Utility Supply and Energy Management Services Framework

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      "maximumLotsAwardedPerSupplier": 7
    },
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        "maximumParticipants": 42
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      "startDate": "2022-08-08T12:00:00+01:00"
    },
    "description": "The Contracting Authority wishes to establish a Framework Agreement to meet the Utility Supply and Energy Management Services needs of the University of Essex, https://www.essex.ac.uk/ and It is also open for use by all contracting authorities across the UK public sector (and any future successors to these organisations). These include (but not limited to) central government departments and agencies, Non Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies, Local Authorities, Police Authorities, Emergency Services, Educational Establishments, Hospices, Registered Charities, National Parks and Registered Social Landlords. Full details of the classification of eligible end user establishments and geographical areas is available at:\n\nhttps://www.dukefieldenergy.co.uk/fts-eligible-users\n\nThere will be let across seven Lots. There will be a maximum of 6 suppliers awarded a place on each of the Lots",
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      "endDate": "2022-08-08T12:00:00+01:00"
    },
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    "reviewDetails": "The University of Essex will incorporate a minimum 10-day standstill period at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. Bidders who are unsuccessful shall be informed by the Contracting Authority as soon as possible after the decision is made as to the reasons why the bidder was unsuccessful. If an appeal regarding the award of the contract has not been successfully \n resolved, the Public Procurement Regulations provide for the aggrieved parties who have been harmed or who are at risk of harm by the breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any action must be generally brought within 3 months. If a declaration of ineffectiveness is sought, any such action must be brought within 30 days where the Contracting Authority has communicated the award of the contract and a summary of reasons to tenderers, or otherwise within 6 months of the contract being entered into.\n\nWhere a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the Contracting Authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the Contract has been entered into the Court may, depending on the circumstances, award damages, make a declaration of ineffectiveness, order the Contracting Authority to pay a fine, and/or order that the duration of the contract the shortened. The purpose of the standstill period referred to above is to allow the parties to apply to the Courts to set aside the award decision before the contract is entered into.",
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    },
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      ]
    },
    "submissionMethod": [
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    "procurementMethod": "open",
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    "submissionMethodDetails": "https://suppliers.multiquote.com",
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      "name": "University of Essex",
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        "reviewBody",
        "mediationBody",
        "reviewContactPoint"
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      "address": {
        "region": "UK",
        "locality": "Colchester",
        "postalCode": "CO4 3SQ",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "Wivenhoe Park"
      },
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        "url": "https://www.essex.ac.uk/",
        "buyerProfile": "https://www.essex.ac.uk/",
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            "id": "09",
            "scheme": "COFOG",
            "description": "Education"
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        ]
      },
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        "legalName": "University of Essex"
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      "contactPoint": {
        "url": "https://suppliers.multiquote.com",
        "email": "nick.gauntlett@dukefieldenergy.co.uk",
        "telephone": "+44 7513480033"
      },
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          "email": "phil.sweeting@essex.ac.uk",
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        }
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  "description": "The University of Essex's Internal Reference Number is ESSEX/UPG/ENERGY/02. The framework is being delivered by the University of Essex and its partners Dukefield Energy Ltd (who are a subsidiary of Dukefield Group Ltd). Dukefield Energy Ltd are acting as agents of the University of Essex in the development and ongoing contract management of this framework. The contracting authority will be using an eTendering system to conduct the procurement exercise. To access the procurement documentation suppliers must register their company details on the Sourcing Cloud system at:\n\nhttps://suppliers.multiquote.com\n\nthe tender is available from the opportunities menu on the login page of the site.\n\nThe contracting authority shall not be under any obligation to accept the lowest tender or indeed any tender. The University of Essex expressly reserves the rights:\n(a) to terminate the procurement process and not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process at any time;\n(b) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the procurement as detailed within the tender documentation;\n(c) to award a contract covering only part of the it's requirements if explicitly detailed within the tender documentation;\n(d) to disqualify any organisation from the process that canvasses any employee of the Contracting Authority during the procurement process or standstill period if applicable;\n(e) seek clarifications to tender responses on the basis that any clarification sought will not confer any undue competitive advantage in the favour of any supplier from whom such clarifications are being sought;\n(f) where the contracting authority can evidence that there is a conflict of interest, either personal or in consideration of any organisation bidding for the contract, the contracting authority shall have the explicit right to immediately exclude that person or organisation from the tender process entirely;\n(g) where the contracting authority has engaged in any pre-market soft testing prior to the commencement of the procurement process, the contracting authority reserves the right to name any organisation that has been involved in these discussions and release any and all specifications/discussion documents to the market where appropriate to the subject matter of this procurement;\n(h) the contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by tenderers;\n(i) the value of the framework provided in section II.1.5) is only an estimate and the contracting authority will not guarantee any business through this framework agreement; and \n(j) the contracting authority wishes to establish a framework agreement open for use by all Public Sector Bodies as stated in II.1.4).\n\nTenderers should note, in reference to section IV.1.3), envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework:\n\nWhere, following the evaluation of bids, more than one tenderer on a Lot is tied with the same final evaluation score and are ranked in the last supplier award position, each of these tenderers shall be deemed to occupy the last framework agreement contract award position for the Lot in question for the purpose of calculating the maximum number of suppliers under the framework.\n\nThe contracting authority will award a framework agreement to additional tenderers on a particular Lot beyond the stated maximum number for that Lot, where their final evaluation score (s) is within 0.5% of the last placed position only on the particular Lot. For the avoidance of doubt, the last placed position in respect of this framework on each lot is sixth place. Therefore, tenderers within 0.5%, along with the tenderer in last placed position on a lot, shall be deemed to occupy the last framework agreement contract award position for that particular lot.",
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}