CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Supply of Network Cabling for Voice and Data (Copper, Fibre ) and associated installation work.

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

Purchase		Rent		Lease
Hire-purchase		Combination of these

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Cardiff

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Cardiff University is seeking to establish a framework agreement with three suppliers for the provision of Network and Telephony Infrastructure cabling. The requirement is for companies to provide and install network cabling (copper and fibre) and telephony copper cabling, associated passive equipment and is also for the supply of equipment as defined by Cardiff University’s Network and Telephony Standards.

Suppliers are invited to tender for:

- The supply of cabling & equipment for the installation and associated configuration to support the expansion and day to day operation of the Data Network Infrastructure.

- The supply of cabling & equipment for the installation, civil works and associated configuration to support the expansion and day to day operation of the Voice Network Infrastructure.

- The supply of fibre cabling & equipment for the installation, civil works and associated configuration to support the expansion and day to day operation of the Fibre Network Infrastructure.

- Project Management and services required to deploy and support the deployment/expansion of Fibre Optic cabling across the University’s Campus including fibre provisioning.

- Fibre installation can be single mode or multimode fibre and includes inter building deployment and intra building deployment across the University estate. Both traditional, and Blown Fibre solutions installations would be required depending on project requirements.

- Civil works necessary to support inter building fibre deployments – including the negotiation and provision of any necessary civil works permits/street works licenses

- Account management for the duration of the project.

- Suppliers must provide documentation updates these includes test results, work logs, project reports, onsite update of the AutoCAD documentation held by the University.

Suppliers are reqested to register and express an interest in the tender on the following website:

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cardiffuniversity/aspx/Home

Please refrain from requesting tender documents from the contracting authority, as they are available from the above web portal.

The initial contract period will be 2 years from 1st September 2014 - 31st August 2016 with an option to extend for a further 2 x 12 month periods.

II.1.5)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s)

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

CU189/GHP

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

Title:

Lot No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

Additional Information

(WA Ref:16660)

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

Cardiff university incorporated a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract was communicated to tenderers. That notification provided full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which was for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provided time for unsuccessful tenderers to clarify or query the award decision before the contract was entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) / Utilities Contracts Regulations (SI 2005 No 6) (delete as appropriate) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

VI.3.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice