Published date: 3 October 2018

Last edited date: 3 October 2018

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.


Closing: 3 December 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Insurance services - 66510000

Location of contract

SG17 5TQ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

CBC-0928-T-KH

Published date

3 October 2018

Closing date

3 December 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2022

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Central Bedfordshire Council are looking to procure coverage for its insurance requirements effective April 2019.

The process is being run under the Open Procedure and is split into Lots defining packaged risk classes.

Please note that Applicants will be able to tender for All or Any number of Lots but where multiple Lots are quoted,no individual Lot should be held conditional on being awarded a further Lot.

All bidder will be subject to passing the selection critria as defined within the contract documentation.

Conditions of Participation - Ultimate Insurance Capacity must be placed with Insurance companies licensed to underwrite insurance within the UK and registered with the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority as appropriate. Any brokers subitting bids under MGA models or similar must also be registered with the Financial Conduct authority (FCA).

Financial Criteria - A Standard & Poor Credit Rating (or equivalent) must be held of at least A- for Insurance Companies.

Completed Tenders and attachments should be submitted electronically, by the due date via our \"In-tend\" electronic tendering system. Tenders must be uploaded via the \"My Return\" section of the system. Tenders submitted through the correspondence facility will not be considered.

Your Tender must be submitted via the In-tend system by no later than 17:00 on 03/12/2018. Tenders received after that time will be excluded.

Help and Support - The Council will provide as much support and information as it can to help guide you through the Tender process. Questions asked together with the response, will be made available to all tenderers to ensure a fair and consistent approach to all.

If there is anything you are not sure of or need clarification on, please send a correspondence using the 'In-tend' portal tendering system

More information

Links

Additional text

Prospective contractors must be able to demonstrate previous experience of similar work and be prepared to provide references.
Applications are welcome from single organisations or consortia from the public, private and voluntary/community sector
To express an interest, please log in or register on our electronic tendering system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/centralbedfordshire in order to view the necessary tendering documents and respond accordingly.
Please note that once you have registered on In-tend a separate action (expressing an Interest) is required to access the documents, you must click on the actual Tender you wish to access. We accept no liability if you have not expressed an interest in the tender.


Conditions of Participation - Ultimate Insurance Capacity must be placed with Insurance companies licensed to underwrite insurance within the UK and registered with the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority as appropriate. Any brokers subitting bids under MGA models or similar must also be registered with the Financial Conduct authority (FCA).


Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

ADMINISTRATOR ADMINISTRATOR

Address

Priory House
Chicksands
Bedfordshire
SG17 5TQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

03003008000

Email

procurement@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk