1415-116a Trade Effluent Treatment Facility at Waste Recycling Centre

Islington Council invites suitable expressions of interest from suppliers for the manufacture and installation of a trade effluent treatment facility at the Islington Waste Recycling Centre.

Current status / Background

Trade effluent discharge from the facility currently does not consistently comply with statutory consents (Water Industry Act 1991) and additional treatment is required to ensure full compliance.

The requirement

Design, supply and install a suitable trade effluent treatment facility to ensure full compliance with the consent limits set by Thames Water:

The trade effluent shall not contain any of the substances listed below at a concentration expressed in milligrams per litre greater than that stated:

Settleable Solids: 1000

Chemical Oxygen Demand: 1000

Saponifiable Oil or Grease: 300

Unsaponifiable Oli or Grease: 50

Ammoniacal Nitrogen: 35

Rapidly Settleable Solids: 100

Phosphate: 8

Lots

The contract will not be split into lots.

TUPE [Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations]

Potential providers must be aware that TUPE may or may not apply to this service. Further details will be available in the invitation to tender.

Contract Period

The contract period will be for four (4) months from an estimated start date 01/03/2016.

Contract Value

The estimated total value of this contract is £200,000 over the maximum four months term of the contract.

However the Council is confident the bids received will be lower than the estimated value.

Award criteria

The contract will be awarded to the Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations. MEAT for this contract is quality 60% and cost 40%. Further details will be provided in the invitation to tender.

Cost 40%

Quality 60%, made up of:

Proposed approach to the key stages of the project from award of contract through site possession, mobilisation and practical completion stages of the contract. (20%)

Proposed approach to site management, including ensuring timely completion and consultation with building management. (20%)

Proposed approach to health and safety, ensuring a safe environment for building users to allow for continuous building use. (10%)

Proposed approach to collaboration with the design team to cover all aspects of communication on site and relaying information regarding snags or delays (10%)

Total 100%

Tenderers should be aware that we reserve the right to hold site visits and/or presentations and/or interviews during the tender process. Site visits and/or presentations and/or interviews will be for verification/clarification purposes of the written submission.

We reserve the right to interview leading bidders.

Procurement Process

This contract is over the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) threshold.

This contract will be procured using the Open Procedure. The Open Procedure means that all bidders who successfully express an interest will automatically be invited to tender and have access to the tender documents. Those who submit a tender and meet the minimum requirements will have their full tender, method statements and pricing evaluated.


Deadlines

The deadline for expressions of interest is: midday on 28/01/16

Submission of Tender documents by: midday on 29/01/16

Late submissions will not be accepted.

Additional information

Islington Council and its partners are committed to work towards a ‘Fairer Islington’, for more information see www.islington.gov.uk.

Please do not include any publicity material with your submissions.

Islington Council aims to provide equality of opportunity and welcomes applicants who meet the qualitative selection criteria from black and minority ethnic communities and disabled groups.

The Council encourages all types of organisation who meet the qualitative selection criteria including Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations, Social Enterprises or not for profit enterprises and small to medium enterprises (SME) to tender.

Your submission will be marked in stages. Only applicants who meet the requirements at each stage will progress to the next stage. Further details will be contained in the tender documents.

Please include the Contract Number 1415-116a of this tender process when communicating with the Council in any way.

All questions relating to this contract should be raised via the question and answer section of the relevant contract on the London Tenders Portal. Please do not contact any officer of the council directly.

Applicants are advised that all costs incurred either directly or indirectly in preparation, submission or otherwise related to this advertisement will be borne by them, and in no circumstances will the council be responsible for any such costs. Applicants are also advised that the council at its sole discretion acting reasonably and in good faith reserves the right to abandon the procurement at any stage prior to contract award.

As part of a commitment to transparency the council is now publishing all spend over £500 each month. This includes spend on contracts, so the successful contractor should expect details of spend against the contract to appear on the council website www.islington.gov.uk. The council is also committed to publishing tender and contract documentation after contract award stage. Commercially sensitive information will be redacted from documentation. What constitutes commercially sensitive information is a matter for the council’s sole discretion. However, tenderers will be invited to identify information they consider to be commercially sensitive in their tender return and this will be taken into account in the council forming a view.