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Herefordshire Council and Gloucestershire County Council have awarded a contract for the provision of Next Generation Access broadband services to as many of the rural premises in their counties as possible.

Contract award notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Herefordshire Council on behalf of itself and Gloucestershire County Council
Brockington, 35 Hafod Road
For the attention of: Matthew Smith
HR1 1SH Hereford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1432260000

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.herefordshire.gov.uk

I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.3)Main activity
General public services
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes

Gloucestershire County Council

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract
Borders Broadband Herefordshire & Gloucestershire (inclusive of BDUK Pilot).
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 5: Telecommunications services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Rural Herefordshire and Rural Gloucestershire.

NUTS code UKG11

II.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Herefordshire Council and Gloucestershire County Council have awarded a contract for the provision of Next Generation Access broadband services to as many of the rural premises in their counties as possible.
II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

64200000, 72315000, 50334400, 50330000, 45232300, 32571000, 32562200, 32510000, 32412100, 32425000, 32420000, 32424000, 32412000, 32412110, 32500000, 32570000, 45000000, 45231600, 45232332, 50332000, 51300000, 64227000, 72400000

II.1.6)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes
II.2)Total final value of contract(s)
II.2.1)Total final value of contract(s)
Value: 35 346 934 GBP
Excluding VAT

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
competitive dialogue
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
1. Technical. Weighting 27
2. Deployment. Weighting 32
3. Finance. Weighting 32
4. Contractual. Weighting 10
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Contract notice

Notice number in the OJEU: 2011/S 110-181875 of 9.6.2011

Section V: Award of contract

Lot title: Borders Broadband Herefordshire & Gloucestershire (inclusive of BDUK Pilot)
V.1)Date of contract award decision:
14.12.2012
V.2)Information about offers
Number of offers received: 1
V.3)Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken

British Telecommunications Plc
81 Newgate Street
EC1A 7AJ London
UNITED KINGDOM

V.4)Information on value of contract
V.5)Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: yes
Value or proportion of the contract likely to be sub-contracted to third parties:
Not known

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about European Union funds
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: yes
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): There is potential from some funding under the contract to be provided under the Rural Development Programme for England.
VI.2)Additional information:
The award criteria used was as follows, however the pro-forma award notice will not allow decimal places and so two of the weighting had to be rounded up in the award criteria section:
- Technical 27 %,
- Deployment 31.5 %,
- Finance 31.5 %,
- Contractual 10 %.
(MT Ref:96279)
VI.3)Procedures for appeal
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

Herefordshire Council
Brockington, 35 Hafod Road
HR1 1SH Hereford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1432260000

VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:
2.1.2013