Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-12-10
Buyer: The City of Edinburgh Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71530000: Construction consultancy services
Estimated value: 271000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-01-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The City of Edinburgh Council requires professional services design support for the following 2 projects within its Active Travel Investment Programme: (1) Powderhall Railway Path (2) Dundee Street and Fountainbridge Cycleways Project. Please see attached documents for further information.
Project 1 focuses on the development of the Powderhall Railway solum into an off-carriageway active travel corridor. Please see Appendix 1 for further information.
Project 2 focuses on the development of a high-quality cycling infrastructure on the Dundee Street/Fountainbridge corridor. Please see Appendix 2 for further information.
The overall design team will consist of numerous parties and each party will be required to have the relevant professional or trade register or membership which is applicable to their trade.
Tenderers are required to have the following minimum ‘general’ annual turnovers for the last 2 financial years:
Where a tenderer does not have an annual turnover of this value, the Council may exclude the tenderer from the competition or may apply discretion seeking supporting evidence to determine the tenderer’s suitability to proceed in the competition.
The formula for calculating a tenderer’s current ratio is current assets divided by current liabilities. The acceptable range for each financial ratio is greater than 1.10. Where a tenderer’s current ratio is less than the acceptable value, the Council may exclude the tenderer from the competition or may apply discretion seeking supporting evidence to determine the tenderer’s suitability to proceed in the competition.
Tenderers are required to hold, or commit to obtaining prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Where a tenderer does not hold or commit to obtaining the types and levels of insurance indicated, the Council will exclude the tenderer from the competition.
It is a mandatory requirement that tendering organisations with more than 5 employees have in place a Health and Safety Policy which is approved at a senior level within the organisation and is reviewed regularly. Bidders should confirm that this condition has been met within the response to this question. Where a bidder does not have a Health and Safety Policy and is required to do so, the Council may exclude the bidder from the competition.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland website at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=606341
The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.
Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361
Organisations are encouraged to secure positive outcomes that will benefit the community in which they operate. Further information can be found in the Specification and tenderers' submissions.

Eligibility requirements: The overall design team will consist of numerous parties and each party will be required to have the relevant professional or trade register or membership which is applicable to their trade.

Award value: 271000