Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-09-28
Buyer: Scotland Excel
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-10-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This framework will provide a mechanism for local authorities and associate members to provide bespoke in-home energy advice to householders within their catchment area.
The service will include but is not limited to providing advocacy advice with utility providers, ensuring metering issues are dealt with, ensure householders have an understanding of optimum heating regimes and householders are on the best tariff with utility providers.
Various locations throughout the geographical boundaries of participating local authorities and associate members within Scotland.
This framework will provide a mechanism for local authorities and associate members to provide bespoke in-home energy advice to householders within their catchment area. The service will include but is not limited to providing advocacy advice with utility providers, ensuring metering issues are dealt with, ensure householders have an understanding of optimum heating regimes and householders are on the best tariff with utility providers.
The framework will be awarded on a geographical basis, with the tenderer bidding for local authority areas which are referred to as “Geographical Lots”. Each of these lots will represent the entire authority area.
The framework agreement will run for an initial 36 months period with the option to extend for up to an additional 12 months period.
Economic operators may be excluded from the competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the public contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Please see the invitation to tender contained on the PCS-Tender Documents for further information.
In accordance with Regulation 59(12), as this proposed framework agreement is divided into lots, these economic and financial standing selection criteria apply separately in relation to each individual geographical lot.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, all types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Employer's (compulsory) liability insurance — maintain a minimum indemnity limit of  10 000 000 GDP in respect of each claim and without limit to the number of claims.
Public/product liability insurance — maintain a minimum indemnity limit of 2 000 000 GDP in respect of each claim (for public liability) and without limit to the number of claims (in the aggregate for products liability).
Professional indemnity insurance — maintain a minimum indemnity limit of 1 000 000 GDP in respect of each claim (for professional Indemnity) and without limit to the number of claims (in the aggregate for professional indemnity).
Motor Vehicle Insurance — maintain a minimum indemnity limit of 2 000 000 GDP in respect of each claim and without limit to the number of claims for property damage, and unlimited for 3
For bidders who will subcontract parts of the business, the bidder should provide a letter signed by a person of appropriate authority confirming that the bidder has ongoing arrangements in place to ensure that subcontractors' vehicles are appropriately insured and maintained.
A search of the bidder against Equifax's Protect must not return a “Warning” or “Caution” returnable code or any neutral code, unless the bidder confirms that it can provide any other document which Scotland Excel considers appropriate to prove to Scotland Excel (acting within its permitted discretion under the applicable public procurement rules) that the bidder does/would not represent an unmanageable risk should it be appointed on to the proposed framework agreement.


Award value: 4000000