SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1)DESCRIPTION
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority
Supply of Fire Detection System for HMS Ocean.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Supplies
Purchase
Main place of delivery United Kingdom.
NUTS code UK
II.1.3)The notice involves
A public contract
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Fire-detection systems.
1. The Contractor shall be required to propose and supply a replacement Fire Detection System (including Onboard Spares and Ancillary Test Equipment) for HMS OCEAN which complies with Lloyds Rules Classification Society Requirements for Maritime Fire Detection Systems and MOD DefStan 02-603, 07-204 and 00-101. The system shall use commercial off the shelf equipment and software and must have the capability to be supported for 25 years. It is expected that the majority of the existing wiring will be retained. Additional cabling must be selected from DEFSTAN 02-512 (parts 2 and 8). The system shall interface with the current power available and display the state of fire at the mimic board LEDs at Command, Damage Control Head Quarters, Control Bases and indication positions.
2. The Contractor shall:
a. Provide documentation detailing the system arrangement, the components, how they should be installed, operated and maintained.
b. Liaise with the UK Repair Yard who will install the equipment.
c. Commission and Set the whole system to work.
d. Provide operator and maintainer training to trainers, operators and maintainers and Equipment Project Managers.
e. Provide an Equipment Safety Case for the system in accordance with DShips Safety and Environmental Management System.
f. Conduct Design Reviews and provide the associated administrative support, to MES-UFS nominated personnel.
g. Supply the proposed ship fit equipment, ship spares and ancillary test equipment.
h. Provide equipment installation instructions to MOD and Repair Yard.
i. Provide Commissioning and Setting To Work Documentation to MOD.
j. Conduct Commissioning and Setting To Work.
d. Provide equipment detail drawings and specifications to enable NATO Codification and spares provisioning.
e. Provide Documentation detailing the Operation of the system and equipment, fault finding and rectification and specifying the Maintenance required and work instructions, so maintainers can resolve at sea.
f. Provide Initial Training complete with supporting documentation to RN Trainers, Operators, Maintainers, and Equipment Project Managers.
g. Provide a Safety Case for the system and equipment operating, installation, storage and maintenance evolutions in accordance with DShips Safety and Environmental Management System.
QA Standards.
4. Preferred ISO 9001:2008 or comparable accredited 3rd Party (or Government Issued) Quality Management System (QMS) certification which includes an appropriate scope for Maritime Fire Detection system Proposal, Supply, Spares Support, Installation, Set To Work, Equipment User/Maintainer Training, and Safety Case production) to meet the requirement. In the event that no certification is held, the company must be able to demonstrate that they operate and maintain a QMS acceptable to the Department for this requirement.
5. A pre-qualification questionnaire will be used as part of the supplier down selection process.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
II.1.7)Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
Yes
II.1.8)Division into lots
No
II.1.9)Variants will be accepted
No
II.2)QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope
Excluding VAT
Range between 350 000 and 500 000 GBP
II.3)DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION
Starting 28.2.2011. Completion 31.1.2012
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1)CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded
III.1.4)Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject
III.2)CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: a) Is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations.
b) Is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding up or administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations.
c) Has been convicted by a judgement which has he force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct.
d) Has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by ay means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate.
e) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority.
f) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority.
g) Is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this section or has not supplied such information.
h) Has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA.
i) Has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26 May 1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively.
j) Has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities.
k) Has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: 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.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
a) A list of the works carried out over the past five years, accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most important works. These certificates shall indicate the value, date and site of the works and shall specify whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade and properly completed. Where appropriate, the competent authority shall submit these certificates to the contracting authority direct.
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.
III.2.4)Reserved contracts
No
III.3)CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1)Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession
III.3.2)Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service
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
Envisaged minimum number 5
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
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)An electronic auction will be used
Yes
Yes. A Reverse Auction, conducted using electronic means, may be used as part of the procurement process for this requirement. Specific relevant information on Reverse Auction usage will be given in the Invitation to Tender.
IV.3)ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
MES/20902
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
No
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
8.10.2010 - 12:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
English.
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1)THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT
No
VI.2)CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS
No
VI.3)ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Suppliers interested in working with the Ministry of Defence should register on the MOD Supplier Information Database (SID) Register, available at www.contracts.mod.uk. The MOD SID is a database of active and potential suppliers available to all MOD and UK Defence procurement personnel, and is the main supplier database of MOD Procurement organisations.
Please note: the registration and publication of a company profile on the MOD SID does not mean or imply that the supplier has in any way been vetted or approved by the MOD. Suppliers wishing to compete for advertised MOD contracts must respond to any specific call for competition by submitting a separate expression of interest in accordance with the instructions of the purchasing organisation.
Advertising Regime OJEU:
— These contract opportunities are published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin. The award of any subsequent contract arising from such requirements is subject to the Public Contract Regulations 2006. Where advertising is necessary in the OJEU and the DCB, the content of the two adverts must be exactly the same.
Tracker Reference: TKR-2010825-DCB-1849472.
GO Reference: GO-2010825-DCB-1849473.
VI.4)PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
MES, DE&S;
MOD Abbey Wood, Birch 3b, room 3327
BS34 8JH Bristol
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: desshipsfwe-mes-cmrcldel1b1@mod.uk
Tel. +44 3067939060
Fax +44 1179739941
Body responsible for mediation procedures
MES, DE&S;
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
VI.5)DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
25.8.2010