Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-06-02
Buyer: University Of Edinburgh
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33191000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This procurement will be conducted via the Public Contracts Scotland —Tender portal (PCS-T). We will apply a one stage open procedure. Bidders must self-certify their adherence to the conditions of participation via the ESPD (Scotland) in PSC-T, and may be required to submit Means of proof before contract award. Bidders must refer to the specific requirements listed in Section III of this OJEU Contract notice when completing the ESPD in PCS-T.
This Contract is not lotted; however it forms part of a family of congruent capital equipment Lots. Subsequent lots will be issued by separate Contract notices.
University of Edinburgh Institute for regeneration and repair at the Edinburgh BioQuarter site, plus other sites across Edinburgh.
Lot 3 — Steam steriliser (with H2O2). This forms part of a family of congruent capital equipment Lots with an overall aggregate value of ca. 29 897 235,00 GBP. Subsequent Lots will be issued by separate Contract notices. The overall CBS equipment procurement comprises:
— Lot 1: Hotel and welfare processing solutions (bottles, cages, IVC systems, IVC cage racks, IVC transport trolleys, change stations).
— Lot 3: Steam sterilisers (with H2O2) (steriliser with a range of volumes, configurations and facilities).
— Lot 7: Clean and dirty bedding handling systems (with dirty cage robotics) (cage filling station, cage emptying, cage empting robotics, localised laminar flow).
This Framework Agreement will provide a procurement vehicle for equipping the University's new Institute for regeneration and repair as a vanguard project. It will also support other capital infrastructure projects at various sites across Edinburgh, as well as encompassing other ad hoc equipment requirements of a congruent nature which arise during the Contract Term.
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.
This Agreement is for the supply, installation and maintenance of biomedical research equipment for the Institute for Regeneration and Repair, due to complete in 2019. It will be tendered via Public Contracts Scotland — Tender (PCS-T) website as a Pathfinder procurement, project reference 9243. It will also be used to equip future capital projects in and around Edinburgh as detailed in the Invitation to tender. Other Lots of congruent equipment will be tendered via PCS-T as separate Projects using this EC0715 framework as a template.
Candidates are required to submit a completed Non-Disclosure Agreement before site plans are released via PCS-T. The minimum period for receipt of tenders has been extended accordingly.
This procurement includes additional procurement-specific pass/fail minimum requirements, detailed in the Qualification envelope in PCS-T and associated attachment.
Note: Bidders must complete the ESPD (Scotland) to demonstrate adherence to the Exclusion and selection criteria for this procurement.
Bidders and subcontractors engaged in the delivery of this Contract may be excluded if they have not met applicable social, environmental and labour obligations under national, EU, and international law (ESPD section 3D refers). Without prejudice to other relevant duties, suppliers should note this includes obligations for certain organisations under:
— the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklists) Regulations 2010 — This is grounds for mandatory exclusion or termination at any procurement or contract stage.


Winner: Getinge UK
Number of bids: 4