Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-30
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 60400000: Air transport services | 60410000: Scheduled air transport services | 60420000: Non-scheduled air transport services
Estimated value: 20000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-06-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The provision of air services between Glasgow Airport and Campbeltown, Tiree and Barra supported by subsidy through Public Service Obligations.
Scottish Ministers objectives for transport are to promote sustainable economic growth through a safe, integrated and efficient transport network. The employer has identified a continuing need for the provision of air services between Glasgow Airport and Campbeltown, Tiree and Barra supported by subsidy through public service obligations.
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. To determine these standards, economic operators shall:
(a) in response to ESPD, Question Ref. 4B.1a provide the specified annual turnover for the last 2 years of trading, or for the period which is available if trading for less than 2 years;
(b) in response to ESPD, Question Ref. 4B.6 provide the name, value and/or range of NINE financial criteria for the last two years of trading, or for the period which is available if trading for less than 2 years; and
(c) in response to ESPD, Question Ref. 4B.5 confirm they already have or can commit to obtain, prior to commencement of the contract the required levels of insurance.
In addition to the information requested under (a) and (b), economic operators are required to provide a link/copies of the associated annual accounts as filed at Companies House (or equivalent if not a UK registered company) for the last 2 years of trading, or for the period which is available if less than 2 years.
This information has been requested to enable Transport Scotland to perform their own assessment and confirm the financial ratios submitted. Ultimately, ensuring the correct score is allocated, and to ensure no misinterpretation. Where there exist differences in ratios, between those provided and those calculated by Transport Scotland, clarification will be sought.
An additional document can be found as a download associated with this Contract Notice which shows the economic and financial standing: evaluation criteria ratios and scoring.
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described below:
The financial information received under ESPD, Question Ref. 4B.6 shall be evaluated and scored out of 50 by allocating a score against 9 individual economic and financial standing evaluation criteria, namely:
The individual scores shall be weighted, with the most recent (“Year 1”) financial statements weighted at 67 % and the previous (“Year 2”) statements being weighted at 33 %, to form an aggregated score for each of the 9 criteria over the 2 years.
The maximum cumulative score resulting from the summation of the nine economic and financial standing aggregated scores shall be 50 marks. A submission shall be marked as a fail and will not be considered further if the score achieved by a single economic operator or a group of economic operators is less than 50 %of the available marks. The scoring mechanism can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
Where the submission has been submitted by a group of economic operators, the information submitted by each group member will be evaluated in the proportion of the percentage shareholdings or percentage equity/interest of each group member and a score determined for such group of economic operators on that basis.
In response to Question Ref. 4B.5 economic operators must confirm they already have or can commit to obtain, prior to the commencement the following levels of insurance:


Award value: 20000000