Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-28
Buyer: CalMac Ferries Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 79212000 | 79212200
Estimated value: 543784 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The purpose of this tender exercise is to award a contract for the provision of Internal Audit Services to David MacBrayne Ltd.
David MacBrayne Ltd is seeking proposals from suitably qualified professional firms on what they believe to be appropriate Internal Audit services for the David MacBrayne Group based on your understanding of the business requirements of the Group and its operations.
On average, throughout any one year, the supplier of Internal Audit Services would normally conduct a number of reviews in support of the ‘in house’ team. Over the last 3 years, this equates on average to 100 days a year. CFL is not bound to guarantee any given number of days and will only pay for those days actually agreed and subsequently received.
The successful company shall assist the ‘in house’ Audit function in the execution of the annual Internal Audit plan for the Group and its subsidiaries set out below:
Our offshore crewing companies are located in Guernsey. All other companies are located in Gourock. On occasions you may be required to do some work onboard a vessel or at specific Ports throughout our network.
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.
100 — Excellent. Response is completely relevant and excellent overall. The response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates thorough experience, knowledge or skills/capacity/capability relevant to providing similar services to similar clients.
75 — Good. Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good amount of experience, knowledge or skills/capacity/capability relevant to providing similar services to similar clients.
50 — Acceptable. Response is relevant and acceptable. The response demonstrates broad previous experience, knowledge and skills/capacity/capability but may lack in some aspects of similarity e.g. previous experience, knowledge or skills may not be of a similar nature.
25 — Poor. Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response shows some elements of relevance to the criterion but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate previous relevant experience/capacity/capability.
0 — Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate previous experience/capacity/capability relevant to this criterion.
0 Unacceptable; 25 Poor; 50 Acceptable; 75 Good; 100 Excellent. Full definitions of the scoring are provided in the ITT.
Competitive procedure with negotiation explanation — Competitive Procedure with Negotiation (CPN) this is a two-stage procedure run along the same lines as a Restricted procedure. This requires interested parties to complete a pre-qualification stage by submitting a European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) before being invited to submit a tender. This down selection process allows us to limit the number of parties receiving the full tender and moving forward to the negotiation phase(s).
Under CPN tenders are submitted from down selected suppliers and are then subject to evaluation and negotiation and then re-submitted to finalise positions and allow selection of a preferred bidder.


Winner: Azets
Award value: 543784
Number of bids: 5