Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-01-28
Buyer: Zero Waste Scotland Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 66171000 | 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 79111000 | 79310000 | 79400000
Submission deadline: 2020-03-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: Zero Waste Scotland wishes to appoint a contractor/s for the provision of technical, specialist and general business support functions to support the delivery of the circular economy business support service. This will be through a multi-lot, multiple supplier framework agreement.
Support may be provided at locations across Scotland, including the Highlands and Islands, dependent upon the location of the support recipient.
The technical services provided will primarily support the circular economy activator workstream by helping ensure that supported SMEs have access to specialist sectoral and/or market knowledge to help with proof of concept and market validation that enables a more robust and demonstrable understanding of their anticipated market. This may include demand, barriers to entry, regulatory and permitting requirements, and the optimum route to market.
It may also be required, from time to time, to provide more specialist support to SMEs within both the circular economy primer and the circular economy implementation support workstreams where this provide more effective and efficient delivery of the requirements.
It is essential that the services are delivered in such a way that incorporates and develops outputs from previous stages of support or liaises with other agencies where support elements have or are being delivered in tandem.
Zero Waste Scotland anticipates appointing up to 3 suppliers (the “Framework Contractor(s)”) to this lot, subject to the number of eligible tender submissions received.
This agreement may be extended by up to a further 2, 12-month periods, subject to satisfactory performance, continued funding and prior agreement between Zero Waste Scotland and the contractor.
Scottish Government ERDF Programme 2015-2020, Strategic Intervention: Resource Efficient Circular Economy Accelerator Programme.
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.
Support may be provided at locations across Scotland, including the Highlands and Islands, dependent upon the location of the support recipient.
The technical services provided will support the circular economy primer workstream by helping ensure that supported SMEs are better developed and equipped in terms of knowledge, guidance and understanding necessary to identify and implement circular economy approaches that incentivise sustainable consumption and deliver sustainable production in fulfilment of the SMEs services and/or products.
It is essential that the range of support services provided through this lot are delivered in ways that are innovative, flexible and sufficiently adaptable to a range of SME types primarily across (but not limited to) the priority sectors.
Zero Waste Scotland anticipates appointing up to 3 suppliers (the ‘Framework Contractor(s)’) to this lot, however this is subject to the number of eligible tender submissions received.
This agreement may be extended by up to a further 2, 12-month periods, subject to satisfactory performance, continued funding and prior agreement between Zero Waste Scotland and the contractor.
Scottish Government ERDF Programme 2015-2020, Strategic Intervention: Resource Efficient Circular Economy Accelerator Programme.

Eligibility requirements: III.1.1) of the notice is not applicable to this procurement exercise. Section A of Part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) is not being used for this Contract Opportunity.