price based similar Premises/ tasks priced in the Pricing Schedule. Any contract variation may be subject to further Council internal approvals and be in accordance with the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations. The value in this contract notice includes for the potential of additional services to be added over the 5 year contract period. · Initial contract period of 2 years/ 24 months. The Council reserves the right to extend/renew the contract up to a further 36 months/ 3 years.Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 45%Price: 40%Social value: 15%
Published sub-criteria (5)
  • Implementation and mobilisation plans: 15%
  • Service delivery and performance management: 20%
  • Achieving the contract objectives: 10%
  • Cost: 40%
  • Social Value: 15%
Published award criteria (5)
  • Implementation and mobilisation plans: 15%
  • Service delivery and performance management: 20%
  • Achieving the contract objectives: 10%
  • Social Value: 15%
  • Cost: 40%
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    As set out in the ITT/ procurement documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 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
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
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
28 Jul 2022, 16:06 BST
Last source update
17 Nov 2022, 16:54 GMT
Award evaluation window
31 Aug 2022 – …
Authority reference
T2292
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-032690
Classification (CPV)
Gully cleaning and emptying servicesIce-clearing servicesSewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental servicesSnow-clearing servicesStreet-cleaning and sweeping services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN06)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-035714 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Performance terms

As set out in the ITT/ procurement documents.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Jaggaer · Who buys & how to bid on JAGGAER
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Submission deadline
31 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
180 days from the deadline
Bids opened
31 Aug 2022, 12:05 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

31 Aug 2022 → 17 Nov 2022 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    31 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    31 Aug 2022, 12:05 BST
  3. Notice published
    17 Nov 2022, 16:54 GMT

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    17 Nov 2022, 16:54 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £179,3731 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 65 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 1 Nov 2022
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Patterson Outdoor Cleaning Solutions LtdSMEDe-icing/gritting and outdoor maintenance services£179,373 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
6bids · 6 electronic · 6 from abroad5——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Belfast City Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services 9-21 Adelaide Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT2 8DJContact email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Royal Courts of JusticeMediation bodyReview body Belfast

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria