Notice Information
Notice Title
** Contract Award Notice** Contract for Stray Dog Services
Notice Description
Southend-on-Sea City Council have appointed a Contractor to provision the Council's Stray Dog Service (the Service). The Service includes, but will not be limited to, the collection of stray dogs from within Council areas, providing of kennelling, reuniting dogs with their owners, collection of fees from reclaiming owners (on behalf of the Council) and the rehoming of dogs.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Southend-on-Sea City Council have appointed a Contractor to provision the Council's Stray Dog Service (the Service). The Service includes, but will not be limited to, the collection of stray dogs from within Council areas, providing of kennelling, reuniting dogs with their owners, collection of fees from reclaiming owners (on behalf of the Council) and the rehoming of dogs. This was carried out using the negotiated procedure without prior publication.
Procurement Information
The market in this instance has one viable operational contender. This is Acres Way, they are the incumbent provider and have been for many years. We had hoped a 2nd organisation may have thrown their hat into the ring during the recent procurement process (Issued 07/08/2023 (DN677292)). However, this did not happen. The only organisation who expressed an interest in the procurement process was the incumbent. The costs per annum which were recorded in the related approvals for DN677292 were estimated at PS30K. Unfortunately, the pricing returned as part of DN677292 was substantially higher than was expected. The Tenderer's commercial response for the running of the service, per annum, was estimated to total between PS60K to PS64K. This considerably higher annual figure, changed the level of advertising and admin required for a compliant procurement process. Specifically, the higher annual cost was in excess of the Find a Tender (FTS)Threshold. As a result, DN677292 was withdrawn. A PIN (Publication reference: 2023/S 000-036549) and the equivalent notice on Contracts Finder (CF) were issued confirming the running of a market engagement. The market engagement notices confirmed to the market the withdrawal of DN677292 and the reason why. Crucially, the market engagement notices also estimated the revised contract value for any procurement process going forward as PS300K+. This was confirmed in the accompanying documents, but clearly stated in the notices as well, to ensure the market were fully informed as to the situation. The market was advised in both notices (FTS and CF) of the importance of registering an interest in the market engagement. In particular "...the information received in response to this notice will be key in assisting the Council to evaluate its options in regard this future procurement process, and the procedure to be used." The notices also confirmed, "Significant information relating to the nature and requirements of the withdrawn procurement process, and the required Service, are available via the Council's electronic tendering facility (ETF)." This included the Specification, Technical Questionnaire and Commercial Questionnaire from the withdrawn procurement. The means by which an interested party could take part in the market engagement was as simple as confirming the address of their website. Despite all of this we received no interest from the market. This supports the market intelligence which has been the cornerstone of our work on the Stray Dogs Services contract for many years. Namely, due to technical or geographical reasons, there are no other parties, other than the incumbent, who are able to undertake a contract such as ours in the area. This was further supported by the incumbent being the only company to register an interest in DN677292. Due to the openness and transparency in ensuring the market are fully informed and enabled, but still only receiving interest from one organisation, in response to 3 different notices, the most efficient and effective compliant means of procurement was determined to be justifiably evidenced as the use of Regulation 32 (Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication).
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-046dfe
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/017601-2024
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
98 - Other community, social and personal services
-
- CPV Codes
98380000 - Dog kennel services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £320,000 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 6 Jun 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 23 Apr 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- SOUTHEND-ON-SEA CITY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
- Postcode
- SS2 6ER
- Post Town
- Southend-on-Sea
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH3 Essex
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH31 Southend-on-Sea
- Delivery Location
- TLH31 Southend-on-Sea
-
- Local Authority
- Southend-on-Sea
- Electoral Ward
- Victoria
- Westminster Constituency
- Southend East and Rochford
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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