Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-05-25
Buyer: CalMac Ferries Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 79212000 | 79212200
Submission deadline: 2020-06-19
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.
This contract shall operate for a term of 3 years with an option to extend for up to an additional two 12 month periods. The indicative value of this contract is in the region of GBP 105 000 per annum (GBP 525 000 over the full term of 5 years).
The procurement will be conducted through the use of the competitive procedure with negotiation. All queries about this procurement must be made via the PCS-T messaging system.
Statements including the specific requirements can be found within section III.1.3) of the contract notice.
Part III and Section B and D of Part IV will be scored on a pass/fail basis and section C of part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) will be scored in the following way:
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.
The responses to the questions at section III.1.3) of the contract notice will be weighted in the following way. Please see ESPD (Scotland) Question 4C.1.2: 90 %. 4C.6: 10 %.