Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-17
Buyer: Glasgow City Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34143000: Winter-maintenance vehicles | 37411000 | 44113910
Estimated value: 300000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: To ensure that essential routes are available to the public to use and that there is clear access to the grounds of care homes and residential homes, regardless of weather conditions, in order to avoid risk to lives and damages to properties and vehicles.
Glasgow City Council, Neighbourhoods and Sustainability (NS), are mainly responsible for the winter maintenance service within their designated boundaries. Their objective is to ensure that essential routes are available to the public to utilise regardless to the weather conditions in order to avoid risk to lives and damages to properties and vehicles. During periods of prolonged/severe winter weather it is necessary to supplement the Council’s in-house resources using external contractor(s).
Glasgow City Council, Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) main objective for this procurement exercise is to ensure that essential access is available to care homes and residential homes which provide services to the most vulnerable people in Glasgow. This will require all car parks and access roads within the grounds to be clear of snow to allow access for emergency vehicles.
The council will require 1 contractor to provide all the required services for 5 day care units and for 7 residential homes.
Please note that during the framework period the council reserves the right to add or remove locations. Should the council require locations to be added, this shall be classified as non-core and the contractors will be required to price these ‘Non-Core’ elements
In order to pass the financial check section of the contract, it is mandatory for companies to attain the undernoted:
Bidders must comply with the undernoted financial requirements in order to participate in the tendering process:
There is a minimum financial requirement that affects trading performance and balance sheet strength. Financial requirements should be calculated on latest filed accounts with Company House.
— exceptional items, occuring in the normal course of business, can be excluded from the calculation.
Applicants who have been trading for less than the 3 years noted above must provide evidence that they are complying with the above minimum financial requirements for the period in which they have been trading.
Applicants who do not comply with the above financial requirements but are part of a group, can provide a parent guarantee if the parent company satisfies the financial requirements stipulated above.
Bidders will be required to provide adequate assurance of financial strength to successfully complete their contractual obligations, and have available their two (2) most recent sets of annual audited accounts including profit and loss information.
The Council reserves the right at its own discretion to seek such other information from the applicant in accordance with Regulation 61(7) or Regulation 61(8) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 to prove the applicant’s economic and financial standing.
Applicants who are subsequently appointed to the Framework shall, during the lifetime of the framework agreement, inform the Council immediately of any material changes to the information provided in their submission in relation to economic and financial standing. The Council notes Regulation 60(9) and 60(11) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and reserves the right to refuse to award a contract following a mini-competition should the applicant no longer meet the requirements set out in this ESPD.
Any bidder that fails to achieve or exceed the criteria as stated above will be excluded at this stage.


Award value: 300000