Published date: 14 December 2020
Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.
Contract summary
Industry
Provision of services to the community - 75200000
Location of contract
EC2P 2EJ
Value of contract
£695,453
Procurement reference
tender_259789/911144
Published date
14 December 2020
Closing date
20 January 2021
Closing time
12am
Contract start date
1 April 2021
Contract end date
31 March 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The City of London Corporation (the City) invites Tenders for the provision of a Street Ambassador Service for the Cheapside Business Alliance (CBA) and the Aldgate Connect Business Improvement Districts
The duration of the contract is for a 4-year term from 1 April 2021 until 31 March 2025.
The services to be procured from the proposed contract are classified under Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as "Provision of services to the community"
Therefore, the services advertised in the Official Journal of the European (OJEU) contract notice fall among those listed in Annex XIV to Directive 2014/24/EU and the full obligations set out in that directive do not apply. For the avoidance of doubt, the contract is to be procured in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Regulations 74 to 78, more commonly known as the Light Touch Regime. The precise procurement process to be used is as described in the procurement documents.
The procurement is being run as a one stage process, resembling the open procedure and its main features - which includes the core elements of the Standard Selection Questionnaire (SQ). Any organisation that considers itself able to meet the requirements of the selection criteria within the Qualification Envelope is invited to submit a tender.
The description of the Street Ambassador Service is set out in the procurement documents, particularly the specification - available from: https://www.capitalesourcing.com.
Please read document 'ITT' - which contains the instructions for the tender.
The duration of the contract is four (4) years and organisations should note that the maximum budget for this service for the duration of the contract term will be up to 695,453 GBP.
More information
Links
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- www.capitalesourcing.com
- Tender notice
- Tender documents located at:
Additional text
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This procurement process is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system 'Capital eSourcing' (url: www.capitalesourcing.com). Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.
This is a one stage procurement process; therefore, suppliers will need to register an interest on the system and submit a Tender submission no later than 12:00 on 20.01.2021 in order to participate and registration is free. Tender submissions cannot be uploaded after the return deadline.
The contracting authority reserves the right at any time to vary the timescales in this notice, cease the procurement process and not award the contract or to award only part of the opportunity described in this notice. If the contracting authority takes up any of these rights then it will not be responsible for, or pay the expenses or losses, which may be incurred by any candidate or tenderer as a result. Economic operators are solely responsible for their costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation of their Tender submissions and all stages throughout the procurement. Under no circumstances will the contracting authority be liable for costs or expense borne by the economic operators.
The proposed contract opportunity is a single identifiable service which would offer no commercial or operational benefits if it was divided into Lots.
Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the Capital e-Sourcing system.
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