Establishment of a Framework Agreement to provide a full range of Professional Services, including: Design Services, Drafting Services, Engineering Substantiation, Engineering Validation, Safety Cases, Environmental Cases, Environmental Support Services, Project Management, Specialist Engineering, Specialist Safety Case, Peer Review Services, Decommissioning & Strategic Studies, Waste Strategy Documents, Business Support, Technical Support.
CONTACT:
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited, Building D2003, Dounreay, Caithness, Contact: Contracts Officer, Attn: Karen Anderson, UK-Thurso KW14 7TZ. Tel. +44 1847806031. E-mail: karen.anderson@dounreay.com. Fax +44 1847802521.
General address of the contracting authority: www.dounreay.com.
DESCRIPTION
Provision of Professional Services.
Service category: No 11.
Main place of performance: Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7TZ.
NUTS code: UKM61 .
The notice involves:
The establishment of a framework agreement.
Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with several operators.
Maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 4.
Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 4.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 30 000 000,00 GBP.
SCOPE
Total quantity or scope:
Establishment of a Framework Agreement to provide a full range of Professional Services, including:
Design Services, Drafting Services, Engineering Substantiation, Engineering Validation, Safety Cases, Environmental Cases, Environmental Support Services, Project Management, Specialist Engineering, Specialist Safety Case, Peer Review Services, Decommissioning & Strategic Studies, Waste Strategy Documents, Business Support, Technical Support.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 20 000 000,00 and 30 000 000,00 GBP.
DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:
Starting: 1.4.2010. Completion: 31.3.2014.
PROCEDURE
Type of procedure: Restricted.
Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
Envisaged minimum number: 7. Maximum number: 8
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: If more than the required number of qualified candidates meet the conditions of participation (as set out in section III), the qualified candidates will be ranked by Dounreay Site Restoration Limited using a marking scale based on primarily on the aforementioned selection criteria in order to find those candidates which will be invited to tender.
Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no.
AWARD CRITERIA
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.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 3.12.2009 - 12:00.
Payable documents: no.
Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 10.12.2009 - 16:15.
Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: 6.1.2010.
Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: English.
