UK-Birmingham: telecommunications services
Mobile communications and mobile-related services framework agreement. HealthTrust Europe LLP, acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust ("UHCW") wishes to establish a contract / framework agreement for mobile communications and mobile-related services. The public sector bodies to whom the use of this contract / framework agreement will be open include, in particular, the following in the United Kingdom and their respective statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisations or organisational changes, and any private sector entities having similar procurement needs. — Central Government Departments & their executive agencies (a list of such departments and executive agencies can be found at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/government-business/government-ministers- responsibilities.aspx), — Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) (a list of NDPBs can be found at Annex A to the Public Bodies Directory 2007 published by the Cabinet Office) which can be found at http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/documents/ pdf/public_bodies_2007.pdf), — National health service (NHS) bodies, including hospital Trusts, which in turn include acute Trusts, Trusts operating community hospitals and the provider functions of primary care trusts); primary care trusts and general practitioner commissioning consortia; care trusts; care trusts plus; ambulance trusts; mental health trusts; strategic health authorities; special health authorities; community health councils; local health boards; NHS foundation trusts, — Health boards, NHS trusts, Community Health Councils and other constituent bodies of the NHS in Wales, — NHS Scotland and its constituent bodies including: the Scottish ambulance service, special NHS boards and the other constituent organisations of the Scottish national health service; and — Health and social care trusts, health agencies and other constituent bodies of the NHS in Northern Ireland. Lists of all of such NHS authorities, trusts, councils, boards and other bodies can be found at: http://www.nhs.uk/. Servicedirectories/pages/primarycaretrustlisting.aspx, http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure, http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/index.aspx, and http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=hospitals; — Local authorities (as defined in Regulation 3(2) to 3(5) inclusive of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 ("the Regulations"), a list of such authorities being available at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/ Localcouncils/AToZOfLocalCouncils/DG_A-Z_LG, — Police forces and other emergency services, including fire and rescue services, the maritime and coastguard agency and other rescue authorities (a list of police authorities and fire and rescue services can be found respectively at the following: http://www.police.uk/forces.htm, and http://www.fireservice.co.uk/information/ukfrs.php, — Educational establishments (i.e. schools maintained by local authorities; academies; city technology colleges; the learning and skills council; further education establishments, and universities, — Registered social landlords (RSLs), a list of such authorities being available at: http://www.housingcorp.gov.uk/server/show/nav.489), — Registered charities, as detailed at http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/, — Devolved and other administrations within the British Isles, including those detailed at: (in the case of Scotland) http://scotland.gov.uk/Home, and http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/, (in the case of Wales) http://new.wales.gov.uk/?llang=en, — Her Majesty's prison service as detailed at www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk, — The Ministry of defence as detailed at www.mod.uk. The contract as defined in this notice will be entered into by UHCW (and the Supplier(s)) acting as a central purchasing body on behalf of the NHS and other contracting authorities as identified in Section II.1.5. HealthTrust Europe LLP has been appointed by UHCW as its agent to carry out certain procurement and logistics functions in relation to this contract. Any contracting authority wishing to access the contract may only do so with permission from HealthTrust. The contract conditions will be set out in the ITT. It is the intention to include certain contractual provisions regarding a management charge, which may be applied to purchases made under the contract awarded. Further details will be made available via the contract documentation and information released during the course of the tender process. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Internet and may be through the medium of an electronic reverse auction. Submission of expressions of interest and procurement specific information: this exercise will be conducted on the HealthTrust portal. Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest as follows: register on the HealthTrust portal at https://healthtrusteurope.bravosolution.co.uk. Login to the portal with the username/password. Click the PQQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers link. These are the PQQs/ITTs open to any registered supplier. Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content. Click the Express Interest button at the top of the page. This will move the PQQ/ITT into your My PQQs/My ITTS page. You can access any attachments by clicking Buyer Attachments (if required in III.2.1.1.ii) in the PQQ/ITT Details box. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ITT. Submit your reply using the Submit Response button at the top of the page. If you require any further advice, contact the e-Tendering help desk. CPV: 64200000, 64000000, 64212600, 64212400, 64216000, 64212200, 64216100, 64212700, 72318000, 64212000, 64212500, 64212100, 64212300. ...
