Sovereign Housing Association : Resident Magazine and Public Relation Services

UK-Christchurch: Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Spectrum Housing Group
      Spectrum House, Grange Road, Christchurch, BH23 4GE, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1258484884, Email: tina.partridge@spectrumhousing.co.uk, URL: http://www.spectrumhousing.co.uk
      Contact: Marketing, Attn: Tina Partridge

      Further information can be obtained at: As Above       
      Specifications and additional documents: As Above       
      Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As Above       
   
   I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
      Body governed by public law

   I.3) Main activity:
      Housing and community amenities

   I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities:
      The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: No

Section II: Object Of The Contract: SERVICES
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: Resident Magazine and Public Relation Services
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 27

         Region Codes: UKK22 - Dorset CC         
      II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework or a dynamic purchasing system:The notice involves a public contract                                                       
      
      II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines. To provide residents with greater access to information on local and Group-wide activities•To provide a quality Resident magazine and Public Relations services•To deliver affordable and Value for Money (VfM) Resident magaziness and Public Relations Services•To provide residents with timely and interesting information that is relevant to them whilst giving every opportunity for residents to get involved in the production of their newsletter. Establishing good relationships with all those involved is imperative. The Team is also looking for innovation to realise efficiency savings throughout the duration of the contract. Length of contract to be 12 months with an option to renew for a further 5 years subject to satisfactory performance against agreed Key Performance Indicators .
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         22200000 - Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines.
         

      II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): Yes       
      II.1.8)Lots:
         This contract is divided into lots: Not Provided
      II.1.9)Information about variants:
         Variants will be accepted: Not Provided   
   
   II.2)Quantity Or Scope Of The Contract
      II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
      The supplier will be required to provide the following services:Residents’ Magazine – 4 times a year including an on-line version •Photography and Videography – for use within the newsletter and Spectrum’s on-line digital channels.Resident Annual reports – 5 versions produced annually •Provision of public relations services as required including press release writing and event organisingPrint and mail is excluded from this contract         
         Estimated value excluding VAT: 75,000
         Currency: GBP
                        
      
      II.2.2)Options: No          
         II.2.3)Information about renewals:
            This contract is subject to renewal: Not Provided         
   II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion      
         Duration in months: 72 (from the award of the contract)


Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial And Technical Information
   III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
      III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
      A parent company guarantee, warranties, or deposits maybe required. Appropriate levels of insurance will also be required. Further details will be provided in the tender documentation
      
      III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
      All financing conditions and payment arrangements will be set out in the tender documentation
      
      III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
      No specific legal form is required, but the Contracting Authority reserves the right to require a lead economic operator to undertake primary contractual liability for the contract or to require that each economic operator becomes jointly and severally responsible for the contract before acceptance
      
      III.1.4)Other particular conditions:
         The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions:Yes       
      If Yes, description of particular conditions:
      Economic Operators may be required to participate in the achievements of social/environmental policy objectives relating to and in line with the Social Value Act 2012 including training, digital inclusion, neighbourhood engagement, legacy initiatives and supply chain initiatives. Accordingly contract performance conditions may relate to the social and environmental considerations.      
   III.2)Conditions For Participation
      III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
         The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
         
         A full list of these criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr
         
         Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists. Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so. Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
      
      III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
         Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:         
         (a) appropriate statements from banks 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) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         The PQQ will request specific responses and information from the economic operator. The PQQ response will be reviewed by the Contracting Authority in accordance with the evaluation criteria set out in the PQQ. The PQQ will request the following information: a) audited accounts for the most recent two years (plus where these accounts are more than 12 months old, provide the most recent management accounts (profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statements)).Where an economic operator does not have sufficient trading history, the PQQ will request :a) most recent management accounts (profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statements); and b) statement detailing how your business is funded. A bankers reference maybe requested. Evidence that the economic operator and relevant organisations have or shall have at contract award Employer's liability insurance, Public Liability Insurance and Professional Indemnity Insurance
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         (b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: - where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, - where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;
         (c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work;
         (d) a description of the technical facilities and measures used by the supplier or service provider for ensuring quality and the undertaking's study and research facilities;
         (e) where the products or services to be supplied are complex or, exceptionally, are required for a special purpose, a check carried out by the contracting authorities or on their behalf by a competent official body of the country in which the supplier or service provider is established, subject to that body's agreement, on the production capacities of the supplier or the technical capacity of the service provider and, if necessary, on the means of study and research which are available to it and the quality control measures it will operate;
         (f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;
         (h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years;
         (i) a statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract;
         (j) an indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract;
         (k) with regard to the products to be supplied: (i) samples, descriptions and/or photographs, the authenticity of which must be certified if the contracting authority so requests; (ii) certificates drawn up by official quality control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting the conformity of products clearly identified by references to specifications or standards.
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         The PQQ response will be reviewed by the Contracting Authority in accordance with the evaluation criteria set out in the PQQ      
      III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts: Not Provided   
   III.3)Conditions Specific To Service Contracts
      III.3.1)Information about a particular profession:
         Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: No       
      III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service:
         Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: No
Section IV: Procedure
   IV.1)Type Of Procedure
      IV.1.1)Type of procedure: Restricted
      
      IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
                Not Provided
   
   IV.2)Award Criteria
      IV.2.1)Award criteria:      
         The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
            The criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

      IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction:
         An electronic auction will be used: No       

   IV.3)Administrative Information
      IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: Not Provided      
      IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No

      IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:

      Date: 31/10/2014
      Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 14:00
         Payable documents: No       
      
      IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
         Date: 17/11/2014
         Time: 14:00      
      IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: Not Provided      
      IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:         English
         


Section VI: Complementary Information

   VI.1)This Is A Recurrent Procurement: No
   VI.2)Information about European Union funds:
      The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No       
   VI.3)Additional Information: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Christchurch:-Newspapers%2C-journals%2C-periodicals-and-magazines./979AJBFYC5

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/979AJBFYC5
GO-2014926-PRO-6041724 TKR-2014926-PRO-6041723
   
   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      High Court of England and Wales
      Strand,, London, WC2A 2LL, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 2079476000

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: The Contracting Authority will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to the economic operators. The notification will provide the full required information on the award decision and details of the person to contact should you have any queries. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful economic operators to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. Any tenderer wishing to appeal the decision to award the contract, or after the award of the contract appeal the award of the contract, shall have the rights set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.   
   
      VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
            Not Provided

   VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 26/09/2014

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