Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-01-13
Buyer: Renfrewshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45246000: River regulation and flood control works | 45246200 | 90700000
Estimated value: 400000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-02-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Renfrewshire Council wishes to invite tenderers to bid for 2 years plus 1-year plus 1-year term service contract for watercourse maintenance.
Watercourse maintenance works: including drainage works; cleaning and minor repair works to grids, culverts and drains; emergency works; and maintenance of flood prevention schemes.
4B.1.1Bidders will be required to have a minimum “general” yearly turnover of 75 000 GBP for the last 2 years.
4B.3 Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
4B.5.1 It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtaining prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = Statutory minimum 5 000 000.00 GBP each and every claim;
Statutory third-party motor vehicle cover, or where Service Provider require their employees to use their own personal motor vehicle in performance of the Service, the Service Provider shall provide those insurance details and a letter confirming that the Service Provider will fully indemnify the Council in respect of any loss or damage as a result of the employee’s use of their personal motor vehicle in performance of the Service.
4B.6 The Council will use Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) to assist in its determination of the organisations financial status and risk. It is recommended that Tenderers review their own D&B Failure Score in advance of submitting their Tender Submission. If following this review, Tenderers consider that the D&B Failure Score does not reflect their current financial status, the Tenderer should attach a document to this section giving a detailed explanation, together with any relevant supporting independent evidence. The Council will review any such information as part of the evaluation of Tenderer’s financial status. Where the Tenderer is under no obligation to publish accounts and, therefore, does not have a D&B Failure Score or equivalent rating, they must provide their audited financial accounts for the previous 2 years as part of their Tender Submission in order that the Council may assess these to determine the suitability of the Tenderer to undertake a contract or contracts of this size.
Where a consortium bid is received, the D&B Failure Score of each consortium member shall be assessed. Where the Tenderer is a subsidiary of a group but is applying as a separate legal entity and fails to meet the minimum financial turnover requirements or minimum D&B Failure Score (or equivalent) as a company, in order to progress to stage two of the evaluation they must provide as part of their tender submission, written confirmation from an authorised signatory of the parent company, that either a parent company guarantee will be provided within 2 weeks of request. The parent company must meet the minimum financial requirements as assessed by the Council. The parent company guarantee will be in the form provided in the Tender Documentation.
4B.1.1Bidders will be required to have a minimum “general” yearly turnover of 75 000 GBP for the last 2 years.
4B.5.1 It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtaining prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = Statutory minimum 5 000 000.00 GBP each and every claim;
Statutory third-party motor vehicle cover, or where Service Provider require their employees to use their own personal motor vehicle in performance of the Service, the Service Provider shall provide those insurance details and a letter confirming that the Service Provider will fully indemnify the Council in respect of any loss or damage as a result of the employee’s use of their personal motor vehicle in performance of the Service.
The Council may undertake supplementary investigations to establish if the D&B failure score is a reflection of the current financial stability of the Tenderer; the outcome of such investigations will influence if a Tenderer is deemed to meet the minimum requirements to pass this bid selection stage in terms of their financial stability for the purposes of this contract. The Tenderer will be notified if supplementary investigations into the financial stability are being undertaken.
Where the Tenderer intends to sub-contract more than 25 % of any Contract value to a single sub-contractor, the Tenderer must provide a D&B comprehensive report on the sub-contractor. The Council reserves the right to request one copy of all sub-contractors last 2 financial years’ audited accounts and details of significant changes since the last financial year end. The Council also reserves the right to reject the use of sub-contractors in relation to the Contract where they fail to meet the Council's minimum financial criteria.


Award value: 400000