FI-Oulu: treasury services
Management of an early stage asymmetric co-investment fund. 1. The City of Oulu (the "Investor") requests your quotation to select a party (the "Management Company") suitable for the establishment and management of the early stage, asymmetric, closed end, co-investment fund (the "Fund"), defined in more detail (i) in the RFQ, Appendix 1 (ii) and in the Proposed Term Sheet (the "Terms") Appendix 2; 2. The Fund will be a public-private partnership with the target size of 35 000 000 EUR and operating period of 10+2 years. The Fund may invest into early stage companies in any industry sector and the focus area of the Fund will be agreed in joint and structured strategy work by and between the Management Company and the investor, as agreed in detail in the agreement (the "Strategy Work"). The Fund shall be in the form of a limited partnership and may consist of several separate limited partnerships, as deemed appropriate by the Management Company and investors of the Fund. The Investor has the right to nominate 2 members to the supervisory board, or equivalent, of the Fund and 2 members to the investment committee, or equivalent, of the Fund; 3. The Investor has made a decision to invest 5 000 000 EUR to the Fund. EU notification that is required for the use of the funds from European Union sources, namely, European Regional Development Fund ("ERDF"), is in process. Funds received from the ERDF during the current program period (2007 – 2013), if any, shall be invested by the end of 2015 and funds received during the following program period (2014 – 2020), if any, may be invested thereafter; 4. With respect to the (i) investment of the Investor, the required ratio of public and private investments is 50/50 and (ii) funding from European Union sources, the required ratio of public and private investments is 70/30. Practicalities due to above requirements are agreed in the agreement; 5. Private investors can make investments to the Fund or directly to the target companies and they will benefit from liquidation preference defined in the terms. Target is to leverage individual business angels as well as business angel networks in the investments and operations of the Fund. Investor has already had negotiations with the private investors and possible feeder funds but the Management Company shall be responsible for closing of commenced negotiations; 6. Management Company is expected to make at least 10 new first time investments into seed and startup stage entities per year during the first time investment period of the Fund. The first time investment period is defined in the agreement. Approximately 20-40 % of the amount invested may be first time investments in seed and startup stage entities with the investment amount per investment approximately up to 500 000 EUR and approximately 60-80 % of the amount invested may be follow up investments in startup and expansion stage companies with the investment amount per investment up to 2 500 000 EUR. The investment policy of the Fund is decided and amended through the strategy work; 7. The Fund shall be located in the City of Oulu and from the beginning at least one manager of the nominated Management Company shall be permanently placed in the Oulu area and nominated management company shall commit to increase the number of local managers when the size of the Fund exceeds 15 000 000 EUR, at the latest. The managers of the Fund may be changed during the management period of the Fund, only as agreed in the agreement; 8. The annual management fee payable to the Management Company by the investor or from the investment made by the Investor shall be: (I) 300 000 EUR per year for the first two years or 2.5 % of the capital commitments given by the Investor, whichever is higher and (II) Thereafter for three following years 2.5 % of the capital commitments given by the Investor and (III) Thereafter 2.5 % of the investments made using the Investor's capital. Management fee is agreed in detail in the agreement and may vary between separate limited partnerships and investors of the Fund but, however, may not be more than 5 % of the capital commitments given by the investors of the Fund. In addition, the Management Company is entitled to the carried interest that is subject to so called Claw Back mechanism, as defined in more detail in the terms and finally agreed in the agreement; 9. The Management Company, Investor and other investors of the Fund shall enter into the management agreement and other required agreements (the "Agreement") that are based on the terms, the RFQ and standard market requirements. Requirements set forth in this RFQ and the terms are the minimum level and may be tightened up and detailed in the agreement. The agreement will define the tasks of the Management Company. The contract period starts from the signing of the agreement and stays in force for the term of the respective limited partnership. Art. 2 activities related to the incorporation and management of the Fund. 1. The activities to be carried out by the management company will consist of incorporation and management of the Fund; 2. Costs incurred by the management company due to incorporation of