United Kingdom-Manchester: Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products – Framework Lead

The current contract for Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products – Framework Lead is projected to end on 06-DEC-18 and may be available for retender.
Description:
Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:: Framework for the Provision of Flooring Supplies.

Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Supplies
A combination of these
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: This framework is for the use of the Public Sector throughout the United Kingdom, with the exception of Northern Ireland where the framework will only be open to members of Crescent Purchasing Consortium and the North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium.
NUTS code UK

Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with several operators
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 28
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 4
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 350 000 and 24 500 000 GBP

Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Contracting Authority wishes to establish a framework agreement for the provision of Flooring Supplies.
The framework will focus upon the supply of flooring materials and associated services, e.g. the provision of advice and guidance, across seven lots as detailed below. It is the contracting authority’s intention that the framework will not address the fitting of said supplies and that framework users will be responsible for engaging appropriate fitters where required, either by separate contractual relationship through the awarded framework supplier of the flooring supplies, or through other separate local contractual arrangements.
The Contracting Authority wishes to establish a Framework Agreement to meet the Flooring Supplies needs of organisations across the entire public sector; covering a broad range of flooring supplies. The framework is let on behalf of the Crescent Purchasing Consortium (hereafter CPC), North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium and Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium but will also be open for use by all other public sector contracting authorities (and any future successors to these organisations),(as defined in Article 1 (9) of Directive 2004/18/EC and implemented by Regulation 3 of the Public Contract Regulations 2006) or their agents. These include but are not limited to central government departments and their agencies,
Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), NHS bodies (including; acute trusts, ambulance trusts, primary care trusts, care trusts, NHS hospital trusts, strategic health authorities, mental health trusts, special health authorities), Local Authorities (as defined in Regulation3 (2) to (5) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (‘the Regulations’), Police Authorities (as defined by Regulation 3 (1) (j) to (p) of the Regulations), Emergency Services, Educational Establishments (including Schools, Universities, Academies, Academies Trusts, Free Schools, Colleges of Further Education) and Registered Social Landlords who have a need to purchase these services.
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Scottish Public Bodies
The framework agreement will be available for use by any Scottish Public Sector Body: the Authority; Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies; offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices; cross border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998; the Scotland Office; the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body; councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (except where they are acting in their capacity as educational authority); Scottish joint fire boards or joint fire and rescue boards; Scottish joint police boards or any successor National Police or Fire Authority; Scottish National Park authorities, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing(Scotland) Act 2001, Scottish health boards or special health boards, Student Loans Company Limited, Northern Lighthouse Board, further or higher education institutions being fundable bodies within the meaning of section 6of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005 any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the foregoing.
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There will be 7 Lots available under this framework:
Lot 1 – Contract Carpets
Lot 2 – Domestic Grade Carpets
Lot 3 – Wood Flooring (hardwood and laminate)
Lot 4 – Vinyl Flooring
Lot 5 – Hygiene Treated Carpets and Tiles
Lot 6 – Carpet Tiles
Lot 7 – Entrance Matting

Information about variants: Variants will be accepted: no

Information about renewals: This contract is subject to renewal: no