Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-03-15
Buyer: Heriot Watt University
Country: UK
Region: Edinburgh, City of
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45210000: Building construction work
Estimated value: 14500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-04-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University is seeking a Main Contractor for the new Discovery & Innovation Building on its Edinburgh Campus. The current indicative proposals and project information can be viewed within ‘Project Documentation — Appendix H’ in the PCS-T portal.
The University is seeking a Main Contractor for the new Discovery & Innovation Building on its Edinburgh Campus.
The current indicative proposals and project information can be viewed within ‘Project Documentation — Appendix H’ in the PCS-T portal.
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.
Statement for 4A.1 — If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established. For this project, this includes a requirement for all on site staff to be accredited under the Construction Skills Certificate Scheme (CSCS) or equivalent.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover, stated below. Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the Tenderer will be required to state the date which they were set up/started trading.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below (http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf).
The successful Contractor will be required to provide two years audited accounts, or equivalent prior to awarded to the Contract, or confirm in their tender submission the publicly accessible, free, online location of accounts if available in such a format. There must be no qualification or contra-indication from any evidence provided in support of the Contractor's economic and financial standing.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of 24 600 000 GBP for the last 2 years.
Contractors must provide management and community benefits information when requested by the University throughout the life of the Contract.
(i) 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.
(iv) The ratio for this procurement exercise is Technical 80 % and Commercial 20 %. Detail on this award criteria can be found in Section 3 of the ITT.
100 — Value Add: The Tenderer has provided a strong methodology addressing all the key points requested and has also provided detail of relevant value add that they can provide.
75 — Good: The Tenderer response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provide details on how the requirements will be fulfilled.
50 — Acceptable: The Tenderer has provided an acceptable methodology addressing most of the key points listed above in detail OR the Tenderer has provided all the key points listed above but lacks detail in answering the question fully. The response provides confidence that the requirements can be met.

Eligibility requirements: Please refer to this statement when completing section 4A of the ESPD (Scotland): Statement for 4A.1 — If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established. For this project, this includes a requirement for all on site staff to be accredited under the Construction Skills Certificate Scheme (CSCS) or equivalent.

Award value: 14500000