the Fund (administrative fees, legal fees etc.) up to 100 000 EUR at most, may be covered from the investments made to the Fund or other financing provided by the investors for such purposes. incorporation costs in excess of 100 000 EUR shall be covered from the management fee payable to the management company. In case the nominated Management Company is a manager of one or more other funds, the Management Company shall keep the Fund and other funds separate and have a separate accounting for the Fund; 3. Fund may make investments to the target companies as follows: 1. Seed financing: is the investment in the study, assessment and development phase of an innovative idea, when the technical validity of the product/service is still to be demonstrated; 2. Start up financing: is the investment aiming for starting up a company, when the commercial validity of the product/service is not yet known, but a prototype already exists; 3. Expansion financing: is the investment provided for the growth and expansion of an existing company, which may or may not break even or trade profitably, for the purposes of increasing production capacity, market or product development, or the provision of additional working capital; 4. Target companies of the Fund shall have operation in the Northern Ostrobothnia area. Target companies shall be knowledge intensive companies aiming and having potential to fast growth on international markets. Target companies may operate in any industry sector; 5. Investments of the Fund will be made in the form of subscription of shares or other equity securities or quasi-equity (mezzanine) securities (the "Shares") of new or existing, non listed and knowledge intensive companies. Investments shall be made in accordance with applicable Finnish and European Community laws, the agreement and the investment criteria of the Fund. Investment of the funds received from public sources requires that also an investment of the funds received from private sources will be made at the same conditions. A quantity of funds received from private sources is 50 % when investing the funds received from the Investor and 30 % when investing funds received from European Union sources with the pre-notified Terms. The shares subscribed within one or more investment tranches cannot exceed 49 % of the of the aggregate and fully diluted share capital of the target company and investments to one target company may not be more than 20 % of the entire capital assets of the Fund; 6. Purchases of the shares will be carried out on the basis of an evaluation carried out by the Management Company in accordance with the investment criteria of the Fund. Purchases of the shares will be executed by the Management Company, in complete autonomy, operating in strictly private terms as independent operator and in accordance with traditional market economy principles. Investment Committee shall be consulted when making the investment decisions, as agreed in the agreement. The Management Company will be also responsible for finding and selecting one or more private investors for each target company that will agree on investing into the single target company at the same conditions of the public resources of the Fund: according to this principle, private co-investors will acquire and dismiss their shares simultaneously and at the same economic conditions the public investors; 7. The Fund cannot invest in companies in difficulty in accordance with EU Directives regarding State Aid assistance for the rescue and turnaround of companies in difficulty. Art. 3 public resources. 1. Current public funds of the Fund are provided by the Investor and the investment period of such funds and related private funds shall be agreed in the agreement; 2. Additional public funds can be provided by the respective managing authority managing the ERDF or other funds from European Union sources (the "Managing Authority") and investment period of such funds and related private funds depends from the requirements applicable to such additional public funds; 3. EFRD funds received from European Union sources during the current program period (2007 - 2013), if any, shall be invested by the end of 2015; 4. The public funds indicated in paragraph 1 and the funds eventually made available in accordance with paragraph 2 must be divested within the expiring date of the agreement or in accordance with the requirements set for using the funds from European Union sources. Distributions in kind are not acceptable without separate agreement between the parties; 5. Transfer of the public funds from the investors to the Fund will be agreed in the agreement. Art. 4 private resources. 1. In order to invest the public funds mentioned above in Art. 3, the Management Company shall guarantee, deal by deal, an additional amount of funds from private investors. Funds from private investors can be: (I) Collected to the Fund and thereto invested to the target companies or (II) Directly invested to the target companies. With respect to the: (I) funds received from the Investor, the ratio of public and private funds is 50/50 and (II) ERDF funds received in accordance with the terms, the ratio of public and private funds is 70/30. 