Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-03-24
Buyer: Partick Housing Association Ltd
Country: UK
Region: Glasgow City
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72222300: Information technology services
Submission deadline: 2017-04-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: PHA needs a reliable, resilient and performing IT infrastructure to help support its strategic development over the next three years and to support their day to day business operations. The key outputs required will be:
— Replacement of all current virtualised servers to a new virtualised platform and upgrading operating systems where appropriate.
— Reliable and resilient hosted service for delivering IT infrastructure including DR and business continuity services for all components of the infrastructure.
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.
Question Reference 4B1.1: Bidders will require to have a general yearly turnover of 120 000 GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the Contract. As evidence, Partick Housing Association may ask for annual accounts for the bidder.
Question 4B.3: Where turnover information is not available for the period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up/started trading.
Question 4B.4: Bidders will be required to state the value(s) for the following financial ratio(s) from their most recent set of accounts:
Ratio 1 the Acid Test: (Current Assets-Stock)/Current Liabilities: A company with an Acid Test Ratio of less than 1 cannot currently pay back its current liabilities. Therefore to pass the Acid Test Ration question the bidders must have a score greater than 1.
Ratio 2 Return on Capital Employed % — Profit/Capital/Employed. Return on capital employed or ROCE is used to prove the value the business gains from its assets and liabilities. To pass the question the Association requires the bidder to score a positive figure/percentage.
Ratio 3 Current Ratio — Current Assets/Liabilities. The current ratio is a liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay short-term obligations. To pass this question the Association requires the bidder to achieve a score of greater than 1.
The Association will consider a Pass in any 2 of the 3 ratios as an overall Pass for this part of the assessment.
Question Reference 4B.5.1: It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Bidders will be required to provide examples that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the works as described in Part II.1.4 of the Contract Notice.
In response to Question 4C1.2 bidders will be required to provide no more than 3 examples of a similar scope, size and nature, within the last three years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the works.
The projects must therefore be predominately works in ICT Infrastructure and Support Services. Examples must be taken from contracts where the Bidder was working as the Main Contractor. The Contracts put forward as evidence for this must have been on-going for at least 12 months and the Bidder must be able to provide evidence of this.

Eligibility requirements: III.1.1 of the notice is not applicable to this procurement exercise.