Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-05-13
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 75231200
Estimated value: 42000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-07-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Provision of a service for remote electronic monitoring of Individuals through the Criminal Justice or Children’s Hearing Systems.
Electronic monitoring is a versatile and well-established feature of the criminal justice system in Scotland. First piloted in Scotland in 1998 and rolled-out nationally in 2002 electronic monitoring is used to monitor a number of different community disposals as well as being included as a licence condition on release from prison.
The Scottish Ministers are seeking to establish a managed service contract for electronic monitoring to support the Criminal and Youth Justice Systems in Scotland. Electronic Monitoring, also called “tagging” allows justice personnel to quickly and easily confirm that a monitored person is at a specified location when they are required to be present or away from a location that they are not allowed to be present at. When a Monitored Person is placed in an electronic monitoring programme, a tamper resistant electronic device is attached to their person. The device transmits an electronic signal indicating whether the monitored person has had any unauthorised absences, attendance at restricted locations or has tampered with the device.
The service provider will be responsible for the installation, maintenance and removal of all necessary equipment and for the monitoring of those placed in an electronic monitoring programme, which may cover:
1) Radio frequency technology, which has been used in Scotland for a number of years, and subject to the passing of the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill;
The service required is a complete service including responsibility for the provision of all remote monitoring service requirements including hardware, software, personnel, liaison with other agencies, including the participation in training and raising awareness of agencies and provision of statistical information, record keeping and development of systems.
The award criteria have a first question relating to compliance with the technical requirements of the specification. This is a PASS/FAIL question.
We will make an initial pass/fail assessment of economic and financial standing of each tenderer (and all consortia and/or reliance partners) using Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) indicators and following process:
1) The D&B “Failure Score” — a score of between 51 and 100 will result in a pass. If the tenderer (or consortia or reliance partner) scores below 51, then we will proceed to look at;
2) The D&B “Financial Strength — Risk Indicator” — a score between 86 and 100 will result in a pass. If the score is less than 86 or no score is available we will;
3) Contact the Tenderer (or consortia or reliance partner)and will require audited financial accounts to be provided. These will be used to conduct an assessment of the risk of business failure. If this assessment identifies an unacceptable risk the tenderer (or consortia or reliance partner) will fail this assessment.
In the event that the tenderer (or consortia or reliance partner) does not meet the economic and financial standing criteria, they may still be considered via some form of other assurance e.g. Parent Company Guarantee (providing that the guarantor does pass the EFS assessment) 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:
1) The D&B “Failure Score” — a score of between 51 and 100 will result in a pass. If the tenderer (or consortia or reliance partner) scores below 51, then we will proceed to look at;


Award value: 42000000