Supply of CARM (Chemical Agent Resistant Material)

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: The 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 declaration of good standing will be sought in the pre-qualification questionnaire.

Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender:

1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once)

• Browse to the eSourcing Portal
• Click the “Click here to register” link
• Accept the terms and conditions and click “continue”
• Enter your correct business and user details
• Note the username you chose and click “Save” when complete
• You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure)

2. Express an Interest in the tender

• Login to the portal with the username/password
• Click the "PQQs Open to All Suppliers" link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires open to any registered supplier)
• Click on the relevant PQQ to access the content.
• Click the “Express Interest” button in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page.
• This will move the PQQ into your “My PQQs” page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only)
• Click on the PQQ code, you can now access any attachments by clicking the “Settings and Buyer Attachments” in the “Actions” box

3. Responding to the tender

• You can now choose to “Reply” or “Reject” (please give a reason if rejecting)
• You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification
• Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ
• There may be a mixture of online & offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available)

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Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:

(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 three 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.

It is anticipated that the majority of the contract will be fulfilled within the first year of the contract with the remainder of the contract duration available for ad-hoc buys. If the estimated contract value is greater than 40% of the supplier’s turnover, the authority reserves the right to exclude the supplier from being selected to tender except where the supplier provides, to the satisfaction of the authority, evidence showing it has sufficient economic and financial capability, for example such evidence may include:

(1) any additional information proving it has sufficient economic and financial resources to deliver the requirement; and

(2) stating whether the supplier is willing to provide the Authority with an indemn…

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:

(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.

(c) A statement of the principal goods sold or services provided by the supplier or the services provider in the past 5 years, or during a shorter period if necessary, and

(i) the dates on which the goods were sold or the services provided;

(ii) the consideration received;

(iii) the identity of the person to whom the goods were sold or the service were provided;

(iv) any certificate issued or countersigned by that person confirming the details of the contract for those goods sold or services provided; and

(v) where

(a) that person was not a contracting authority, and

(b) the certific…