Number: 9423207
Country: United Kingdom
Source: TED
Fire Alarms and Emergency Lighting Maintenance and Servicing Framework 2018
The Council wishes to appoint up to 3 Contractors per lot to its Fire alarms and emergency lighting servicing and Maintenance framework to provide:
— service,
— maintenance,
— repair,
— minor adaptations or upgrades to existing fire alarms and emergency lighting and associated equipment.
The Framework will be used by the Council and contracting authorities (Customers) that it grants access. Customers can include but not limited to schools, academies, district councils, county councils, city councils, libraries, police forces, fire brigades, or similar organisations and charities.
Contractors are able to bid for one or both lots described below but must be able to meet the response time required for the lot.
— Lot 1: providing a maximum 1 hour service to any call-out required within the county environs of Leicestershire.
— Lot 2: providing a maximum 3 hour service to any call-out required outside the county environs of Leicestershire.
Further information is available in the Lot descriptions below.
Leicestershire — Providing a maximum 1 hour service to any call-out required within the county environs of Leicestershire.
Leicestershire County Council (the Client) proposes to make this Framework available to other contracting authorities and charities within the geographic region of Leicestershire.
a) Contracting authorities as defined in the Public Contract Regulations 2015;
b) Schools and Academies as defined in the Education Act 1996;
c) charities as defined in the Charities Act 2011;
d) example of contracting authorities based in county environs of Leicestershire comprise of:
i) Blaby District Council;
ii) Charnwood Borough Council;
iii) East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group;
iv) East Midlands Ambulance Service;
v) Harborough District Council;
vi) Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council;
vii) Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group;
viii) Leicester City Council;
ix) Leicestershire County Council (The Lead Authority);
x) Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service;
xi) Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust;
xii) Leicestershire Police;
xiii) Melton Borough Council;
xiv) North West Leicestershire District Council;
xv) Oadby and Wigston Borough Council;
xvi) University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust;
xvii) West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group.
The Framework will be let for an initial period of 20 months; with the option to extend for a further period of 24 months in 2 increments of 12 months. Such extensions will be subject to an Efficiency and Effectiveness Review with each of the Contractors, to be carried out no later than 3 months before the end of each framework period. The maximum period of the Framework is 44 months.
Direct Call-Off, by selecting the Contractor who achieved the best most economically advantageous score achieved at the Framework award.
Mini-competition, by issuing a mini-competition document with the aim to secure a more competitive outcome based on the tailored requirement.
Other Areas — Providing a maximum 3 hour service to any call-out required outside the county environs of Leicestershire.
Leicestershire County Council (the Client) proposes to make this Framework available to the following types of contracting authorities:
c) charities as defined in the Charities Act 2011.
Within the geographic region of the East Midlands (Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland), the West Midlands (Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire) Home Counties (Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire), East Anglia (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough), South West England (Gloucestershire), Yorkshire and The Humber (South Yorkshire). Contracting authorities and charities from other English Counties can be permitted to use this Framework.
At this time, the Client cannot be certain how many third parties will use this framework. Therefore, it is not possible to give a value. However, a local authority based on Leicestershire’s size equates to 220 000 GBP spend.
Work may be awarded by:
— direct Call-Off, by selecting the Contractor who achieved the best most economically advantageous score achieved at the Framework award,
— mini-competition, by issuing a mini-competition document with the aim to secure a more competitive outcome based on the tailored requirement.
Leicestershire County Council (LCC) will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar days standstill period at the point of information on the award of the contract, as communicated to tenderers. Applicants who are unsuccessful shall be informed by LCC as soon as possible after the decision has been made as to the reasons why the applicant was unsuccessful. If an appeal regarding the award of the contract has not been successfully resolved, The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by breach of the rules to take legal action. Any such action must be brought within the applicable limitation period. Where a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order for any document to be amended and may award damages, make a declaration of ineffectiveness, order for a fine to be paid, and/or order the duration of the contract be 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.
