Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-03-11
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 32424000 | 32552120 | 32573000 | 34923000 | 34924000
Estimated value: 70000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-04-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The scope of the contract comprises compliance with and delivery of all responsibilities, services and works activities as described:
Lot 1: Operations is for the delivery of the Traffic Scotland National Control Centre (and back up facility as may be required). This involves the use of multiple data streams and information sources to pro-actively monitor and support the safe, efficient and resilient operation of the trunk road network, by providing real time traffic and travel information to the public and stakeholders through a wide variety of communication channels.
Lot 2: Infrastructure is for the maintenance of existing and construction of new or replacement Traffic Scotland equipment generally comprising of all intelligent transport systems related equipment, transmission buildings located on the road network including all Scottish Trunk Roads and part of the non-trunk road, associated communications equipment, computers and operator workstations operated, maintained and developed in the provision of the Traffic Scotland Service.
Economic operators can tender for one (1) or both lots, however a maximum of one (1) lot will be awarded to an economic operator.
Where a successful economic operator has submitted a final tender for both lots and their aggregated quality and price score result in them being the most economically advantageous tenderer in both lots, they shall be awarded the lot in which they have attained the greatest difference between their aggregated quality and price score (measured to two decimal places) and the second placed tenderer’s aggregated quality and price score (measured to two decimal places). Where there is no such difference, they shall be awarded the lot with the greatest difference between their price score and the second placed tenderer’s price score.
The remaining lot shall be awarded to the second placed economic operator for that lot. In the event that there is more than one compliant final tender submission with the same aggregated quality and price score in second place in the remaining lot, the economic operator with the lowest price shall be awarded the remaining lot.
Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Ministers has identified the requirement to appoint two (2) suitably experienced Economic Operators to deliver the Traffic Scotland Operations and Infrastructure Services Contract split into:
Economic operators can tender for one (1) or both Lots, however a maximum of one (1) Lot will be awarded to an Economic Operator.
For clarity and avoidance of doubt, in relation to the award restriction this applies to any Economic Operator, and includes any parent or any member of the Economic Operator, or any reliant entity (which includes sub-contractors) who the Economic Operator is relying on in terms of technical and professional ability and/or economic and financial standing, in terms of Regulation 64 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations.
The initial Contract term is five (5) years from the commencement of service date with an option to extend for up to a further two (2) years at one (1) year periods at the Scottish Ministers discretion.
The estimated Contract value (including the total extension period) for Lot 1 – Operations is GBP 21,000,000 GBP.
The Contract terms and conditions will be based on ICE 5th Generation which has been amended by Transport Scotland. Each successful Economic Operator shall be invited to submit a tender on the same Contract terms.
The contractor will be procured through a restricted tender procedure, in accordance with Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
To be considered for the 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 Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, on the basis of information they have provided within the ESPD.
The ESPD can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk).

Eligibility requirements: An economic operator participating on its own and which does not rely on the capacities of other entities in order to meet the selection criteria, must fill out one ESPD. An economic operator participating on its own but relying on the capacities of one or more other entities must submit to the contracting authority an ESPD on its behalf together with a separate ESPD on behalf of each of the entities being relied upon and setting out the relevant information. Finally, where a group of economic operators, including temporary associations, participate together in the procurement procedure, a separate ESPD setting out the information required under Parts 2 to 4 must be given for each of the participating economic operators (excluding 4C.1/4.C.2)

Award value: 70000000