Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-02-15
Buyer: The State Hospitals Board for Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 35121000: Security equipment
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The State Hospitals Board for Scotland Perimeter Security and Enhanced Internal Security Systems 2018
The State Hospital is an NHS hospital providing care and treatment for mentally disordered offenders in conditions of high security. The hospital operates a complex and integrated suite of security systems that provide detection, alarm and observations in order to support this care and treatment. Several of these security measures are to be renewed, refreshed and enhanced. These security measures will include the following systems and equipment:
Due to Word and character limitations the selection and minimum standards are detailed in this notice throughout in a number of the sections.
Please note our minimum requirements are also detailed in the document entitled Contract Notice within PCS-Tender.
The State Hospital is looking for suppliers that as principal security integrators have the skills and evidence backed experience to design, install, and commission a project of this size and complexity. It is a requirement to provide the hospital with detailed information about your experience in this specialist area, working in environments whose access to the site is controlled, tools are monitored and operatives are constantly escorted.
The hospital needs to understand your organisations involvement and resulting successes and evidence based experience from previous works completed. We will be looking for bidder’s to supply information that provides detail of the approach adopted to project management, implementation and the commissioning of resultant works. Bidders should be aware that this project will be delivered within an active live work environment that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The hospital therefore requires bidding organisations to evidence superior project management, implementation and commissioning skills that will ensure that the security of the State Hospital is never compromised.
Bidders must provide client contact information for any projects that are used as examples or evidence to support your experience and bidders should be aware that The State Hospital will contact the clients you have identified.
Experience provided must relate to any successful delivery of complex integrated security systems set in organisations that make up the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), High Secure Hospitals, Category A prisons, Government or Military settings in the United Kingdom or a compatible EU establishment. This will be an absolute prerequisite for bidders. Applied standards will be UK derived British Standards and CE EU standards.
Minimum Requirements can also be read in the document repository "visible to suppliers" section available in PCS-Tender Document will be named "Contract Notice”.
Bidders should note that when it is judged by the State Hospital (at their sole discretion) to be appropriate the hospital will collaborate with other relevant bodies for the benefit of evaluating your response.
Management information will be required on a monthly basis including reporting on community benefits.
Evidence of your company's insurance certification detailing the required level of insurance as per the levels stated within the Contract Notice.
Tenderers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and dispatch the electronic tender well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.
The State Hospitals Board for Scotland is committed to maximising community benefit from its procurement activities. Under this procurement, the supplier and its supply chain will be required to actively participate in the achievement of the authorities' social and economic objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social, economic and environmental considerations.