Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-09-06
Buyer: Scottish Prison Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71324000: Quantity surveying services
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The scope of the framework agreement is to provide quantity surveying services to support a wide range, type and complexity of construction, maintenance and refurbishment projects. These range in value from approximately 20 000 GBP to in excess of 50 000 000 GBP. The services are required to be delivered in secure operational establishments, in locations across Scotland.
Following publication of the contract notice, a European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) will be published by SPS and will be made available to bidders, along with SPS's supporting guidance document.
Following the evaluation of the ESPD, shortlisted bidders will be provided with an invitation to tender (ITT). Tender responses will then be evaluated by SPS.
SPS is using an e-tendering system for this procurement exercise. The system is called Public Contract Scotland-Tender (PCS-T) and can be accessed via the Procurement Contracts Scotland (PCS) website. All documentation, including the ESPD (Scotland), is only available in electronic form and can be accessed via your web browser.
Bidders are required to complete the online qualification and technical ESPD (Scotland) Questionnaire on PCS-T.
Bidders 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.
The quantity surveyor will be required to assist and provide advice on financial aspects of building projects from inception to completion across a wide range of building project types and values.
The framework agreement will be available for use by the Scottish Prison Service and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Bidders will also be required to comply with and ensure that their operational instructions processes and procedures and the delivery of the services comply with the relative regulatory legislative obligations including, but not limited to, those relating to health and safety, employment, data protection, quality legislation, human rights, construction (design and management) Regulations 2015, General Data Protection Regulations and, if applicable, Cyber Resillience. These will also be evaluated as part of the award criteria.
For all questions except those which are ‘For information only’ or are indicated to be ‘Pass/Fail’ the technical scores for individual questions will be awarded on a sliding scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is non-compliant and 10 is an answer which is deemed to be fully compliant:
Bidder fails to meet stated minimum criteria for the requirement (this may include not meeting minimum qualifying requirements from the contract notice).
1-3 = Low: overall the bidder’s response is limited and/or only partly relevant, and generally weak/poor against the stated requirements.
The response fails to address some elements of the stated requirements, and/or contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled in an SPS operating context.
4-7 = Medium: the bidder has provided a relevant and generally acceptable response which demonstrates capability against the stated requirement.
Bid is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding of the SPS requirements. Provides assurance that the bidder could reasonably deliver the requirement however some lack of clarity and weaker responses.


Winner: Currie and Brown
Number of bids: 4