Scaffolding Services

Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: SCAFFOLDING SERVICES
2. Awarding Authority: Thames Water Utilities Limited, Reading, GB, RG18DB. Email: procurement.support.centre@thameswater.co.uk. (Thames Water)
3. Contract type: Supply contract
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
4. Description: The Awarding Authority require scaffolding services across the whole Thames Water region to provide safe access to assets so that TWUL and/or our contractors can carry out repair and maintenance activities.
We will have award to multiple suppliers where, if spend is under £4K or it is an emergency requirement (due to reactive nature of the work), one supplier will be appointed by direct award geographically (South London, North London and Thames Valley).
Any works deemed to be close to or exceed £4K will trigger a mini competition amongst all 3 suppliers.
We will award one supplier per area for sub-£4K works. Please note that regardless of what area you are successful in, you are required to bid and undertake work over £4K in any region.
5. CPV Code(s): 44212310, 45262100, 45262110, 45262120
6. NUTS code(s): UKJ, UKJ1, UKJ11, UKI
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Place of performance :UKI – London
UKJ – South East (England)
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Publication reference: 2021/S 000-005584
Reference Number: FA1591
9. Estimated value of requirement: Value excluding VAT: £14,800,000
10. Time limit for receipt of projects or requests to participate 19.4.2021 (12:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:
12. Other information: Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address
Main activity
Water
This contract is divided into lots: No
Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Duration of the contract, frame agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months
96
This contract is subject to renewal
Yes
Description of renewals
Thames Water envisages that the contract will be awarded for an initial term of 3 years with options to extend up to a maximum duration of 8 years.
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged number of candidates: 8
Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
Information about options
Options: Yes
Description of options
Thames Water envisages that the contract will be awarded for an initial term of 3 years with options to extend up to a maximum duration of 8 years.
Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Framework agreement with several operators
Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 3
Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: Yes
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
Additional information
All suppliers who wish to respond to this contract notice must request a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) by using the web link in Section I.3 (www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement).
From your response to the link in Section I.3 or above, Thames Water’s Procurement Support Centre will send you an email providing login details for our eSourcing system (i.e. IASTA Smartsource). To complete the PQQ you will need to login to IASTA Smartsource. If the project requires it, you will receive an additional and separate survey to complete for Data Protection.
Note – The client may be Thames Water Utilities Limited or another company within the Kemble Water group structure.
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