Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-03-08
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 09300000 | 09320000 | 09321000 | 09322000 | 09323000
Estimated value: 300000000 GBP
Award criteria: Technical, Price

Technical requirements: Technical
Price
The Framework will cover NDEE retrofit, in its broadest sense, to public sector buildings and grounds including a combination of building fabric, building environmental services systems and their control (e.g. heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, water etc.) and local energy generation (including combined heat and power systems and district heating systems).
The Framework has one lot, comprising multiple framework suppliers each able to deliver energy efficiency works and services via a range of technical solutions that will provide guaranteed energy performance over the term of the call-off contract awarded under the Framework.
It is anticipated that long-term call-off contracts will be placed under the framework in instances where framework suppliers are to provide or procure funding for the services (potentially for up to 25 years).
Framework suppliers will be expected to be able to provide or procure finance for projects, as necessary.
Framework suppliers will be expected to have the capacity to provide the services, via supply chain, across all regions of Scotland including the Highlands and Islands.
The Framework Agreement will be available for use by the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross-border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Police Authority, Scottish health boards or special health boards, all NHS Scotland, The Integrated Joint Boards established further to the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Act 2014, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, Student Loans Company Limited, the Forestry Commission, the Commissioner of Northern Lighthouse operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Business Stream Ltd, the Business Gateway National Unit at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the foregoing. In addition to the contracting authorities listed, the framework agreement will be available to charities entered on the Scottish Charity Register and voluntary organisations entered on the Membership Database of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. Information about agencies of the Scottish Ministers and offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices is available at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/public-bodies-guide/government-scotland Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies are listed at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies Information about the Review of Public Procurement in Scotland and links to the other Centres of Expertise are available at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Procurement.
It is intended that social considerations will be taken into account within the framework procurement process, in accordance with Regulation 39 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012.
Economic operators who submit a tender shall be notified of the outcome of the procurement process, such notification will contain among other information, a summary of the reasons why the economic operator was unsuccessful. The notification will incorporate a ‘standstill period’ of a minimum of 10 clear calendar days (or a minimum of 15 if the communication method used is not electronic) before conclusion of contracts. The bringing of court proceedings during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the contract until court proceedings are determined, discounted or disposed of, or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The remedies that may be awarded by the courts before the contract has been entered include the setting aside of the decision to award the contract to the winning tenderer. The bringing of court proceedings against the Scottish Government after the contract has been entered into will not affect the contract unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contract (Scotland) Regulations 2012 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the courts where the contract has been entered into are limited to the award of damages. Economic operators are entitled to write to the Scottish Government after receipt of the notification should they require further clarification. The Scottish Government will respond within 15 days of such a written request, but it should be noted that receipt by the Scottish Government of such request during the standstill period may not prevent Scottish Government from awarding the contract following the expiry of the standstill period.


Winner: National Records of Scotland
Number of bids: 12