Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-06-23
Buyer: Dumfries and Galloway Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85142100 | 85147000 | 85312320
Estimated value: 247277 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Dumfries and Galloway Council requires the provision of an Occupational Health services for all Dumfries and Galloway Council employees. This includes pre-employment health assessments, health assessments, home visits, health surveillance/monitoring, specific health surveillance, vaccination/inoculation programmes, health examination/medicals, workplace visits/inspections, counselling and Physiotherapy.
A comprehensive OHS is required to preserve and enhance the health of employees and to advise the Council on all matters regarding health and, in particular, the health of its employees at work to meet with current Government initiatives on healthy workplaces.
Provide a qualified physiotherapy service (including additional therapies/treatment options and a wide range of techniques) to employees who are referred on the basis that they have experienced accidental injury, general musculo-skeletal problems or other health problems and would benefit from physiotherapy assessment and/or treatment.
Provide a counselling service to employees who are referred on the basis that they would assess and provide the necessary counselling service including alcohol and drug counselling, to employees who would benefit from counselling assessment and/or treatment.
Provide a drug and alcohol testing service on request from Dumfries and Galloway Council for the following reasons:
Just cause testing, where there is a justifiable reason to do so e.g. where an employee is suspected of being under the influence of a substance which would have an adverse impact on their work or has the potential to put themselves or others at risk, or has been involved in an accident, incident or near miss.
Pre-employment screening will be carried out for preferred candidates being considered for safety critical roles.
The Authority will notify economic operators who submitted a tender, of its decision to award the contract which notification will contain among other information, a summary of the reasons why the economic operator was unsuccessful. The notification will incorporate a “standstill period” of a minimum of 10 clear calendar days (or a minimum of 15 if the communication method used is not electronic) between the date on which the Authority dispatches the notice and the date on which the Authority proposes to make an award pursuant to this procurement. The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the contract until the court proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of, or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The remedies that may be awarded by the courts before the contract has been entered into include the setting aside of the decision to award the contract to the winning tenderer. The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority after the contract has been entered into will not affect the contract unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the courts where the contract has been entered into are limited to the award of damages. Economic operators are entitled to write to the Authority after receipt of the notification should they
Require further clarification. The Authority will respond within 15 days of such a written request, but it should be noted that receipt by the Authority of such request during the standstill period may not prevent the Authority from awarding the contract following the expiry of the standstill period. Where an economic operator is dissatisfied with the Authority's response
To its request for clarification, or considers that the contract has been concluded in breach of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, such economic operator is advised to promptly seek independent legal advice.


Winner: Genesis OHS Ltd
Award value: 247277
Number of bids: 2