Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-24
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71242000 | 71244000 | 71246000 | 71310000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-05-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Transport Scotland, an agency of Scottish Government, contracts in the name of and on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. It has identified a requirement to appoint suitably experienced and qualified Economic Operators (consultants) to provide specialist advice and services relative to its Trunk Road projects.
It has been concluded that this requirement would be best met with a multi-supplier framework agreement over a 4 year period, whereby works of varied size, value and complexity can be individually called-off as required.
The framework agreement shall be procured through a competitive tender procedure in accordance with the Restricted Procedure as detailed in the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Ministers wish to progress a procurement competition to obtain services for suitably qualified and experienced quantity surveyors capable of providing estimating, quantification and other services relating to Transport Scotland's trunk road schemes.
Specialist advice from quantity surveying professionals will provide greater confidence in estimating works and provide greater certainty in budget planning. It will also support improvements in value for money objectives through our Procurement and Construction Management procedures, providing additional rigor to our current processes. This service will also support the evaluation of claim substantiations and reduce risk to procurement exercises, ensuring accurate estimation for tender returns and budgeting purposes as well as providing a defendable basis on which to challenge Contractors and / Designers.
(i) technical review cost estimates produced by third parties for Transport Scotland to establish the degree of accuracy, appropriateness and confidence to support decisions making processes;
(ii) provide accurate cost estimates for the construction and / or design of transport related projects with programme values ranging up to 2 300 000 000 GBP (this may include provision of cost estimates for specific elements / portions of larger construction projects);
(iii) provide accurate cost estimates for the maintenance activities associated with transport related projects;
(v) preparation and pricing of bills of quantities or other pricing documents for inclusion within tender documentation, or for use as a benchmarking exercise;
(vii) advise on or evaluate the cost and contractual consequences arising from an acceleration instruction;
It is envisaged that the services can be provided remotely at the organisations offices with attendance required on an ad-hoc basis at Transport Scotland’s offices. However, on occasion, the provider may be required to undertake the following duties:
ii. attend meetings at Transport Scotland’s main office in Buchanan House, Glasgow or site offices as required;
The Framework participants will be procured through a competitive tender procedure, in accordance with the restricted procedure as provided for in the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. The Framework Agreement will be for a period of 4 years. Contracts called off the framework will be of varying length depending on individual project requirements.
To be considered for this Contract, Economic Operators are required to complete the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) in accordance with this Contract Notice. Economic Operators shall be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, on the basis of information they have provided within the ESPD.
The ESPD can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk).

Eligibility requirements: III.1.1 Economic Operators must be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers kept in the member state of its establishment (as described in Schedule 5 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015) (i.e. registered under Companies House). Economic operators should provide details under Question Ref. 4A.1. Accreditation / Registration. Economic Operators must demonstrate within ESPD Question Ref. 4C.6 that they have an appropriate registration to provide dispute and claims and/or quantity surveying advice by an appropriate authority, this should be with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Economic Operators should provide details of their certifications/ accreditations/ registrations under ESPD, Question Ref 4A.1 and Question Ref. 4C.6. Subsequently, under ESPD, Question Ref 4D.1 Economic Operators are required to confirm their compliance and be able to provide the appropriate certification. Qualifications and Experience. It is a requirement that staff employed under the Contract shall have minimum levels of experience, education and professional qualifications. In particular, the Consultant shall have professional staff who are Chartered professionals (or equivalent) with membership of an appropriate body (RICS, ICE, IHT) and relevant experience to the appropriate Lot. For Lot 1, chartered professionals should have relevant extensive experience of claim/dispute resolution on highway construction projects and also experience of complex contracts including 'design and build' and 'design, build, finance, operate'. For Lot 2, the consultant shall have staff who are chartered professionals (or equivalent) with MRICS with relevant experience of highway construction projects. The minimum educational and professional qualifications include: Professional staff — chartered status (or equivalent) of a relevant professional organisation with experience of providing similar services to the competition; Graduate staff—Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject from a relevant degree-awarding body with relevant experience of providing similar services to the relevant lot; and Technical Staff — Appropriately qualified to contribute to the provision of services. Sub-contracting. Under ESPD, Question Ref 4C.10: Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.

Award value: 3000000