Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-08-17
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 45220000 | 45221100: Bridge construction works | 45233000: Construction work for highways and roads | 45233100: Construction work for highways | 45233124: Arterial road construction work
Estimated value: 530000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The provision of integrated network management; routine, winter and emergency maintenance; renewal and improvement works and other such works; design and supervision of renewal and improvement works and such other work on the specified trunk roads within the Unit.
The contract will include indicative maximum value thresholds for categories of ordered work. These thresholds are subject to change during the contract based on the performance of the service provider. For strategic reasons connected with wider roads procurement requirements, contract coverage of (i) all; or (ii) of particular sections, of the A96 trunk road for the full term of the contract, is not confirmed in this Prior Information Notice. Further information shall be included in the procurement documents.
Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Ministers have identified the requirement to appoint a suitably experienced economic operator to operate the Scottish Trunk Road Network Management Contract - North East Unit. For strategic reasons connected with wider roads procurement requirements, contract coverage of (i) all; or (ii) of particular sections, of the A96 trunk road for the full term of the contract, is not confirmed in this Prior Information Notice. Further information shall be included in the procurement documents.
Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Ministers have identified the requirement to appoint a suitably experienced economic operator to operate the Scottish Trunk Road Network Management Contract - North East Unit. As noted in II.1.4 above, for strategic reasons connected with wider roads procurement requirements, contract coverage of (i) all; or (ii) of particular sections, of the A96 trunk road for the full term of the contract, is not confirmed in this Prior Information Notice. Further information shall be included in the procurement documents.
This exercise is Tranche 2 of a two tranche procurement activity which collectively covers all 4 geographical Units within the Scottish Trunk Road Network. Tranche 1 focused on both the South East and South West units with both contracts awarded in March 2020. This second tranche focuses on the North Units of the Scottish Trunk Road Network. The procurement covered under this contract notice is for the North East unit only. The procurement for the North West unit is covered under a separate PIN notice and can also be found on Public Contracts Scotland.
Tenderers should note that a maximum of two Units can be won across the network, however, this is limited to one in the South and one in the North. For clarity and the avoidance of doubt in respect of this Award Restriction, an economic operator that has submitted a tender includes any person or entity involved in the Tranche 1 Procurement or Tranche 2 Procurement as parent undertaking in terms of section 1162 of the Companies Act 2006, any member of the group of companies of which the parent undertaking forms part, lead bidder, consortium or JV member, or any other reliant entity whose capacity in terms of technical and professional ability and / or economic and financial standing, is relied upon in terms of Regulation 64 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Transport Scotland will manage the proposed procurement process on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. In the event of the contract award, the contract will be entered into between the Scottish Ministers and the successful tenderer.
The initial contract term is 8 years with options to extend by up to a further 4 years. The estimated total value provided in II.1.5) is for the potential maximum contract term of 12 years.
The Contract terms and conditions will be based upon ICE 5th Generation which has been amended by Transport Scotland. Each selected economic operator shall be invited to submit a tender on the same contract terms.
The contractor will be procured through a competitive tender procedure, in accordance with the competitive dialogue procedure as provided for in the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Due to project complexity, the contract requires to be performed by a single contractor and as such shall not be divided into lots.
Further information on the trunk roads comprising the North East Unit will be appended to this notice in due course.
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=627720.


Award value: 530000000