Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-01
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71300000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311100 | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 79212000
Estimated value: 40000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-01-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: A service to provide an audit and monitoring service in relation to the technical, financial, and commercial management of the maintenance and improvement of the Scottish Trunk Road Network. The service provider will be expected to audit, monitor, review and provide advice on the following Transport Scotland contracts to ensure that contractual duties are being satisfied:
1) All operating company contracts covering Scottish Trunk Road Network (South West Unit, North West Unit, South East Unit, North East Unit);
4) Traffic Scotland systems contract. Other supplier contracts may be added to this list during the contract period.
This procurement competition is for the provision of technical and financial auditing and monitoring services, and the provision of technical and business advice relating to the management and maintenance of the Scottish trunk road network. Interested parties should note that a preliminary information document has been uploaded to 'Additional Documents'. This document provides additional information regarding the service to be delivered and the procurement process. The information contained in the document is preliminary and will be supplemented with further information at tender stage.
The initial contract term is 6 years with options to extend by up to a further 4 years. The estimated value of the contract over 10 years including such extensions is GBP 40 000 000.
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)
No warranty or representation of any kind is given as to the accuracy or completeness of such information. The Scottish Ministers, Transport Scotland and their advisers shall not be liable for any errors or omissions or lack of specificity in such information. Any reliance on or use of any information contained within the document is entirely at the risk of the economic operator.
It is intended that the Contract will be in place for an initial period of 6 years with options to extend up to a maximum of a further 4 years. Extensions will not be restricted to whole years.
It is intended that 5 economic operators will be invited to tender stage. These economic operators shall be those who have:
(iii) technical or professional ability — provided evidence demonstrating an acceptable level of technical or professional ability;
(vi) achieved the first, second, third, fourth or fifth highest combined weighted scores in respect of technical or professional ability calculated in accordance with the responses to Statements (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h) (refer to Section III.1.3).
However, if an economic operator has not submitted a compliant submission as described in (i) above, failed in respect of either (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) above, then that economic operator shall be excluded from the ranking of scores described in (vi) as above.
Economic operators shall be required to self-certify their adherence to the above selection criteria via the ESPD.
Transport Scotland (TS) will manage the procurement process on behalf of the Scottish Ministers (SMs). In the event of the contract award, the contract will be entered into between the SMs and the successful tenderer.
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.

Eligibility requirements: List and brief description of conditions: 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.1/4C.2)

Award value: 40000000