United Kingdom-Coedkernew: Pipeline, piping, pipes, casing, tubing and related items

Type of document: Invitation to tender
Country: United Kingdom
OJEU Ref: (2016/S 069-121144/EN)
Nature of contract: Supply contract
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
Regulation of procurement: EU
Type of bid required: Mixed global and partial bid

Contract notice
Supplies
Directive 2004/17/EC
Section I: Contracting authority/entity
I.1) Name addresses and contact point(s):
Wales and West Utilities Limited
Wales and West House, Celtic Springs
Coedkernew
Postal code: NP10 8FZ
United Kingdom
For the attention of: Nicci Birchall
Email: wwuprocurement@wwutilities.co.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2) Main activity:
Production, transport and distribution of gas and heat
I.3) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities:
The contracting entity is purchasing on behalf of other contracting entities: no
Section II: Object of the contract:
II.1) Description:
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority/entity:
Live/Dead Gas Insertion/Annular Gap Materials.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Supplies
Type of supplies contract: Purchase
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Wales and South West of England.
Nuts code: UK
II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS):
The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement:
Framework agreement with several operators
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 10
Duration of the framework agreement in months: 60
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 2 500 000 and 5 000 000 GBP
II.1.5) Short description of the specific contract:
Wales & West Utilities Limited (WWU), is a regulated gas distribution business with around 35 000km of gas distribution pipelines located within Wales and the South West of England.
We are seeking expressions of interest (EOI’s) from suppliers who can provide the following:
Materials and equipment used in the renewal of gas distribution mains pipelines through Live and Dead Insertion techniques. Wales & West Utilities Limited are committed to and have fully embraced Live Gas insertion of new PE pipe mains within old/existing steel/cast gas mains.
Further information is available on our e-sourcing platform by invitation once registered.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 44160000,24958000,39812500,39340000
II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): NO
II.1.8) Lots:
The contract is divided into lots:yes
Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
II.1.9) Information about variants:
Variants will be accepted: YES
II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract:
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:
We are seeking expressions of interest (EOI’s) from suppliers who can provide the following:
Materials and equipment used in the renewal of gas distribution mains pipelines through Live and Dead Insertion techniques. Wales & West Utilities Limited are committed to and have fully embraced Live Gas insertion of new PE pipe mains within old/existing steel/cast gas mains. This includes Annular Gap Sealants and Live and Dead gas main insertion products (Gland boxes/Insertion heads/End Seals/Insertion Seal Kits/Foam bag kits).
Range: between 2 500 000 and 5 000 000 GBP
II.2.2) Information about options:
Options: yes
Description of these options: The contract term will be 3 years with the option to extend for 2 years in 6 month periods.
II.2.3) Information about renewals:
This contract is subject to renewal: no
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion:
Duration in months: 60 (from the award of the contract)

Information about lots
Lot No: 1; Lot title: Annular Gap Sealants
1) Short description: Annular Gap Sealants used in the renewal of gas distribution mains pipelines through Live and Dead Insertion techniques.

2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 39812500,24958000
3) Quantity or scope:
Details will be provided within the tender documentation.
Lot No: 2; Lot title: Live Gas Insertion Products
1) Short description: Wales & West Utilities Limited are committed to and have fully embraced Live Gas insertion of new PE pipe mains within old/existing steel/cast gas mains. This includes Annular Gap Sealants and Live and Dead gas main insertion products (Gland boxes/Insertion heads/End Seals/Insertion Seal Kits/Foam bag kits).

2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 44160000,39340000
3) Quantity or scope:
Lot No: 3; Lot title: Dead Gas Insertion Products
1) Short description: Wales & West Utilities Limited are committed to and have fully embraced Live Gas insertion of new PE pipe mains within old/existing steel/cast gas mains. This includes Annular Gap Sealants and Live and Dead gas main insertion products (Gland boxes/Insertion heads/End Seals/Insertion Seal Kits/Foam bag kits).

2) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 44160000,39340000
3) Quantity or scope:
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions relating to the contract:
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:
To be identified in the Invitation to Tender if required.

III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
To be identified in the Invitation to Tender if required.

III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
In the event that Contractors form a joint venture, partnership or other form of consortia, joint and several liability of each participant will be required by the Contracting Entity.

III.1.4) Other particular conditions:
The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no
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 the requirements are met: Applicants will be ineligible for participation in the tender process where the applicant:
a) Is bankrupt or is being wound up, whose affairs are being administered by the Court, who has entered into an arrangement with creditors or who is 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 for an arrangement with creditors or is the subject of any other similar proceedings under national laws or regulations;
c) Has a serving director or partner who has been convicted of an offence concerning his professional conduct by a judgement which has the force of res judicata;
d) Has a serving director or partner who has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by a judgement which the contracting entity can justify;
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 those of the country of the contracting entity;
f) Is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under the provisions of the Directive on the criteria for qualitative criteria.
Applicants are required to supply a declaration that none of the foregoing apply as part of their Expression of Interest application.
Applicants are required to register on our e-sourcing platform Bravosolution. Please proceed to the following address and click on ‘Register Now’. If you do not register and advise WWU you have registered we will be unable to include you in future rounds of this sourcing event. If you have previously registered please check your details are correct, in particular that the e-mail address is correct: www.sourcing4wwu.bravosolution.co.uk
III.2.2) Economic and financial ability:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: To be identified in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

III.2.3) Technical capacity:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:Information will be requested at the Pre-qualification/Invitation to tender stages of this process.
III.2.4) Information about reserved contracts:
III.3) Conditions specific to services 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:
NEGOTIATED
Some candidates have already been selected (if appropriate under certain types of negotiated procedures): NO
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:
IV.3) Administrative information:
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity:
WWU0741
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
No
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
Payable documents: No
IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
06.05.2016 – 12:00
IV.3.5) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:
IV.3.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:
IV.3.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence:
This is a recurrent procurement: Yes
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 2018 if extension option not taken.
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:
Applicants must respond to this notice via e-mail and must be registered on WWU’s BravoSolution platform to be invited to participate in future rounds of this sourcing event by the deadline of this notice.
If you are not registered or are registered but have not advised us of your registration we cannot add you to the sourcing project and you cannot participate in this sourcing project.
Please proceed to www.sourcing4wwu.bravosolution.co.uk and click on ‘Register Now’.
If you have previously registered on www.sourcing4wwu.bravosolution.co.uk please check all the details are correct (do not re-register if you have done so previously).
Once you have registered/checked your details are correct please e-mail wwuprocurement@wwutilities.co.uk confirming your registration and expressing your interest to participate.
Those applicants who satisfy the conditions as indicated in Section III.2.1) will be invited to participate in the next phase of this sourcing process.
This tender process will determine whether applicants can provide an economically advantageous service to the client, which may lead to an award of contract.
All communications from applicants requesting to participate must be by via electronic mail to: wwuprocurement@wwutilities.co.uk
Applicants are advised that the contract duration indicated in II.3) is an indicative period under consideration. The dates and associated conditions will be stipulated in the Invitation to Tender.
Applicants should note that Wales and West Utilities employ an eSourcing system and all participants will be required to use this system whilst tendering.

VI.4) Procedures for appeal
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 06.04.2016