Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-02
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly referred to as NHS National Services Scotland (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Authority’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 71000000 | 71200000 | 71248000 | 71310000
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-08-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This Framework will provide Cost Advisor services to Framework Customers (as further described in the Statement of Requirement) on a call-off basis.
Please note the content of all of this SOR which specifies the full requirements which are relevant to the performance of a prospective Cost Advisors duties under the proposed CA Framework.
The role of Cost Advisor is varied and may include inputs to projects to be delivered via a variety of procurement routes as indicated above. It will be a key requirement of this framework to provide Cost Advisor services for construction projects procured under the NEC3/ NEC4 suite of contracts. The Cost Advisor will be required to be conversant with all procurement routes used to deliver NHSScotland projects.
The authority is not able to guarantee the volume, type or value of any work called off under the framework however the current estimate of the total potential value over the term of the framework is noted below.
ESPD Technical Envelope Section on Technical and Professional Ability — Questions 4C.1.2, 4C.6, 4C.8.1 and 4C 8.2 must be answered. The scoring and evaluation mechanism is further described in the Scoring Questions Evaluation Guidance document which is attached to the ESPD. It is the intention of the Authority that those bidders who achieve the eight (8) highest scores will be invited to submit a tender unless two or more bidders score the same eighth (8th) highest score in which case all such bidders will be invited to tender.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. This procurement is not suitable to be divided into lots as that is not considered to be cost effective or time efficient for the type and range of work anticipated.
Cat A — FRICS or MRICS qualification through the Quantity Surveying pathway and minimum 10 years'relevant post-qualification experience.
Cat B — FRICS or MRICS qualification through the Quantity Surveying pathway and minimum of 5 years' relevant post-graduation experience.
Equivalence to these qualifications is acceptable provided that the relevant qualification criteria are evidenced.
This section refers to Section B of Part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) (‘ESPD Scotland’) and covers questions 4B.2 — 4B.6.1 of the ESPD (Scotland) and responses will be assessed on a pass/fail basis:
4B1.2 Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of a minimum of 800 000 GBP for the last 3 years based on submitted accounts for this period.
4B2.2 Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of a minimum of 800 000 GBP for the last 3 years based on submitted accounts for this period.
4B.3 Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date on which they were set up or started trading.
4B.4 Bidders will be required to state the value(s) for the financial ratio(s) from their last three years accounts and will be evaluated as set down in the lead Advisor Framework Economic/Financial Standing Evaluation guidance attached to this ESPD Question.
4B.6 — Qualitative Moderation — As a requirement for the financial economic and financial standing evaluation, each potential supplier must complete Question 4B.6 of the ESPD setting out the information as indicated in the instructional attachment to this question.

Eligibility requirements: Cost Advisor — including Joint Cost Advisor. Manpower assessment based on numbers of: Cat A — FRICS or MRICS qualification through the Quantity Surveying pathway and minimum 10 years'relevant post-qualification experience. Cat B — FRICS or MRICS qualification through the Quantity Surveying pathway and minimum of 5 years' relevant post-graduation experience. Equivalence to these qualifications is acceptable provided that the relevant qualification criteria are evidenced. Checks on qualifications will be carried out as part of the evaluation process at Tender stage. Refer to the Statement of Requirements for full details.

Award value: 4000000