Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-11
Buyer: National Galleries of Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 60000000 | 60100000 | 60400000: Air transport services | 63100000 | 92521000
Estimated value: 170000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-12-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Provision of specialised fine art transport services for the packing, transport and storage of works of art for temporary exhibition. Services will include transport arrangements for lenders accompanying works of art. The suppliers will be expected to provide high security, environmentally controlled storage and warehousing for works of art for exhibition loans from UK and international private lenders and institutions. Contractors are responsible for collection from lenders, including crating and packing where required, and dispersal after the end of the exhibition. This service will require contractors to have a range of facilities and appropriate expertise in road transport services, air transport services, cargo handling and storage services for fine art consignments. More details can be found in the Description of Works summary attached to this notice.
This is a 2 stage procurement process. A short-list of contractors will be made from the evaluation of the submitted ESPD's. These contractors will then be sent the tender documents. From the completed tender documents a contractor will be selected based on price and quality.
The shortlisted contractors will need to demonstrate that they have the required skills and experience in specialised fine art transport services. They must demonstrate that they have carried out work as described in II.1.4) and the attached Description of Works.
— Statements including the specific requirements can be found within section III.1.2) and III.1.3) of the Contract Notice.
Part III and Section B of Part IV will be scored on a pass/fail basis, and Section C of Part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) will be scored in the following way:
0 — Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate previous experience/capability relevant to this criterion.
1 — Poor. Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response shows some elements of relevance to the criterion but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate previous relevant experience/capacity/capability.
2 — Acceptable. Response is relevant and acceptable. The response demonstrates broad previous experience, knowledge and skills/capacity/capability but may lack in some aspects of similarity e.g. previous experience, knowledge or skills may not be of a similar nature.
3 — Good. Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good amount of experience, knowledge or skills/capacity/capability relevant to providing similar services to similar clients.
4 — Excellent. Response is completely relevant and excellent overall. The response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates thorough experience, knowledge or skills/capacity/capability relevant to providing similar services to similar clients.
The responses to the questions of Section III.1.3) of the Contract Notice will be weighted the following way: Please see ESPD (Scotland)
4C.1.2: Weighting 90 %. If you fail to reach a good score of 3 your tender will not be considered further, 4C.2 1 %, 4C.6 1 %, 4C.6.1 1 %, 4C.8.1 2 %, 4C.8.2 2 %, 4C.9 2 %, 4C.10 1 %.
Economic operators 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.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types of insurance indicated below
The bidder is required to confirm that (to the best of their knowledge) there are no material post balance sheet events or other business issues arising since the date of the last audited financial statements that materially impact the economic and financial standing of the economic operator.


Award value: 170000