Find a TenderCancelled
Published 7 Mar 2024, 13:44 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

3D Metal Printer Lease · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: University of Southampton (Charity / VCSE)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

GoodsOpen procedure
Published estimate£500,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 12 Apr 2024

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The School of Engineering wants to lease a 3D Metal Printer for a fixed term of 3 years with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years.

The metal printer will support world-leading research utilising new materials and printing methods and extend the capability of the 2D and 3D printing currently undertaken within the School.

Applications for metal printing can be found in aerospace, defence, automotive, healthcare, and many other industries and will lead to revolutionary new medical, electronic, mechanical, optical, acoustic, heat transfer, and sensing devices being designed and manufactured.

This is due to the many advantages, including design flexibility, product customisation, and minimisation of material waste, that printing offers over subtractive manufacturing.

The use of Additive Manufacturing (AM) means that geometrics are no longer constrained to the limited base stock that components are traditionally machined from.

CPV: Electrical equipment and apparatus · Metal-working machine tools · Printers and plotters

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1CancelledPublished value£500,000
Delivery: South East · Southampton, Hampshire, England
Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 65%Price: 35%
Published sub-criteria (10)
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 2 - Material Requirements: 10%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 3 - Training Requirements: 5%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 4 - Software Requirements: 5%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 5 - Delivery and Installation Requirements: 10%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 6 - Warranty and Maintenance Requirements: 5%
  • Desirable Technical - Section 1 - Material Requirements: 15%
  • Desirable Technical - Section 3 - Training Requirements: 5%
  • Desirable Technical - Section 6 - Warranty and Maintenance Requirements: 5%
  • Desirable Technical - Section 7 - Aftersales Support Requirements: 5%
  • price: 35%
Published award criteria (13)
  • Mandatory Technical Requirements: Pass / Fail
  • Highly Desirable Technical Requirements: Overall Weighting 35%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 2 - Material Requirements: 10%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 3 - Training Requirements: 5%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 4 - Software Requirements: 5%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 5 - Delivery and Installation Requirements: 10%
  • Highly Desirable Technical - Section 6 - Warranty and Maintenance Requirements: 5%
  • Desirable Technical Requirements: Overall Weighting 30%
  • Desirable Technical - Section 1 - Material Requirements: 15%
  • Desirable Technical - Section 3 - Training Requirements: 5%
  • Desirable Technical - Section 6 - Warranty and Maintenance Requirements: 5%
  • Desirable Technical - Section 7 - Aftersales Support Requirements: 5%
  • Price: 35%
Conditions of participation2
  • Economic & financial standing

    To support the financial assessment, the University will obtain a Business Risk Report for all Tenderers and every organisation that is being relied on to meet this procurement, using an independent company called Creditsafe.

    The University reserves the right to exclude a Tenderer or request provision of further assurances such as parent company/bank guarantee or performance bonds where a Tenderer's Business Risk Score is: "Moderate Risk"; "High Risk"; "Very High Risk"; or "Not Rated", based on the rating provided by Creditsafe.

    Where a Business Risk Score from our external system is not available, then an alternative method of assessing financial standing will be used.

    This method is detailed within the Invitation to Tender document set.

    Minimum: Tenderers are advised that a requirement of this procurement is to have in place, or commit to obtain prior to the commencement of the contract, the following minimum insurance levels: Employers (Compulsory) Liability: £5 million GBP per occurrence. Public Liability: £5 million G…
  • Technical & professional ability

    Tenderers attention is drawn to the MANDATORY requirements of the award criteria:

    Grounds for mandatory exclusion

    • Mandatory technical requirements M1 to M8
    • Failure to meet the minimum required score for Highly Desirable technical requirements H1 to H7

    Grounds for discretionary exclusion

    -Economic & Financial Standing

    -Insurance

    -Compliance with equality legislation

    -Health & Safety

    -Legal requirements

    -Control of Contractors Health & Safety (CC3) Form

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 35 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Cancelled
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
7 Mar 2024, 13:44 GMT
Last source update
21 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST
Award evaluation window
12 Apr 2024 – …
Authority reference
2023UoS-0808
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-026708
Classification (CPV)
Electrical equipment and apparatusMetal-working machine toolsPrinters and plotters
Delivery area
South East (UKJ32)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044663 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment

Publisher note: E-Tendering Portal: The University is utilising an electronic tendering tool, In-Tend (https://intendhost.co.uk/ universityofsouthampton) to manage this procurement and to communicate with potential suppliers and/or tenderers (as appropriate). All documentation in relation to this tender can be downloaded from In-Tend. Tenderers are advised that there will be no hard copy documents issued and all communications with the University, including the submission of Selection Stage and/or Invitation to Tender responses will be conducted via In-Tend. Regular monitoring of the portal is the responsibility of the tenderer. If you are not already registered as a supplier with the University of Southampton, you will need to register in In-Tend in order to access the procurement documentation. Once you have logged in as a supplier: click on 'Tenders'; locate the relevant project; and click 'View Details'. Once you are in the project screen, you will be able to register your organisation against the project and access all documentation by clicking 'Express Interest'. Potential suppliers/tenderers are advised that formal expressions of interest in the project must be by way of completion and return of the relevant documents via In-Tend. Further instructions for the submission of responses are below: To submit your return: 1. Log in 2. Click 'Tenders' 3. Locate the relevant project 4. View details 5. Click on the tab relating to the relevant project stage (e.g. 'Invitation to Tender') 6. Click on the 'Attach Documents' button and upload your return. 7. Check ALL your response documents are uploaded and displayed in the 'My Tender Return' panel. The system will only permit your organisation to make one return. 8. Click the red 'Submit Return' button. Please note, to preserve the integrity of the procurement, all communications with the University must be made via the correspondence function within In-Tend. Publication of Award Details: In accordance with Regulation 50, paragraph (2) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the University intends to publish the value of any resulting contract at the award stage, and reserves the right to do so. By submitting a response, tenderers are consenting to publication of this information unless otherwise agreed in advance with the University. Costs and Expenses: Tenderers are solely responsible for their costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation and submission of responses and participation in this and all future stages of this procurement. Under no circumstances will the University be liable for any costs or expenses borne by tenderers or any of their supply chain, partners or advisers in this procurement process. The University is not liable for any costs in the event of the cancellation of this procurement process.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: In-tend · Who buys & how to bid on In-tend
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · one account per buying organisation's portal · reCAPTCHA on signup
Submission deadline
12 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
120 days from the deadline
Bids opened
12 Apr 2024, 12:01 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

12 Apr 2024 → 21 Aug 2024 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    12 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    12 Apr 2024, 12:01 BST
  3. Notice published
    21 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Aug 2024
  1. Status changed to unsuccessful
    21 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST
  2. Buyer details updated
    21 Aug 2024, 15:30 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1

1 further award records carry no date or value.

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Contracting authorityCharity / VCSEBody governed by public lawEducation GB-UKPRN: 100007158 · GB-UKPRN: 10007185 HIGHFIELD CAMPUS,UNIVERSITY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, South East, SO171BJContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.