Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-04-30
Buyer: Transport Scotland South West
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45221000: Engineering works for bridges and tunnels | 45221111 | 45221115 | 45442120 | 45442121
Estimated value: 17890900 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Transport Scotland wishes to appoint a suitably experienced main contractor to undertake 4 phases of maintenance painting on the external substrates of Erskine Bridge. A single contract will be let with a single contractor responsible for the delivery of all 4 phases of work.
Transport Scotland is an agency of the Scottish Government and contracts in the name of and on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. Transport Scotland has identified the requirement to appoint a main contractor to undertake the external painting of the Erskine Bridge. These works are due to commence in spring 2019, for a period of approximately 4 years. The phasing is described below. The main contractor will be procured through a competitive tender procedure, in accordance with the restricted procedure as stated in the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Due to project complexity, the project will be performed by a single contractor and as such shall not be divided into lots. To be considered for this contract economic operators are required to complete the European Single Procurement Document ESPD in accordance with this Contract Notice. Economic operators shall be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, on the basis of information they have provided within the ESPD.
It is the intention that the project will operate a mandatory Project Bank Account (PBA), a project specific account ring fenced with effective Trust status, for payment of the contractor and his supply chain. The account shall be opened by the Scottish Ministers with The Royal Bank of Scotland under the banking services framework defined at
It is intended that the PBA shall satisfy the minimum requirements for an effectively constituted Trust under Scots law. The use of a PBA by a contractor shall be a contractual requirement. Any sub-contractors for which it is agreed shall not be paid through the PBA shall be entitled to payment according to the prompt payment provisions provided within the contract.
There are 4 phases of work. The contract will include a phased completion mechanism. There will be scope for evaluation of the contractor’s performance during each phase of the works.
The scope of the works for all phases comprises provision of temporary access systems; removal of the existing paint system; survey and inspection the condition of the existing steelwork; steelwork repairs and strengthening; installation of a new multi-coat paint system in accordance with the specification for highway works.
The works will also include the refurbishment of the east and west footway panels and removal of redundant gas mains on the east and west cantilever sections.
Phase 1 (spring 2019 — autumn 2019) — West Side Cantilever: Works will include the removal of the west side redundant SGN Gas pipe; removal, refurbishment and reinstatement of the footway panels.
Phase 2 (spring 2020 – autumn 2020) – East Side Cantilever: Identical to Phase 1 but applied to the East side including the East side gas main removal and footway panel refurbishment.
Phase 3 (spring 2021 – autumn 2021) Lower Sloping Web and Bottom Flange. This phase will include steelwork repairs to the backing flats on the web and bottom flange areas.
Phase 4 (spring 2022 – Autumn 2022) – The Bridge Towers: Specialist temporary access systems and traffic management will be required to paint the towers. The contract will only permit continual peak time traffic management when painting the lowest 6 metres of the bridge towers in the central reserve. Special temporary access systems, which can be erected and maintained using off peak traffic management, will be required for all areas above 6 metres high.
The works will be let using a fixed price with milestone payments and lane occupation charges contract. The contract will be strongly incentivised to encourage contractors to minimise the amount of disruptive traffic management. TM will not be permitted during the day Monday to Friday. The only exception is in Phase 4 where continual peak time traffic management will be permitted to allow painting of the lowest 6 metres of the bridge towers.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Transport Scotland will conduct the proposed procurement process for the contract on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. In the event of the conclusion of the contract, the contract will be entered into between the Scottish Ministers and the successful tenderer. The contract terms and conditions will be based on ICE Conditions of Contract 5th Edition, with bespoke amendments. Each selected economic operator shall be invited to submit a tender on the same contract terms.
Each economic operator shall submit four paper copies (one marked "Original" and 3 marked copy 1, 2, or 3 as relevant) together with two USB data sticks containing the completed ESPD, in a sealed package to arrive by no later than 12:00 noon BST/GMT on 31.7.2018 to the following addressee and address:


Winner: Spencer
Award value: 17890900
Number of bids: 3