Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-22
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly referred to as NHS National Services Scotland (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Authority’))
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 71000000 | 71200000 | 71248000 | 71310000
Estimated value: 800000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-01-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This Framework will provide Construction Health and Safety/CDM Advisor services to Framework Customers (as further described in the Statement of Requirement) on a call-off basis. The role of the Construction Health and Safety / CDM Advisor is varied and may include inputs to health and social care projects to be delivered via a variety of procurement routes. It will be a key requirement of this Framework to provide Construction Health and Safety / CDM Advisor services for construction projects procured under the NEC3 suite of contracts, ensuring that the Framework Customers are supported and advised in their duties under CDM 2015 Regulations together with providing other Construction Health and Safety advice that may be required.
ESPD Technical Envelope Section on Technical and Professional Ability — Questions 4C.1.2, 4C.6, 4C.8.1 and 4C 8.2 must be answered. The scoring and evaluation mechanism is further described in the Scoring Questions Evaluation Guidance document which is attached to the ESPD. It is the intention of the Authority that those bidders who achieve the six (6) highest scores will be invited to submit a tender unless two or more bidders score the same sixth (6th) highest score in which case all such bidders will be invited to tender.
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. This procurement is not suitable to be divided into lots as that is not considered to be cost effective or time efficient for the type and range of work anticipated.
Bidders must confirm if they hold memberships / accreditation of professional bodies. Minimum requirements for H&S Professional Qualifications are valid membership of the Association of Project Safety (APS) at Incorporated Member (IMAPS) category.
Certified Membership status (CMAPS) level category of APS will be considered as an enhanced qualification as part of the ESPD response evaluation.
Equivalence to these qualifications is acceptable provided that the relevant qualification criteria as specified in the Statement of Requirement are evidenced. Checks on qualifications will be carried out as part of the evaluation process.
This section refers to Section B of Part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) (‘ESPD Scotland’) and covers questions 4B.2 — 4B.6.1 of the ESPD (Scotland) and responses will be assessed on a pass/fail basis:
4B1.2 Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of a minimum of 200,000 GBP for the last 3 years based on submitted accounts for this period.
4B.2.2 Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover of a minimum of 200,000 GBP in the business area covered by the contract for the last 3 years.
4B.3 Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date on which they were set up or started trading.
4B.4 Bidders will be required to state the value(s) for the financial ratio(s) from their last three years accounts and will be evaluated as set down in the CDM Advisor Framework Economic/Financial Standing Evaluation guidance attached to this ESPD Question.
4B.6 — Qualitative Moderation — As a requirement for the financial economic and financial standing evaluation, each potential supplier must complete Question 4B.6 of the ESPD setting out the information as indicated in the instructional attachment to this question.
If the combined weighted score for the ratios in 4B.4 achieved is below 3, the score may be subject to qualitative moderation based on the information provided by the potential supplier in response to 4B.6 and NSS's review of verified information relating to the potential supplier which is publicly available over the year up to the date of the ESPD submission. Such moderation may, subject to the following, result in the scores awarded being amended upwards.
If following the above moderation exercise it is considered appropriate by NSS that a potential supplier should be invited to proceed to the Tender stage of this procurement exercise because in light of the further information considered by NSS, that potential supplier is considered, overall, to have evidenced adequate financial standing, then NSS may make that selection conditional upon the potential supplier providing appropriate performance and financial guarantees from relevant parent company(ies).
NSS therefore reserves the right to require the provision to it of appropriate parent company financial data, and to assess risk as part of the qualitative moderation exercise on the basis of that parent company financial data (which will be assessed on the basis of the tests set out in section 3 above) is acceptable, and that a Parent Company Guarantee, in the form stipulated by NSS, would be entered into by an approved parent company or other guarantor acceptable to NSS.

Eligibility requirements: Bidders must confirm if they hold memberships / accreditation of professional bodies. Minimum requirements for H&S Professional Qualifications are valid membership of the Association of Project Safety (APS) at Incorporated Member (IMAPS) category. Certified Membership status (CMAPS) level category of APS will be considered as an enhanced qualification as part of the ESPD response evaluation. Equivalence to these qualifications is acceptable provided that the relevant qualification criteria as specified in the Statement of Requirement are evidenced. Checks on qualifications will be carried out as part of the evaluation process.

Award value: 800000