UKRI FM18115 Cleaning Services at MRC Harwell

The final date and time for the submission of bids is Tuesday 21st August 2018 at 11:00

DO NOT apply directly to the buyer.

All tender information MUST be submitted through the CCS eSourcing Portal.

Cleaning service contract Specification.

The awarded contractor is required to deliver a cleaning service in line with the provided specification and will beresponsible for monitoring the provision of the services on a daily basis. The specification requires the provisionof a person for daily point of contact and also an onsite supervisor.

For the whole of the contract, routine and supply of labour cleaning (SOL), all cleaning materials will be sourced by the contractor (paid for by the Medical Research Council) and approved by the MRC Contract Manager(MCM) Equipment will be purchased by the Medical Research Council (MRC) who will be responsible for its maintenance including portable appliance testing. All equipment is currently leased from the incumbent supplier.

UK SBS is managing this procurement process in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015(as may be amended from time to time) (the "Regulations").

Cleaning shall be carried out Monday to Friday between 05.00 and 15.00 hrs. Special clean times negotiable dependant on business needs.

The site consists of two main buildings: Mary Lyon Centre & 383 plus a Security Lodge and three much smaller buildings, two of which are moth balled and one only part occupied, shown in appendix D.

Given the nature of this requirement and the site upon which any successful supplier would be working, we are highly recommending that any interested supplier takes up the opportunity to tour site during the tender timescales.

Please Note; you will be required to complete and return the Non-Disclosure Agreement in order to be able to gain access to Appendix B - Harwell Cleaning Specification and Appendix C - TUPE data. This can be done via the messaging function in Emptoris

Additional information: DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO BUYER

All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (Threshold amounts)

Responses must be received by the date in the tender documentation; responses received outside of the deadline or not sent via the eSourcing portal will not be accepted or considered further for this opportunity.

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This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria set out in the RFP document.

Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation "to apply directly to the buyer" as this unfortunately a system generated error, that is outside of the Contracting Authorities control.