Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-04-18
Buyer: University of Edinburgh
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33190000 | 38434540 | 50400000 | 51430000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University invited bids for supply, installation and support of IVC cages, cage racks, air handling units, trolleys, transport racks, change stations and related equipment for the institute for regeneration and repair and other projects. This tender was conducted via Public Contracts Scotland — Tender portal, project_10652 and project_12391 using the open procedure. Bidders self-certified compliance with the conditions of participation via the ESPD (Scotland) in PCS-T.
This tender is not lotted, but is part of a family of related frameworks (Lots), for congruent capital equipment viz.:
OJEU References 2018/S 151-346688, 2018/S 019-038854, 2017/S 242-502531, 2018/S 152-348555, 2018/S 157-359707, 2018/S 125-284428 and 2018/S 013-025128 refer.
University of Edinburgh Institute for regeneration and repair at the Edinburgh BioQuarter site, EH16 4UU plus other locations across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Lot 1: Hotel and Welfare Processing Solutions. This forms part of a family of congruent capital equipment lots with an overall aggregate value of ca. 33 000 000.00 GBP. Other Lots have been issued under separate Contract Notices. The overall CBS equipment procurement comprises:
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 ranked Framework Agreement is for the supply, installation and maintenance of biomedical research equipment for the Institute for Regeneration and Repair, due to complete in 2019, and other capital projects in and around Edinburgh and the Lothians as detailed in the invitation to tender. It will also be used for other ad hoc equipment requirements that might arise during the term of the framework. It was tendered via Public Contracts Scotland — Tender website as a pathfinder procurement, project_10652 and project_12391. Other lots of congruent equipment were tendered via PCS-T as separate projects under the EC0715 frameworks umbrella.
Candidates were required to submit completed non-disclosure agreements before site plans were released via PCS-T.
Bidders and sub-contractors 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: Allentown Europe Ltd
Number of bids: 2