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Published 7 Apr 2021, 10:08 BST

Official UK procurement notice

ID 3301123 - DfE - SERC - Provision of Cleaning and Ancillary Services to South Eastern Regional College

Official notice

Authority: FE South Eastern Regional College (Education)·Consortium: 4 public authorities

ServicesOpen procedure
Published estimate£2,223,186exc. VAT0.7% below published estimate
Submissions closed 13 May 2021awarded 22 Jun 2021
Awarded to ARAMARK IRELAND HOLDINGS LTD

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The College requires a contract for the provision of cleaning and ancillary services to the following campuses, Bangor (4 buildings), Newtownards (1 building), Holywood (3 buildings), Lisburn (3 buildings) and will have an initial period of 60 months with options to extend for a further 3 x 12 months. The Contractor shall provide professionally managed ancillary, (feminine hygiene, barrier matting, window cleaning and grounds maintenance) services and high quality cleaning services that provides a comprehensive, efficient, user friendly, customer focused and cost effective service to meet the needs of SERC and its students, staff and visitors.

CPV: Building and facilities management services · Building-cleaning services · Cleaning and sanitation services · Facilities management services · Grounds maintenance services · Office cleaning services · School cleaning services · Window-cleaning services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£2,223,186
Extensions: 3 optional extension periods of up to 12 months each · It is anticipated this contract will be retendered at the end of the initial contract period or the optional extensionsVariant 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: 30%Price: 70%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • As per tender documents: 30%
  • As per tender documents: 70%
Published award criteria (2)
  • As per tender documents: 30
  • As per tender documents: 70
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

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
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
Yes
First published
7 Apr 2021, 10:08 BST
Last source update
23 Jun 2021, 11:25 BST
Award evaluation window
13 May 2021 – …
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-014288
Classification (CPV)
Building and facilities management servicesBuilding-cleaning servicesCleaning and sanitation servicesFacilities management servicesGrounds maintenance servicesOffice cleaning servicesSchool cleaning servicesWindow-cleaning services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02a308 Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

CPD complied with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and applied a standstill period (minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract was communicated to tenderers. The notification provided full information on the award decision. This provided time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract was entered into.

Publisher note: The contractor’s performance on this contract will be managed as per specification and regularly monitored see Procurement Guidance Note 01/12 contract. 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 Procurement Delivery (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 notice of unsatisfactory performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a notice 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 12 months from the date of issue of the. certificate. The authority expressly reserved the rights: (i) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;. (ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and. in no circumstances will the authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates;. (iii) to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the (services) covered by this notice; and (iv) to award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the authority be liable for any. costs incurred by candidates.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
13 May 2021, 15:00 BST
Submission channel
{"written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
13 May 2021, 15:30 BST

Timeline

13 May 2021 → 11 Aug 2021 · 4 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    13 May 2021, 15:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    13 May 2021, 15:30 BST
  3. Notice published
    23 Jun 2021, 11:25 BST
  4. Bids must remain valid until
    11 Aug 2021, 23:59 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    23 Jun 2021, 11:25 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £2,207,4621 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 6
Contracts signed 1latest 22 Jun 2021
Awarded toValueDateStatus
ARAMARK IRELAND HOLDINGS LTDContract£2,207,462 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
6bids · 6 electronic · 1 from abroad0——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

4 public bodies on the notice

FE South Eastern Regional College

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation Victoria Avenue, Newtownards, UK, BT23 7EHContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Consortium members and other public bodies

  • Bangor South Eastern Regional CollegeContracting authority Bangor, UKContact email
  • Holywood South Eastern Regional CollegeContracting authority Holywood, UKContact email
  • SERC LisburnContracting authority Lisburn, UKContact email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • This is not applicable in the UKReview body This is not applicable in the UK
  • This is not applicable to the UKReview body This is not applicable to the UK

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria