Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-03-27
Buyer: University of Edinburgh
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 38000000 | 38434540 | 39330000 | 42924720 | 51430000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This contract is for the supply, installation and support of fumigation systems (decontamination chambers, VHP generators and pass-through hatches) for the institute for regeneration and repair and other projects. This tender was conducted via Public Contracts Scotland — Tender portal (PCS-T), project_11083, using a 1-stage open procedure. Bidders self-certified adherence to the conditions of participation via the ESPD (Scotland) in PSC-T.
This contract is not lotted, but is part of a family of capital equipment lots. Lots 1) (Hotel and Welfare Solutions); 2) (Cage and Rack Washers); 3) (Sterilisers); 5) (Containment Solutions — Downdraft Surgical Tables); 6) (Air Showers); and 7) (Bedding Systems) have been published, OJEU References 2018/S 151-346688, 2018/S 019-038854, 2017/S 242-502531, 2018/S 157-359707, 2018/S 125-284428 and 2018/S 013-025128.
University of Edinburgh Institute for regeneration and repair at the Edinburgh BioQuarter site, EH16 4UU, plus other sites across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Lot 4 — Fumigation systems (VHP decontamination chambers, VHP generators, pass-through chambers). These form part of a family of congruent capital equipment lots with an overall aggregate value of ca. 33 090 789,00 GBP. The overall CBS equipment procurement comprises:
Lot 1: Hotel and Welfare Processing Solutions (bottles, cages, IVC systems, IVC cage racks, IVC transport trolleys, change stations) — already published;
Lot 3: Steam Sterilisers (with H2O2) (steriliser with a range of volumes, configurations and facilities) — already published;
Lot 4: Fumigation systems (e.g. VHP chambers, integral and stand alone VHP generators, pass-through hatches and chambers;
Lot 7: Clean and dirty bedding handling systems (with dirty cage robotics) (cage filling station, cage emptying, cage emptying robotics, localised laminar flow) — already published.
This Framework Agreement will provide a procurement vehicle for equipping the University's new institute for regeneration and repair as a vanguard project. It will also support other capital infrastructure projects at various sites across Edinburgh and the Lothians, as well as encompassing other ad-hoc equipment requirements of a congruent nature which arise during the contract term.
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 agreement is for the supply, installation and maintenance of biomedical research equipment for the institute for regeneration and repair, due to complete in 2020. It was tendered via Public Contracts Scotland — Tender (PCS-T) website as a pathfinder procurement, project_11083. It will also be used to equip future capital projects in and around Edinburgh as detailed in the invitation to tender. Other lots of congruent equipment were tendered via PCS-T as separate Projects using this EC0715 framework as a template.
Note: Bidders completed the ESPD (Scotland) to demonstrate adherence to the exclusion and selection criteria for this procurement.
Bidders and subcontractors engaged in the delivery of this contract may be excluded if they have not met applicable social, environmental and labour obligations under national, EU, and international law (ESPD section 3D refers). Without prejudice to other relevant duties, suppliers should note this includes obligations for certain organisations under:
— the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010 — this is grounds for mandatory exclusion or termination at any procurement or contract stage.
At any stage, bidders and/or sub-contractors may be required to provide statements and means of proof demonstrating their compliance with these obligations or the reliability of their self-cleansing measures, including the annual statement as provided for by Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act.


Winner: Tecniplast UK Ltd
Number of bids: 3