Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-11-18
Buyer: The Common Services Agency, more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland (NSS)
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 42961300 | 48000000 | 50111100 | 72000000 | 72110000
Estimated value: 278750 GBP
Award criteria: Functional Requirements, Technical Requirements, Price

Technical requirements: Functional Requirements
Technical Requirements
Price
The Common Services Agency, more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) on its own behalf and on behalf of all entitles constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (Health Boards) has been commissioned by the Scottish Government to form a national strategic function for Transport/Fleet Management, which will support local Fleet operations, operate to best in class standards, reducing variation, and deliver efficiency savings for future investment in front line patient services.
The function will initially serve all Health Boards but in the future NSS Fleet Management operation may provide support to newly formed partnerships pursuant of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Scotland Act, which the contract may also serve.
NSS is seeking to award contracts to a Supplier[s] for the supply of managed Telematics services and provision of a National Fleet Management System and associated services. This procurement was split into two Lots described in further detail below:
No tenders were submitted in response to the restricted procedure. NSS continued under Regulation 33.(1)(a) negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice, without substantial alteration to the initial conditions of the contract, and with all short-listed Suppliers that were invited to tender under the restricted procedure.
The Contract Notice was originally published 11 August 2015 for two Lots: 1. Telematics Services, and 2. National Fleet Management System. Lot 1 was abandoned when Crown Commercial Service's Vehicle Telematics Framework Agreement was announced.
Lot 2 National Fleet Management System continued under restricted procedure with a full requirement and contract.
The Authority will notify economic operators who submitted a tender of its decision to make an award of the contract(s). In respect of unsuccessful economic operators, such notification will contain, amongst 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 calendar days if the communication method used is not electronic) between the date on which the Authority dispatches the notice and the date on which the Authority proposes to conclude the contract(s). The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the contract(s) until the court proceedings are determined, discontinued 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(s) has been entered into include the setting aside of the decision to award the contract(s) to the winning tenderer. The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority after the contract(s) has been entered into will not affect the contract(s) unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the courts where the contract(s) has been entered into are limited to the award of damages. Economic operators are entitled to write to the Authority after receipt of the notification should they require further clarification. The Authority will respond within 15 days of such a written request, but it should be noted that receipt by the Authority of such request during the standstill period may not prevent the Authority from awarding the contract(s) following the expiry of the standstill period. Where an economic operator is dissatisfied with the Authority's response to its request for clarification, or considers that the contract(s) has been concluded in breach of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012, such economic operator is advised promptly to seek independent legal advice.


Winner: The Scottish Government Core Directorates
Number of bids: 2