Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-10
Buyer: North Ayrshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311100 | 71322000: Civil engineering design services
Estimated value: 2200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-12-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The successful Supplier will be expected to work in close co-operation with the Council and adopt a positive and flexible approach in delivering the Services. The scope encompasses a range of multi-disciplinary engineering and technical consultancy services: Roads and Structures, Transportation and Traffic, Environmental Engineering, Drainage and Flooding and Geotechnical and Testing.
The successful Supplier will be expected to work in close co-operation with the Council and adopt a positive and flexible approach in delivering the Services. The scope encompasses a range of multi-disciplinary engineering and technical consultancy services. The Framework will be awarded to one supplier only.
Framework Contract duration is 2 years with the option to extend annually for a further 2 years at the discretion of North Ayrshire Council.
If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.
Where it is required within a bidder's country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of 1 000 000 GBP for the last 3 years: 2017, 2016, 2015.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of 1 000 000  GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract: 2017, 2016, 2015.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up/started trading.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders are able to demonstrate a profit in each of the previous 3 years: 2017, 2016, 2015. Failure to demonstrate a profit will result in the bidders exclusion from the evaluation process.
Bidders will be required to provide 3 examples, within the last 3 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4 of this Contract Notice. The experience provided will be for projects of a similar value, size and scope.
Bidders must provide 2 satisfactory references from 2 different contracts within the last 3 years on the reference templates provided in the Instruction to Tenders document. References should be completed and signed by previous customers for contracts of a similar nature, value scope and size. Completed experience & reference templates must be uploaded into the general attachments area of the qualification envelope. If any of the experience examples and references score less than 3 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.
b) Bidders will be required to confirm that their managerial staff have the following relevant educational and professional qualifications:
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract. Please note a maximum of 20 % of each Work Package is permitted to be sub-contracted however this may be increased on a Work Package basis with the approval of North Ayrshire Council.
1. The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent), or

Eligibility requirements: If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established. Where it is required within a bidder's country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service. Bidders must confirm if they hold the particular authorisation or memberships.

Award value: 2200000