2. The ratio / percentage of the funds contributed by private investors as stipulated in the preceding paragraph shall be maintained by the Management Company even in the case of further increases in the amount of public funds invested to the Fund. Art. 5 responsibilities of the Management Company. 1. In order to execute the transfer of the funds, defined above in articles 3 and 4, the Management Company must: — Enter into the agreement with the Investor, — Accept the amendment of the agreement in case the investment of the funds from European Union sources so requires; and — Inform the Investor and the Managing Authority of any events affecting to the agreement, as amended. 2. Management Company shall send to the Investor, the Managing Authority and other investors of the Fund an annual report, which must include: — The annual accounts of the Fund, — A detailed list of the investments and exits carried out by the Fund, — Amount of employees hired by the target companies before and after the investment, — An analysis of the earnings and losses with regard to the divestment of the shares with an account of the managing expenses sustained, — Problems faced and the solutions eventually proposed and adopted; and — Any information required due to use of the funds from European Union sources or by the other investors of the Fund. 3. The Management Company must, in addition, provide the budget for the following year well in advance and keep available all documentation relative to the operations carried out in the six years following the last divestment of shares or termination of the Fund; 4. The Management Company is responsible for negotiating with private investors and target companies the terms and conditions of the investment that shall be identical for both the public and private investors and specified in the written transaction agreement. CPV: 66600000. ...
UK-Worle: architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
Knightstone Housing Association - Employer's Agent and Clerk of Works Framework Agreement. Knightstone Housing Association seeks to establish a four (4) year framework agreement (the 'Framework Agreement') to secure framework partners to provide Employer's Agent and Clerk of Works consultancy services to support the delivery of its future new homes development programme. Successful Service Providers will provide consultancy services for works contracts that are predominantly new build housing schemes but may involve refurbishment and non-residential accommodation (retail, commercial, community and environmental projects). JCT standard forms of contract, the NEC suite of contracts, bespoke development agreements and other partnering forms of contract may be used. Service contracts will be awarded under the framework agreement on the basis of the criteria set out in the Invitation to Tender documentation. The specific services required from consultants may vary according to the project (but the full range of possible services will be set out in the ITT). Service Contracts will be awarded under the framework agreement either by way of direct call off or by mini-tender. Knightstone Housing Association (and other client organisations named at Annex A) reserve the right to award a service contract to a consultant outside of the framework agreement. Service contracts called off under the framework may continue beyond the 4 year period of the framework, to coincide with completion of any particular scheme or programme of schemes, which commenced during the term of the framework agreement. As the Framework is open to other organisations, all of the organisations listed at Annex A will be entitled to use the services of the Service Providers called off from the framework agreement. CPV: 71000000, 71500000. ...
UK-Crewe: hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver
Tender Phase 1, 2012 - Local Bus Contracts. Local Bus Contracts to transport clients to various establishments in the East of Cheshire and surrounding areas. CPV: 60170000. ...
UK-Northampton: financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
Third Party Payments. Northampton Borough Council (the Council) is seeking a Company to provide a Third Party Payment service to allow the Council's customers to pay Council bills by cash at various Third Party Outlets throughout the Borough of Northampton. The Third Party Payments service will allow Northampton Borough Council customers to pay their council bills. These payments will include: — council tax, — housing rents/garages & leasehold service charge, — sundry debtors, — overpaid housing benefit, — former tenancy arrears, — sales invoices. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the myTenders Web Site at http://www.myTenders.org/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=85532. CPV: 66172000. ...
UK-London: printing services
Framework agreement for printing services. Provision of print and related print services (including though not limited to litho, web offset printing) to the Contracting Authority and authorities nominated in Annex A and other local authorities who may wish to participate in the framework agreement. CPV: 79810000, 22900000. ...
