Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-12
Buyer: Scottish Water
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 48482000
Estimated value: 2500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-08-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Scottish Water (SW) has embarked upon a technology refresh programme to support its wider business change transformation initiative in regards of embedding a Leading Asset Management Strategy into business as usual. The implication of this strategy sits across 3 major directorates — Strategic Customer Service Planning, Capital Investment and Customer Service Delivery.
SW's Asset Management strategy is about the management of its physical assets and how they deliver service. It covers all of the activities that support the management of assets: strategic planning, capital investment and operations and maintenance. It involves all those people and processes involved with the management of assets.
In order to enable the implementation of the strategy across the business, SW has initiated a significant technology refresh programme encompassing all relevant business functions, viz. Service Risk Management and Investment Planning, Projects and Programmes Delivery, Enterprise Asset Management, plus Collaboration and Business Intelligence capabilities across the board.
The scope of this procurement is to support the Service Risk Management and Investment Planning aspects of the overall scope by selecting a suitable toolset for the same.
A supplier is sought to provide a proprietary yet configurable ‘off-the-shelf’ solution or, a proprietary and configurable solution framework. More than one supplier may be contracted to provide various elements of the solution.
Contracted suppliers will be required to collaborate with SW, and possibly other suppliers, in the implementation and integration of the software.
Contracted suppliers will be required to provide on-going maintenance for the software they have provided.
In the pre-qualification stage, bidders will be required to demonstrate regulatory compliance as well as their capacity and capability to undertake the required services.
Applicants will be expected to be of sufficient financial and economic standing to support the anticipated contract value.
All applicants must complete the financial questions within the pre-qualification questionnaire and tender documents.
Financial standing relevant to the anticipated contract value will be determined by Scottish Water based on the response to the pre-qualification questionnaire and any further financial checks deemed necessary.
The PQQ stage is open to all bidders who can demonstrate regulatory compliance, capacity and capability to undertake the required services.
Scottish Water reserves the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds or other forms of appropriate security.
All prices quoted shall be in Sterling (UK) and all payments shall be made in Sterling (UK). Payment shall be made on the basis of completed services in accordance with the agreed contract rates, schedules and conditions of contract.
In the event of a group of companies submitting an accepted offer it will be necessary for each member of the group to sign an undertaking that each company in the group will be jointly and severally liable for the satisfactory performance of the contract.

Eligibility requirements: In the pre-qualification stage, bidders will be required to demonstrate regulatory compliance as well as their capacity and capability to undertake the required services.

Award value: 2500000