Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-09-23
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 45220000 | 45221111 | 45233000: Construction work for highways and roads | 45233100: Construction work for highways | 45233110
Estimated value: 900000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-10-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The provision of integrated network management; routine, winter and emergency maintenance; renewal and improvement works and other such works; design and supervision of renewal and improvement works and such other work on the specified trunk roads within the Unit.
The contract will include indicative maximum value thresholds for categories of ordered work. These thresholds are subject to change during the contract based on the performance of the service provider. For strategic reasons connected with wider roads procurement requirements, contract coverage of:
(ii) of particular sections, of the A9 trunk road for the full term of the contract, is not confirmed at this stage. Further information shall be included in the tender documents.
Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Ministers have identified the requirement to appoint a suitably experienced economic operator to operate the Scottish Trunk Road Network Management Contract — North West Unit. As noted in II.1.4) above, for strategic reasons connected with wider roads procurement requirements, contract coverage of:
(ii) of particular sections, of the A9 trunk road for the full term of the contract, is not confirmed at this stage. Further information shall be included in the tender documents.
This exercise is Tranche 2 of a two tranche procurement activity which collectively covers all four geographical Units within the Scottish Trunk Road Network. Tranche 1 focused on both the South East and South West Units with both contracts awarded in March 2020. This second tranche focuses on the North Units of the Scottish Trunk Road Network. The procurement covered under this contract notice is for the North West Unit only. The procurement for the North East Unit is covered under a separate contract notice and can also be found on Public Contracts Scotland.
Tenderers should note that a maximum of two Units can be won across the network, however, this is limited to one in the South and one in the North. For clarity and the avoidance of doubt in respect of this award restriction, an economic operator that has submitted a tender includes any person or entity involved in the Tranche 1 Procurement or Tranche 2 Procurement as parent undertaking in terms of section 1162 of the Companies Act 2006, any member of the group of companies of which the parent undertaking forms part, lead bidder, consortium or JV member or any other reliant entity whose capacity in terms of technical and professional ability and/or economic and financial standing, is relied upon in terms of Regulation 64 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
The initial contract term is 8 years with options to extend by up to a further 4 years. The estimated value of the contract over 12 years including such extensions is GBP 900 000 000.
The scope of works will include, but is not limited to: provision of integrated network management; routine, winter and emergency maintenance; renewal and improvement works and other such works; design and supervision of renewal and improvement works and such other work on the specified trunk roads within the Unit. The contract will include indicative maximum value thresholds for categories of ordered works. These thresholds are subject to change during the contract based on the performance of the service provider. Further information on the requirements and objectives of the contract can be found in the attached supplementary document reference ‘Preliminary Information Document – North Units.’ The information contained in the document is preliminary and will be supplemented with further information at tender stage.
To be considered for this contract economic operators are required to complete the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) in accordance with this contract notice. Economic operators shall be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, on the basis of information they have provided within the ESPD. The ESPD can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk).
No warranty or representation of any kind is given as to the accuracy or completeness of such information. The Scottish Ministers, Transport Scotland and their advisers shall not be liable for any errors or omissions or lack of specificity in such information. Any reliance on or use of any information contained within the document is entirely at the risk of the economic operator.
It is intended that the contract will be in place for an initial period of 8 years with an option to extend for a further period of up to 4 years.
It is intended that five economic operators be invited to participate in dialogue. These economic operators shall be those who have:
(a) minimum standards of eligibility — provided evidence of working on specified types of projects over a specified value, and
(b) technical or professional ability — provided evidence demonstrating an acceptable level of technical or professional ability;

Eligibility requirements: An economic operator participating on its own and which does not rely on the capacities of other entities in order to meet the selection criteria, must fill out one ESPD. An economic operator participating on its own but relying on the capacities of one or more other entities must submit to the contracting authority an ESPD on its behalf together with a separate ESPD on behalf of each of the entities being relied upon and setting out the relevant information. Finally, where a group of economic operators, including temporary associations, participate together in the procurement procedure, a separate ESPD setting out the information required under Parts II to IV must be given for each of the participating economic operators (excluding 4C.1/4C.2) Qualifications and experience Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015). It is intended that, the successful tenderer shall fulfil the duties of principal contractor and principal designer under CDM 2015. Therefore, economic operators shall be required to satisfy the Scottish Ministers as to their competence, resources and willingness to be appointed as principal contractor and principal designer and fulfil those duties in accordance with CDM 2015 (refer to III.1.3).

Award value: 900000000