Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-07-03
Buyer: University of Edinburgh
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 38434540 | 51430000
Estimated value: 1529667 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-08-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University invites tenders for the supply, installation and technical support for barrier maintenance solutions (air showers) for the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR) and other Capital Projects. This procurement will be conducted via Public Contracts Scotland — Tender portal (PCS-T), project_10135, using a one stage Open Procedure. Bidders must self-certify their adherence to the conditions of participation via the ESPD (Scotland) in PSC-T, and may be required to submit Means of Proof before contract award. Bidders must refer to the specific requirements listed in Section III of this OJEU Contract Notice when completing the ESPD in PCS-T.
This contract is not lotted, but forms part of a family of congruent capital equipment Lots. Lots 2 (Cage, Rack and Cabinet Washers), 3 (Sterilisers) and 7 (Bedding Systems) are already published (OJEU References 2017/S 242-502531, 2018/S 013-025128 and 2018/S 019-038854). Subsequent Lots will be issued by separate Contract Notices.
The University of Edinburgh Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the Edinburgh BioQuarter site, plus other sites across Edinburgh.
Lot 6 — Barrier Maintenance Solutions (air showers). This forms part of a family of congruent capital equipment Lots with an overall aggregate value of ca. 33 000 000.00 GBP. Subsequent Lots will be issued by separate Contract Notices. The overall CBS equipment procurement comprises:
Lot 1: Hotel and Welfare Processing Solutions (bottles, cages, IVC systems, IVC cage racks, IVC transport trolleys, change stations).
Lot 3: Steam Sterilisers (with H2O2) (steriliser with a range of volumes, configurations and facilities) — already published.
Lot 7: Clean and dirty bedding handling systems (with dirty cage robotics) (cage filling station, cage emptying, cage empting robotics, localised laminar flow) — already published.
Two additional contract term extensions each of 2 years are allowed for, at the University's sole discretion.
This framework agreement will provide a procurement vehicle for equipping the University's new Institute for Regeneration and Repair as a vanguard project. It will also support other capital infrastructure projects at various sites across Edinburgh, as well as encompassing other ad hoc equipment requirements of a congruent nature which arise during the contract term.
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.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum “general” yearly turnover of 3 059 334.00 GBP for the last two years preceding the date of this Contract Notice.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of 3 059 334.00 GBP in the business area covered by the contract (Biomedical Research Equipment) for each of the last two years preceding the date of this Contract Notice.
Where turnover information is not available for the period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date that they were set up/started trading.
Current Ratio, defined as Current Assets divided by Current Liabilities; and Acid Test Ratio defined as (Current Assets - Stock) divided by Current Liabilities.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:

Eligibility requirements: Not applicable to this procurement exercise.

Award value: 1529667