Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-13
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71313450 | 90700000 | 90710000 | 90711000 | 90711500
Submission deadline: 2020-12-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Scottish Government requires to appoint a suitably competent supplier to provide a cloud-based software solution to store, manage and analyse the organisation’s environmental performance and sustainability data. The solution must provide full carbon accounting functions and a suite of reporting tools and mechanisms to allow the Scottish Government to report on all aspects of environmental performance and carbon emissions across its Estate and activities.
— engage with the supply chain to drive enhanced sustainability and carbon reporting relating to purchased goods and services;
The Scottish Government is required to comply with environmental and sustainability legislation. Utilising the solution will assist the Scottish Government in data collection, management and reporting to the specific legislative requirements stated below, subject to future changes:
The Scottish Government’s Programme for Government 2020-2021 states that regulations will shortly be introduced requiring public bodies (including the SG itself) to set dates for when they will become net zero emitters and introduce science based targets (SBTs) for their emissions. It is therefore vital that the solution will offer the capability to track progress against the various net zero trajectories and SBTs.
The solution will streamline existing data management arrangements and provide enhanced and accessible management information. The solution will enable full carbon accounting and emissions reporting in line with the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard. The solution will offer the facility to track progress against science based targets (SBTs), other user-defined targets and key milestones.
The software solution will replace the existing system, an in-house data warehouse which has reached natural end of life.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any contract.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any contract, the insurances indicated below:
0 = Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate an ability to meet the requirement.
1 = Poor. Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled.
2 = Acceptable. Response is relevant and acceptable. The response addresses a broad understanding of the requirement but may lack details on how the requirement will be fulfilled in certain areas.
3 = Good. Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provides details on how the requirements will be fulfilled.
Bidders must complete the ESPD (Scotland) to demonstrate adherence to the exclusion and selection criteria for this procurement.
If there are named subcontractors/technicians upon which the bidder will rely to meet the selection criteria, these named parties must complete and reattach the ESPD Supplier Response Form attached to ESPD questions on (Technicians) and (Subcontractors) on PCS-T. These parties must complete the first three sections of the ESPD form, as well as any part of the section 4 Selection criteria that the main bidder will rely upon the parties to fulfil. If parties have not yet been identified, this information may be required at a later date. Scottish Government reserves the right to request this information from relevant parties upon whom the main bidder will not rely to fulfil selection criteria.
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and if so, for what proportion of the contract.