Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-10-01
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30200000 | 30213300 | 30214000 | 30231000 | 30231100
Estimated value: 90000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Scottish Ministers are seeking to appoint a single supplier for a national collaborative arrangement for desktop client devices.
The framework will consist of the following product groups: desktop devices. Desktop monitors and fixed workstation devices. This collaborative framework agreement will be available for use by the Scottish public sector and details are provided in Section II.2.4) Description of the procurement.
Documents can be found at: https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk and search for the following ITT: fixed client device framework itt_31956
The framework agreement will be available for use by the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross-border public authorities within the meaning of Section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, councils constituted under Section 2 of the Local Government, etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Police Authority, Scottish health boards or special health boards, all NHS Scotland, The Integrated Joint Boards established further to the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Act 2014, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, Student Loans Company Ltd, the Forestry Commission, The Commissioner of Northern Lighthouse operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Business Stream Ltd, the Business Gateway National Unit at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, further or higher education institutions being fundable bodies within the meaning of section 6 of the further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by 1 or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by 1 or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by 1 or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by 1 or more of the foregoing. In addition to the contracting authorities listed, the framework agreement will be available to charities entered on the Scottish Charity Register and voluntary organisations entered on the Membership Database of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Information about the Review of Public Procurement in Scotland and links to the other Centres of Expertise are available at:
The initial duration of the framework agreement will be 24 months with the option to extend for a further 24 months.
Bidders must refer to the ESPD (Scotland) Bidders Guidance Instructions document concerning Section B, Part IV), economic and financial standing selection criteria.
A form of company financial assessment from each tenderer is required. The tenderer's failure risk will be evaluated as pass/fail.
There is no action required here for the tenderer, the authority will undertake an action, using Dun and Bradstreet (D&B), to obtain a Failure Risk Score (D&B Failure Score) for the tenderer and any consortia or reliance members.
If the score is less than 51 or no failure score is available we will contact the tenderer and seek further information. We will then use this further information to assess the tenderer’s level of failure risk. If this assessment identifies an unmanageable risk (i.e. it is unacceptable) the tenderer will fail this assessment.
In the event that the tenderer does not meet the financial criteria above, they may still be considered via some form of other assurance e.g. parent company guarantee (providing parent has a failure risk score of 51 or more) or a performance bond.
There must be no qualification or contra-indication from any evidence provided in support of the tenderers economic and financial standing.
Details of the D&B ‘A Guide to Dun and Bradstreet’s Predictive Indicators’ — can be found using the http address below:
There is no action for tenderers to undertake regarding company financial assessment. The authority will undertake the action as detailed above.
It is a requirement of this framework agreement that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types of and levels of insurance, as a minimum, indicated below:


Award value: 90000000