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DOJ - NIPS - Learning and Skills Service Provision for Prisoners.

Contract award notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

Department of Justice, Northern Ireland Prison Service
Dundonald House, Upper Newtownards Road
For the attention of: Aislinn Gray
BT4 3SU Belfast
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
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: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract
DOJ - NIPS - Learning and Skills Service Provision for Prisoners.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 24: Education and vocational education services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Northern Ireland Prison Service Establishments.

NUTS code UKN

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)
The contract is for Learning and Skills Service Provision.
II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

80000000

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: 956 000 GBP
Excluding VAT

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (in the cases listed in Section 2 of Annex D1)
Justification for the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU):
Directive 2004/18/EC

1) Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU in accordance with Directive 2004/18/EC

2) Other justification for the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU

The contract has as its object services listed in Annex II B to the Directive.
This competition was for Part B services, therefore only Parts 1, 9 and 10 and a number of provisions in parts 2-8 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) applied to this competition (see regulation 5).
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
1. Compliance with Minimum Standards
2. Methodology. Weighting 16
3. Contract Management. Weighting 7
4. Quality Assurance. Weighting 7
5. Price. Weighting 70
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction has been used: no
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority
Project 11255
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
no

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: PR11255 Lot title: DOJ - NIPS Learning and Skills Service Provision for Prisoners
V.1)Date of contract award decision:
4.11.2013
V.2)Information about offers
Number of offers received: 4
V.3)Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken

Central Procurement Directorate cannot publish the names of the 4 successful tenderers for each Lot for security reasons. However, this information can be released to the Commission upon request.

V.4)Information on value of contract
Initial estimated total value of the contract:
Value: 900 000 GBP
Excluding VAT
Total final value of the contract:
Value: 956 000 GBP
Excluding VAT
If annual or monthly value:
Number of years: 1
V.5)Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: no

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: no
VI.2)Additional information:
Contract Monitoring

The successful contractor's performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate. Further details on contract management can be found at http://www.dfpni.gov.uk/pgn_0112.pdf

VI.3)Procedures for appeal
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

Central Procurement Directorate
Clare House, 303 Airport Road West
BT3 9ED Belfast
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

Body responsible for mediation procedures

Central Procurement Directorate
Clare House, 303 Airport Road West
BT3 9ED Belfast
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: CPD normally incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for the minimum of 5 calender days (Part B Service), provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. No tenderers were unsuccessful in this competition.
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:
3.1.2014