Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-07-15
Buyer: Scottish Water
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 50610000
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Scottish Water is looking to partner with an alarm maintenance industry specialist supplier to ensure that its operational water assets are protected throughout its operating area.
Specified Scottish Water operational assets which have been installed with the Sentinor ‘watercress’© security system (consisting of analyser/control panel; seismic sensors) and matched non-system sensors.
Other specified Scottish Water operational assets which have been installed with conventional intruder detection systems (consisting of control panel (mostly Honeywell ‘Galaxy’©) and matched sensors).
Other specified Scottish Water operational assets which have been installed with a variety of fence-mounted perimeter intrusion detection systems.
To implement a pan-Scotland reactive maintenance response for the above systems such that all breakdowns on security system equipment affected by this contract are attended to within a specified time of the breakdown being reported to the supplier and, where achievable, rectified within the same period. Specifically;
For specified sites (mostly based on Cortech Datalog© security management integration software) the reactive response time will be 4 hours.
The supplier must demonstrate prior practical multi-site experience of conducting security system maintenance in accordance with manufacturers’ schedules of maintenance tasks and supplementary schedules as determined by Scottish Water.
The supplier must demonstrate practical multi-site experience with the installation, maintenance and operation of the Sentinor ‘watercress’© system.
The supplier must demonstrate practical multi-site experience with the installation, maintenance and operation of the Cortech ‘Datalog’© system.
Ideally, suppliers should have experience of working within the water services industry, preferably with practical experience of working over live water assets.
Suppliers must have all engineering maintenance technicians screened to BS 7858 or UK Government National Security Vetting procedures. Consideration will be shown to suppliers without either of these criteria, if they can show their pre-employment screening processes are to an acceptable equivalent level providing they have the necessary experience of the WATERCRESS© system.
Suppliers must demonstrate they hold either NSI Gold or Silver certification for all the following areas; ‘Electronic Security Systems’ (Intruder Alarm, CCTV and Access Control); Or SSAIB certification for ‘Electronic Security Systems’ (includes: Intruder Detection Systems; CCTV Surveillance; CCTV Surveillance — Remotely Monitored and Detector Activated; Access Control).
Suppliers must demonstrate they have extensive experience with BSEN50131 compliant Intruder Detection Systems.
Suppliers should have demonstrable experience with Cortech Datalog security management systems; including ability to provide Cortech drawings/editing updates.
Suppliers should have demonstrable design, installation and maintenance experience with CCTV systems; including integration with PIDS.


Number of bids: 1