Lier municipality, hereafter known as the Contracting Authority, extends an invitation to open tender competition in regard to hire wash of linen and washing of self owned occupational textiles for activities in the care services. Wash of residents' textiles is not included in the competition.
Lier municipality currently operates the laundry of their own account, but the laundry is winding down washing of linen and personal textiles as the municipality shall purchase washing services to ensure professional quality and environmental processing of these textile categories.
The Contracting Authority's organisation number is 857566122.
Laundry services will be procured for 7 agencies in the care sector of Lier municipality. The rehabilitation agencies, Nøstehagen Residential and Care Centre, Liertun Nursing Home and housing unit, Frogner Nursing Home, Bratromveien/Frogner shared housing, Øvre Lier home services and Ytre Lier home services. The municipality owns it's own occupational textiles. The framework agreement shall cover the municipality's need for services associated with hire wash of linen for 4 agencies, and washing of the municipality's own occupational textiles for all of the named agencies. See attachment 2 — information about the agencies, delivery addresses and contacts.
Relevant textile categories:
Linen: such as duvet covers, pillowcases, sheets, flat sheets, fitted sheets, bed slide sheets, bedspreads, blankets, night shirts/outfits, cloth sacks, underwear, kitchen cloths, tea towels, oven mitts/oven gloves, terry cloth towels, wash cloths, bibs, synthetic duvets and pillows and tablecloths/place-mats in various sizes. There may occasionally be other types of textiles, for example sails for personal lifts, aids etc. The list is not exhaustive.
Occupation textiles: Work attire for staff including nursing staff, doctors, kitchen, canteen and cook. All of the institutions own their own occupational textiles.
Private textiles/resident textiles: All private textiles for residents can be washed at 30, 40, 60 and 90 degrees C. This is only appropriate when resident textiles are accidentally sent to the supplier.
Lier municipality will purchase hire wash of linen, that means that the municipality wishes to hire textiles and purchase the washing of these items. The municipality has a framework agreement for the purchase of occupation textiles until and including the 28.11.2015, whereby the municipality owns it's own occupational textiles and wishes to purchase washing services for these. Wherein the framework agreement for purchase of occupational textiles expires, the municipality will evaluate purchase of hire wash also for this textile category. This is the basis for the framework agreement Lien municipality wishes to enter into for the period from 5.5.2014 to and including 28.11.2015.
Lier municipality washes resident textiles of their own account.
Products to be washed are listed in the Price Lists, Attachment 3 — Wash of occupational textiles and Attachment 4 - hire wash of linen.
In the circumstances that private textiles are accidentally sent to the laundry, it should be washed before it is returned. The competition includes tablecloths, but not washing of other interior textiles, for example throw pillows. The Contracting Authority owns their own curtains, and shall purchase washing of these. Price is to be given per metre, see Attachment 3 — Wash of occupational textiles.
The service also includes transport and delivery to the Contracting Authority's service centres. Tenderer must familiarise themselves with the delivery locations and times stipulated by this competition. The delivery addresses can be found in Attachment 2 — Information on the agencies, delivery addresses and contact persons.
Yearly volume and specification of hire wash of linen and wash of occupational textiles is stated in the attached price list and is estimated from statistics and accounting figures for procurement of equivalent products for the same purchasing group from previous years, as well as future budget. The volume must therefore be considered an estimate and not binding.
Other information about the procurement can be found in Attachment 5 — minimum requirement for textiles.
The competition is for framework agreement in Lier municipality, hereafter called the Contracting Authority.
The value of the procurement is estimated at: NOK 3 500 000 excluding VAT. including hire of linen. This is an estimate for 2 years.
If during the contractual period the Contracting Authority separates part of the operation to it's own legal entities (for example, such as, foundations/trusts etc.) they shall have the option to connect to the signed contract.
Section V: Award of contract
Lot title: Purchase of Laundry services
V.1) Date of contract award decision:
1.5.2014
V.2) Information about offers
Number of offers received by electronic means: 3
V.3) Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken
Rentx AS, St. Hansveien 10, 3614 Kongberg, NORWAY