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

Support Package for the Growth & Embedding of Time Banking in Carmarthenshire

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

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

Carmarthenshire

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

In Time Banking people receive a paper token as a thank you for contributing time to their community or service. They can then “spend” the time banking token to access events, training and leisure activities, or to thank others in turn.

Carmarthenshire County Council (both Housing Services Division and Communities First) has been working with Spice Innovations Ltd over the past two years to develop a Time Banking programme that now has over 660 members. Participants have been aged between 3 and 97 years. These individuals have given over 20,500 hours back to their community through the scheme through a network of 70 organisations. To date this programme has been funded by INTEREG IVB North-West Europe Programme and the RDP, but these funding schemes finish the end of January 2015.

The programme has seen marked achievements in enabling communities to meet their own needs and to impose outcomes for local people in times of austerity. Embedding the scheme further within services and expanding the geographical reach of the Time Banking Network will enable Carmarthenshire County Council to meet its strategic objectives to develop sustainable and safe communities, in which people fulfil their learning potential and are healthy and prosperous.

The next stage of Time Banking in Carmarthenshire will see Time Banking successfully embedded into Communities First and Carmarthenshire Housing Services to ensure the sustainability of the programme in years to come.

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

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract 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:35681)

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

This authority will 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 a minimum of 10 calender days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challege the award decision before the contract is entered into The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No5) provide for aggrieved parties wo 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