Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-24
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Region: East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire mainland
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 45233100: Construction work for highways
Estimated value: 34000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-05-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Design, construction, completion and maintenance of approximately 3.8 kilometres of new single carriageway trunk road to the east of Dalry in North Ayrshire.
The proposed cross section is a combination of Wide Single, Wide Single 2+1 and Differential Acceleration Lane (DAL) which are described in ‘TD 70/08 Design of Wide Single 2+1 Roads’ and ‘TD 27/05 Cross Sections and Headrooms’ within the UK Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) Volume 6.
Works include, but are not limited to, provision of new carriageway to provide single carriageway standard, an agricultural underpass, a viaduct, an overbridge, earthworks, drainage, including Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), road markings, signing, street lighting, vehicle restraint systems, accommodation works, service diversions, environmental mitigation measures, mine consolidation works, and following completion a 5 year period of maintenance for landscaping, replacement of road markings and defect rectification will apply. However, the successful tenderer will not be required to carry out ongoing cyclic maintenance, which shall instead be carried out by a third party appointed by the Scottish Ministers.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=436342
To be set out within the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue (‘ITPD’) documents, the Invitation to Submit Final Tender (‘ISFT’) documents and the contract which the successful participant will enter into with the Scottish Ministers (‘A737 Dalry Bypass Contract’). Economic operators will be required to accept any requirement to provide collateral warranties, parent company guarantees and a retention bond which are set out in the A737 Dalry Bypass Contract. A Retention Bond in lieu of retention will be an option available to Tenderers.
The A737 Dalry Bypass Contract will be a fixed price contract with payments by instalments on interim valuations based on part completed milestones. Details of payments and protocols for establishing milestones shall be provided within the ITPD documents, the ISFT documents and the A737 Dalry Bypass Contract.
If the successful tenderer is a consortium, the Scottish Ministers shall require each member to be jointly and severally liable pursuant to the A737 Dalry Bypass Contract. The Scottish Ministers may require the consortium to form a legal entity before entering into the A737 Dalry Bypass Contract.
The successful economic operator shall be required to support the Scottish Ministers economic and social regeneration objectives. Accordingly, the successful economic operator shall be required to comply with social and environmental conditions which shall be included in the A737 Dalry Bypass Contract.
For example, the successful economic operator shall be required to secure the creation of a specific number of training opportunities and a specified number of employment opportunities for unemployed persons in connection with the A737 Dalry Bypass Contract.
Similarly, the successful economic operator shall be required to advertise all subcontractor and supplier opportunities through the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk which have not already been committed to prior to the contract commencement date. Such opportunities shall be procured in a fair, open, transparent and competitive process proportionate to the nature and value of the requirement.
Economic Operators will be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012, on the basis of information provided in response to a Prequalification Questionnaire (‘PQQ’), which forms part of the prequalification document (Refer to Section VI.3).
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described in detail in the PQQ. The financial information received as part of each PQQ submission shall be evaluated and scored out of 50 by allocating a score against nine individual economic and financial standing evaluation criteria ratio. The maximum cumulative score resulting from the summative of the nine economic and financial standing evaluation criteria ratio is 50 marks. A PQQ submission shall be marked as a FAIL and will not be considered further if the score achieved is less than 50 percent of the available marks (i.e. less than 25 marks).
Similarly, a PQQ submission shall be marked as a FAIL if the economic operator or group of economic operators do not have or are not able to commit to obtain the required level of insurance.
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of technical capacity or professional ability. These are described in detail in the PQQ and can be summarised as:
a) demonstration of experience of working on projects of similar works, scope, size and/or complexity (the requirements are set out in full in the PQQ);

Eligibility requirements: Economic Operators will be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012, on the basis of information provided in response to a Prequalification Questionnaire (‘PQQ’), which forms part of the prequalification document (Refer to Section VI.3). As III.2.1. Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described in detail in the PQQ. The financial information received as part of each PQQ submission shall be evaluated and scored out of 50 by allocating a score against nine individual economic and financial standing evaluation criteria ratio. The maximum cumulative score resulting from the summative of the nine economic and financial standing evaluation criteria ratio is 50 marks. A PQQ submission shall be marked as a FAIL and will not be considered further if the score achieved is less than 50 percent of the available marks (i.e. less than 25 marks). Similarly, a PQQ submission shall be marked as a FAIL if the economic operator or group of economic operators do not have or are not able to commit to obtain the required level of insurance. As III.2.1). Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of technical capacity or professional ability. These are described in detail in the PQQ and can be summarised as: a) demonstration of experience of working on projects of similar works, scope, size and/or complexity (the requirements are set out in full in the PQQ); b) demonstration of quality, environmental and health and safety management systems (the requirements are set out in full in the PQQ); c) demonstration of competence to be able to perform delegated duties in accordance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, together with the provision of written undertakings required pursuant to these regulations; and d) in respect of the questions on demonstration of relevant experience in Section 5.4 of the PQQ, economic operators are required to score 50 per cent or more of the available maximum weighted evaluation score for each question.
As III.2.1. Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described in detail in the PQQ. The financial information received as part of each PQQ submission shall be evaluated and scored out of 50 by allocating a score against nine individual economic and financial standing evaluation criteria ratio. The maximum cumulative score resulting from the summative of the nine economic and financial standing evaluation criteria ratio is 50 marks. A PQQ submission shall be marked as a FAIL and will not be considered further if the score achieved is less than 50 percent of the available marks (i.e. less than 25 marks). Similarly, a PQQ submission shall be marked as a FAIL if the economic operator or group of economic operators do not have or are not able to commit to obtain the required level of insurance.
As III.2.1.
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described in detail in the PQQ. The financial information received as part of each PQQ submission shall be evaluated and scored out of 50 by allocating a score against nine individual economic and financial standing evaluation criteria ratio. The maximum cumulative score resulting from the summative of the nine economic and financial standing evaluation criteria ratio is 50 marks. A PQQ submission shall be marked as a FAIL and will not be considered further if the score achieved is less than 50 percent of the available marks (i.e. less than 25 marks). Similarly, a PQQ submission shall be marked as a FAIL if the economic operator or group of economic operators do not have or are not able to commit to obtain the required level of insurance.
As III.2.1). Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of technical capacity or professional ability. These are described in detail in the PQQ and can be summarised as: a) demonstration of experience of working on projects of similar works, scope, size and/or complexity (the requirements are set out in full in the PQQ); b) demonstration of quality, environmental and health and safety management systems (the requirements are set out in full in the PQQ); c) demonstration of competence to be able to perform delegated duties in accordance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, together with the provision of written undertakings required pursuant to these regulations; and d) in respect of the questions on demonstration of relevant experience in Section 5.4 of the PQQ, economic operators are required to score 50 per cent or more of the available maximum weighted evaluation score for each question.
As III.2.1).
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of technical capacity or professional ability. These are described in detail in the PQQ and can be summarised as: a) demonstration of experience of working on projects of similar works, scope, size and/or complexity (the requirements are set out in full in the PQQ); b) demonstration of quality, environmental and health and safety management systems (the requirements are set out in full in the PQQ); c) demonstration of competence to be able to perform delegated duties in accordance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, together with the provision of written undertakings required pursuant to these regulations; and d) in respect of the questions on demonstration of relevant experience in Section 5.4 of the PQQ, economic operators are required to score 50 per cent or more of the available maximum weighted evaluation score for each question.