Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-07-27
Buyer: Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Region: Sheffield
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 09300000 | 31000000 | 31527260 | 31682000 | 42500000
Estimated value: 1000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Provision of Energy Related Services and addressing of Backlog Maintenance as a performance contract.
SHSC are looking for a preferred partner to undertake a review of their estate and subsequent implementation of more energy efficient technologies and eliminate as much of the high risk backlog maintenance as possible. All of which will be undertaken as an Energy and/or Backlog Maintenance Performance based contract where potential guarantees are required on the performance of the service, either in kilowatt hours and or cash terms and or Carbon terms.
Due to the extremely tight time-scales for implementation, SHSC requires the preferred partner to provide as much of a financial return as possible, through sustainable service delivery. The estate at SHSC is complex part of the estate may be reduced, and there is a legacy of plant which has passed its natural life. The key objectives for SHSC are to reduce operational costs, energy consumption and carbon emissions.
SHSC wish to use the competitive dialogue procedure to establish the best course of action for the trust, given the complexities in relation to the estate, the subsequent strategy and requirements and overall operational needs.
Bidders need to ensure availability of resources to undertake site visits and dialogue for week commencing 25.9.2015.
Bidders may need to provide guarantees over a set period of time, with the term of the agreement not exceeding the maximum of 20 years, which may look to transfer a proportion of the risk to the successful preferred partner.
Bidders should note that SHSC have engaged Electrolite Consulting Ltd, trading as Ecovate to undertake the end to end management of the procurement process and potentially the project management of the subsequent processes for and on behalf of SHSC. More details will be available in the Invitation to Dialogue.
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Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and northern Ireland).


Winner: MCW Custom Energy Solutions Ltd t/a Breathe Energy Ltd
Number of bids: 3