UK-Reading: repair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment
Laboratory Equipment Maintenance and Repair Services. The maintenance and repair services of commonly used laboratory equipment. There will be a maximum of 15 lots of equipment for servicing: 1. Autoclaves; 2. Fume cupboards (ducted and non-ducted); 3. Hoods; 4. Biological/ Microbiological safety cabinets ducted and non-ducted; 5. Fridges, freezers including temperature alarm systems and ice machines; 6. Cryostorage systems, pressurised Cryostorage Systems and pressure alarm systems; 7. Incubators; 8. Glasswashers; 9. Ovens and furnaces; 10. Centrifuges refrigerated and benchtop centrifuges; 11. Microcentrifuges; 12. Centrifuges floor standing; 13. Balances; 14. Vacuum pumps; 15. Water purification systems. The Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) is acting as lead organisation on behalf of its members and also for members of the Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC), Higher Education Purchasing Consortium, Wales (HEPCW), London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), the North East Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) and the North West Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC). A full list of the participating Consortia members are available on the Consortia websites www.supc.ac.uk, www.apuc-scot.ac.uk, http://hepcw.procureweb.ac.uk/, http://www.lupc.procureweb.ac.uk, http://neupc.procureweb.ac.uk/ and www.nwupc.ac.uk/. More Consortia or Institutions may be able to join on the express permission of SUPC. CPV: 50400000, 50500000, 33191000, 50433000. ...
FI-Espoo: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Electricity network video and laser inspections by helicopter. The scope of this project is the acquisition of the images and classified laser cloud data of the whole electricity network and its surroundings and an application capable of handling the data. The application and the data will be used mainly to make inspections and for planning tree clearing projects. The area that is planned to be covered by this project is about 21 000 - 24 000 km in Finland which is the main focus area. Whole Electricity network must be covered by this data collection project by helicopter between 1.6.2012-30.9.2012: — the delivered data must be usable for official electrical network inspections, — the laser point cloud data must be classed for example terrain, poles, electrical lines, vegetation and roads as whole, — picture quality should allow network detail analyse nearly from all angles and pictures should be taken bright and clear conditions, — the application must contain features for collision analyses for the whole network, — the application must contain ready pre-defined collision analyses and must be capable for doing own analyses, — the applications must be able to be used through CITRIX server, — supplier should give user support, solve errors and deliver maintenance releases according mutual agreed Service Level Agreement, — the application must be usable for at least 6 years and the supplier must provide maintenance and services for the application for at least 6 years, — the supplier must give reasonable training for Fortum key users in using the program, — the supplier must have an fully operational application for Fortum for demonstration purposes. Fortum regards the demonstration as one of evaluation criterion, — fortum keeps the right to terminate the contract if the supplier doesn't meet the quality or schedule criteria, — the offer price must contain all costs related to the all operative cost of data acquisition and all application costs, — fortum demands a solid reference list from the supplier and uses it as one of evaluation criterion, — data delivery should be fluent one going process during data acquisition, — supplier should have knowledge and capabilities to make network analysis based on Fortum's requirements. CPV: 72000000, 60440000. ...
SE-Stockholm: radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
Radio and telephony communication integration for operation centre. Fortum Distribution AB, unit Network Operation, needs to improve the existing voice communication system for the Network Operation Center. The system solution shall be integrated to the public service telephony network and the Rakel Network (Tetra) and the system shall be buildup around Fortum existing telephony solution based on Aastra MX-One. The System solution shall be installed and operated in a redundant environment at the Operations Centre in Karlstad, Sweden. After performed improvements the system shall provide modern, reliable and redundant functionality for Fortum operators communicating with external field resources. Function examples essential for operation are: — common telephony, radio and messaging queue system, — possible for operator to answer calls in queues independent from incoming order, — identify field resources and update external resource databases by using incoming call/message related data, — standard interface for system integration distributing operational data, such as status and positioning data, — all daily used functions and graphical user interfaces should be run from one user application. CPV: 32000000, 32522000, 32570000, 45314000. ...
IRL-Dublin: brake equipment
Supply of rail vehicle brake discs & crowns. Iarnrod Eireann (IE) are seeking to establish a 3 year supply contract for the supply of brake discs and crowns for rail vehicles. Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders web site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=388592. CPV: 34322100, 34322000, 34600000, 34630000, 34946120. ...
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