Auction services

Tender description

Border Force is a Directorate of the Home Office. Border Force intends to establish a contracting vehicle for the provision of services for the sale of seized goods and vehicles. The contracting provision will be enabled for use to all Home Office Directorates, other Government Departments and Agencies but specifically HM Revenue and Customs and the National Crime Agency. The following is an indication to the services required: — The haulage of seized goods from the Authority's point of storage (South Yorkshire area) to the Supplier's place of disposal (sale); — The haulage of seized vehicles from the Authority's point of storage (Dover area) to the Suppliers place of disposal (sale or end of life destruction). Scope — The following goods are expected to be within the scope of this service provision: — Cars; — Light commercial vehicles; — Heavy Goods Vehicles; — Plant; — Coaches: — Caravans vehicles, HGV, plant, coaches, caravans, boats and aircraft; — Boats; — Aircraft; — Items used to aid illicit entry in to the UK i.e. cover loads; — Jewellery — Fine art — Electrical items. Other requirements. Border Force requires its Supplier to adhere to the following: — Full audit trail of its compliance with all relevant regulatory and legislative requirements governing these activities; — Maintenance of detailed records of activity and the production of management information, and making these records available to Border Force; — Transparency and open book arrangements in relation to costs and invoices; — Compliance with all Home Office security standards where appropriate; — Single point of contact by telephone for requesting services, during normal working hours.