Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-16
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly referred to as NHS National Services Scotland (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Authority’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 71000000 | 71200000 | 71248000 | 71310000
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-09-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This Framework will provide Project Manager services to Framework Customers (as further described in the
Please note the content of all of this SOR which specifies the full requirements which are relevant to the performance of a prospective Project Manager duties under the proposed PM Framework.
The role of PM is varied and may include inputs to projects to be delivered via a variety of procurement routes as indicated above. It will be a key requirement of this framework to provide Project Manager services for construction projects procured under the NEC3/ NEC4 suite of contracts. The Project Manager will be required to be conversant with all procurement routes used to deliver NHSScotland projects.
The authority is not able to guarantee the volume, type or value of any work called off under the framework however the current estimate
ESPD Technical Envelope Section on Technical and Professional Ability — Questions 4C.1.2, 4C.6, 4C.8.1 and 4C 8.2 must be answered. The scoring and evaluation mechanism is further described in the Scoring Questions Evaluation Guidance document which is attached to the ESPD. It is the intention of the Authority that those bidders who achieve the eight (8) highest scores will be invited to submit a tender unless two or more bidders score the same eighth (8th) highest score in which case all such bidders will be invited to tender.
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. This procurement is not suitable to be divided into lots as that is not considered to be cost effective or time efficient for the type and range of work anticipated.
Cat A — NEC3 Project Manager Accreditation and minimum of 3 years' relevant NEC3 project experience along with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience and with a CIOB or APM Project Professional or MRICS qualification through the Project Management pathway.
Cat B — CIOB or APM Project Professional Qualification and minimum of 5 years' relevant experience or MRICS qualification through the Project Management pathway and minimum of 5 years' relevant experience.
Equivalence to these qualifications is acceptable provided that the relevant qualification criteria are evidenced and must be for construction related disciplines together with relevant experience.
This section refers to Section B of Part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) (‘ESPD Scotland’) and covers questions 4B.2 — 4B.6.1 of the ESPD (Scotland) and responses will be assessed on a pass/fail basis:
4B1.2 Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of a minimum of 800,000 GBP for the last 3 years based on submitted accounts for this period.
4B.2.2 Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of a minimum of 800,000 GBP in the business area covered by the contract for the last 3 years.
4B.3 Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date on which they were set up or started trading.
4B.4 Bidders will be required to state the value(s) for the financial ratio(s) from their last three years accounts and will be evaluated as set down in the Project Manager Framework Economic/Financial Standing Evaluation guidance attached to this ESPD Question.
4B.6 — Qualitative Moderation — As a requirement for the financial economic and financial standing evaluation, each potential supplier must complete Question 4B.6 of the ESPD setting out the information as indicated in the instructional attachment to this question.

Eligibility requirements: Project Manager — General and including NEC3 Contract Duties Manpower assessment based on numbers of: Cat A — NEC3 Project Manager Accreditation and minimum of 3 years' relevant NEC3 project experience along with a minimum of 10 years relevant experience and with a CIOB or APM Project Professional or MRICS qualification through the Project Management pathway. Cat B — CIOB or APM Project Professional Qualification and minimum of 5 years' relevant experience or MRICS qualification through the Project Management pathway and minimum of 5 years' relevant experience. Equivalence to these qualifications is acceptable provided that the relevant qualification criteria are evidenced and must be for construction related disciplines together with relevant experience. Checks on qualifications will be carried out as part of the evaluation process at Tender stage. Refer to the Statement of Requirements for full details.

Award value: 4000000