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Published 9 Jun 2023, 14:14 BST

Official UK procurement notice

DfE - NRC - Supply Delivery Installation Training and Maintenance of 7 x Manual Centre Lathes

Official notice

Authority: DfE - Northern Regional College (Education)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

GoodsOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£175,000exc. VAT5.7% below published estimate
Submissions closed 17 Jul 2023awarded 19 Sept 2023
Awarded to GILLEN MACHINE TOOLS LTD

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Northern Regional College at Coleraine is a Further and Higher Education College. One of the specialisms of the Advanced Technologies Department is precision machining. This contract is for the supply, delivery, offloading, siting, installation including fixing securely position in accordance with manufacturers recommendations, of 7 Manual Centre Lathes and tooling accessories detailed in the Specification to the Machining Workshop at NRC (Northern Regional College) Coleraine.

CPV: Industrial machinery · Lathes · Lathes, boring and milling machine tools · Machine tools · Machine tools for boring metal · Machine tools for drilling metal · Machine tools for drilling, boring or milling metal · Machine tools for finishing metals · Numerically-controlled machines for metal

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedPublished value£175,000
Extensions: The Client may, at its sole discretion, extend the duration of this Contract for any Extension Period up to and including 12 months commencing from the expiry date of the original Contract Term by giving the Contractor no less than one 1 Month’s written notice prior to the end of the Initial Term.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
  • Price
Conditions of participation2
  • Economic & financial standing

    As Per Tender Documentation

  • Technical & professional ability

    As Per Tender Documentation

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
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
9 Jun 2023, 14:14 BST
Last source update
20 Sept 2023, 11:09 BST
Award evaluation window
17 Jul 2023 – …
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-027752
Classification (CPV)
Industrial machineryLathesLathes, boring and milling machine toolsMachine toolsMachine tools for boring metalMachine tools for drilling metalMachine tools for drilling, boring or milling metalMachine tools for finishing metalsNumerically-controlled machines for metal
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03d519 Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. 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.

Publisher note: Contract Monitoring. Contract monitoring: the successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. 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 Construction and Procurement Delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, this may be considered grounds for termination of the contract at your expense as provided for in the Conditions of Contract. In lieu of termination, CPD may issue a Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance. A supplier in receipt of multiple Notices of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance may, in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended), be excluded from future public procurement competitions for a period of up to three years.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
17 Jul 2023, 15:00 BST
Submission channel
{"written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
17 Jul 2023, 15:30 BST

Timeline

17 Jul 2023 → 15 Oct 2023 · 4 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    17 Jul 2023, 15:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    17 Jul 2023, 15:30 BST
  3. Notice published
    20 Sept 2023, 11:09 BST
  4. Bids must remain valid until
    15 Oct 2023, 23:59 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Sept 2023
  1. Status changed to complete
    20 Sept 2023, 11:09 BST
  2. Buyer details updated
    20 Sept 2023, 11:09 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £165,0951 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 41 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 19 Sept 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
GILLEN MACHINE TOOLS LTDSMEContract£165,095 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
4bids · 4 electronic · 1 from abroad1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

DfE - Northern Regional College

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawGeneral public services Coleraine, UKContact email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation proceduresReview body Belfast
  • 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 amendedReview body NA

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.