Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-06-02
Buyer: Procurement for Housing Ltd (t/a PfH Scotland)
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 31518200 | 31625000 | 31625100 | 31625200 | 34928470
Estimated value: 500000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-06-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and Housemark. PfH Scotland was established in 2013. PfH Scotland is a contracting authority under Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (‘PCSR 2015’) and a central purchasing body under Regulation 38 PCSR 2015.
PfH Scotland is seeking qualified and experienced contractors to establish a framework agreement for fire safety installation, service and maintenance works and services to cover spirnkler and fire suppression systems, fire alarm and emergency lighting systems, passive works, whole building works, cladding and domestic fire alarms. The framework will be divided into regions. A separate framework is being procured for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, details of which can be accessed at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/procurementforhousing/aspx/Home
Service and maintenance services in relation to sprinkler and fire suppressions systems. The lot is divided into six geographical regions and bidders may tender for all regions. To be considered for the framework, organisations must meet the minimum standards of accreditation and other criteria as set out in the ESPD and the associated scoring methodology. PfH Scotland intends to appoint five contractors to each region, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance in relation to fire alarm and emergency lighting systems. The lot is divided into six geographical regions and bidders may tender for all regions. To be considered for the framework, organisations must meet the minimum standards of accreditation and other criteria as set out in the ESPD and the associated scoring methodology. PfH Scotland intends to appoint five contractors to each region, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Service and maintenance in relation to fire alarms and emergency lighting systems. The lot is divided into six geographical regions and bidders may tender for all regions. To be considered for the framework, organisations must meet the minimum standards of accreditation and other criteria as set out in the ESPD and the associated scoring methodology. PfH Scotland intends to appoint five contractors to each region, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance in relation to a range of passive fire protection measures including but not limited to fire resistant rated compartmentation works, provision and replacement of fire doors to PAS 24 standards, wet/dry riser works, fire sealing and damping. signage and photoluminescent path markers. The lot is divided into six geographical regions and bidders may tender for all regions. To be considered for the framework, organisations must meet the minimum standards of accreditation and other criteria as set out in the ESPD and the associated scoring methodology. PfH Scotland intends to appoint five contractors to each region, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance in relation to a range of active and passive fire protection measures as described in lots 1 to 5. The lot is divided into six geographical regions and bidders may tender for all regions. To be considered for the framework, organisations must meet the minimum standards of accreditation and other criteria as set out in the ESPD and the associated scoring methodology. PfH Scotland intends to appoint five contractors to each region, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance in relation to domestic fire alarms. The lot is divided into six geographical regions and bidders may tender for all regions. To be considered for the framework, organisations must meet the minimum standards of accreditation and other criteria as set out in the ESPD and the associated scoring methodology. PfH Scotland intends to appoint five contractors to each region, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance of cladding and replacement aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding panels with new fir resistant cladding systems with appropriate compartmentation. The lot is divided into six geographical regions and bidders may tender for all regions. To be considered for the framework, organisations must meet the minimum standards of accreditation and other criteria as set out in the ESPD and the associated scoring methodology. PfH Scotland intends to appoint five contractors to each region, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Design, installation, testing, commissioning, handover, service and maintenance in relation to sprinkler and fire suppressions systems. The lot is divided into six geographical regions and bidders may tender for all regions. To be considered for the framework, organisations must meet the minimum standards of accreditation and other criteria as set out in the ESPD and the associated scoring methodology. PfH Scotland intends to appoint five contractors to each region, but reserves the right to award a greater or fewer number of places depending on the bids received.
Organisations must have the following minimum levels of general annual turnover for the lots they are applying for:
PfH Scotland will obtain an independent third-party risk report from Experian using the Company Registration number supplied by the bidder. Any organisation who does not meet the minimum threshold of 50 out of 100 (Average Risk) will be subject to further investigation. This may entail a review of recent accounts and PfH Scotland reserves the right to request additional information to satisfy itself that the organisation is financially secure. PfH Scotland reserves the right to reject an organisation where it has doubts over the financial position of the organisation. It is the bidding organisation's responsibility to ensure that all information held by Experian is accurate when submitting their tender.
Professional indemnity: lots 1,3, 5 and 8 = 2 000 000 (two million pounds) per annum in aggregate in respect of fire precaution works.
Professional indemnity: lots 6 and 7 = 5 000 000 (five million pounds) per annum on an each and every claim basis, with an inner cap of 2 000 000 (two million pounds) per annum in the aggregate in respect of fire precaution works.
1) Bidders are required to be able to supply at least three contract examples for each lot they are bidding for. Such examples must be within the last 5 years for public works contracts and the last 3 years for public service contracts. Bidders must provide sufficient detail in their response to enable PfH to be able to identify and assess the relevant of the contract examples to the services required under the framework agreement. Bidders should use question 4C.1 to respond to the requirement. Bidders that are unable to provide three relevant and appropriate examples demonstrating sufficient experience (or provide a justification why they are unable to do so) will be excluded from the procurement process.

Eligibility requirements: As set out in the ESPD and associated scoring methodology.

Award value: 500000000