Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-11-19
Buyer: Glasgow City Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71200000 | 71210000 | 71220000 | 71221000
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-12-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Provision of multi-disciplinary design services in relation to delivering a masterplan approach to the regeneration of the City Centre frontage onto the River Clyde.
Glasgow City Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced multi-disciplinary design team to provide services in relation to a new quay wall, new public realm and development opportunity at Custom House Quay on the North bank of the River Clyde and quay wall replacement to create an enhanced greenspace at Carlton Place on the South bank of the River Clyde and to ensure the services are provided within the desired timescales.
As detailed in the ‘Invitation to Participate and Statements’ document uploaded to the buyer’s attachment area on PCS-T.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if there are any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
In order to pass the financial check section of the contract it is mandatory for companies to attain the following:
Bidders must comply with the undernoted financial requirements in order to participate in the tendering process:
An overall positive outcome on pre-tax profits over a 3-year period. Exceptional items occurring in the normal course of business can be excluded from calculation. The above would be expressed in the ratio pre-tax profits/turnover,
The above ratios and minimum turnover requirements should be calculated on last set of accounts filed at Companies House. For non-UK companies, ratios and minimum turnover should be calculated on information contained in the most recent audited accounts.
Applicants who have been trading for less than 3 years must provide evidence that they have met the above minimum financial requirements for the period during which they have been trading.
Applicants who do not comply with the above financial requirements but are part of a group, can provide a parent guarantee if the parent company satisfies the financial requirements stipulated above.
Where the applicant is a group of economic operators (such as a consortium), the Lead Party of that group must comply with minimum financial requirements.
Bidders will be required to provide adequate assurance of financial strength to successfully complete their contractual obligations and have available their three(3) most recent sets of annual audited accounts including profit and loss information.
Any bidder who fails to achieve or exceed the criteria as stated above will be excluded at this stage.
— the consultant/organisation shall take out and maintain throughout the period of their services employer’s liability insurance to the value of at least ten million (10 000 000 GBP) Pounds Sterling in respect of any one claim and unlimited in the period,
— the consultant/organisation shall take out and maintain throughout the period of their services public liability insurance to the value of at least five million (5 000 0000 GBP) Pounds Sterling per occurrence and unlimited in the period,


Award value: 3000000