Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-10-09
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 45220000 | 45221100: Bridge construction works | 45221110 | 45221111 | 45233000: Construction work for highways and roads
Estimated value: 690000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-11-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Servicios de reparación, mantenimiento y servicios asociados relacionados con carreteras y otros equipos
Services de réparation, d'entretien et services connexes relatifs au transport routier et à d'autres équipements
Serviços de reparação e manutenção e serviços conexos relacionados com estradas e outros equipamentos
Servicii de reparare şi de întreţinere şi servicii conexe pentru transportul rutier şi pentru alte echipamente
— design and supervision of renewal and improvement works and such other work on the specified trunk roads within the unit.
The contract will include indicative maximum value thresholds for categories of ordered work. These thresholds are subject to change during the contract based on the performance of the service provider.
Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Ministers has identified the requirement to appoint a suitably experienced economic operator to operate the Scottish Trunk Road Network management contract — South West Unit (the “contract”).
This exercise is tranche 1 of a 2 tranche activity which covers all 4 units within the Scottish Trunk Road Network:
Tranche 1: focuses on the South Units with this notice being for the South West Unit. The procurement for the South East unit is covered under a separate contract notice and can be found on public contracts Scotland;
Tranche 2: will comprise of the North Units and will be issued in 2020. A maximum of 2 units can be won across the network and will be limited to one in the South and one in the North. For clarity and the avoidance of doubt in respect of the award restriction, an economic operator that has submitted a tender includes any person or entity involved in the tranche 1 procurement or tranche 2 procurement as parent undertaking in terms of section 1 162 of the Companies Act 2006, any member of the group of companies of which the parent undertaking forms part, lead bidder, consortium or JV member, or any other reliant entity whose capacity in terms of technical and professional ability and/or economic and financial standing, is relied upon in terms of Regulation 64 of the Regulation.
Transport Scotland will manage the procurement process on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. In the event of the contract award, the contract will be entered into between the Scottish Ministers and the successful tenderer.
The initial contract term is 8 years with an option to extend for up to a further 4 years. The estimated value of the contract including any extension period is 690 000 000 GBP. The contract terms and conditions will be based upon ICE 5th generation which has been amended by transport Scotland. Each successful economic operator shall be invited to submit a tender on the same contract terms.
The contractor will be procured through a competitive tender procedure, in accordance with the competitive dialogue procedure as provided for in the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Due to project complexity, the contract requires to be performed by a single contractor and as such shall not be divided into lots.
To be considered for this contract economic operators are required to complete the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) in accordance with this contract notice. Economic operators shall be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, on the basis of information they have provided within the ESPD.
The ESPD can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk).

Eligibility requirements: An economic operator participating on its own and which does not rely on the capacities of other entities in order to meet the selection criteria, must fill out one ESPD. An economic operator participating on its own but relying on the capacities of one or more other entities must submit to the Contracting Authority an ESPD on its behalf together with a separate ESPD on behalf of each of the entities being relied upon and setting out the relevant information. Finally, where a group of economic operators, including temporary associations, participate together in the procurement procedure, a separate ESPD setting out the information required under Parts II to IV must be given for each of the participating economic operators (excluding 4C.1 / 4.C.2) Qualifications and Experience: Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) It is intended that the successful tenderer shall fulfill the duties of Principal Contractor and Principal Designer under CDM 2015. Therefore, economic operators shall be required to satisfy the Scottish Ministers as to their competence resources and willingness to be appointed as Principal Contractor and Principal Designer and fulfill those duties in accordance with CDM 2015 (refer to III.1.3)

Award value: 690000000