Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-04-23
Buyer: Renfrewshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 32400000 | 32410000 | 32430000 | 35125100: Sensors | 38126300
Estimated value: 1047290.51 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Council requires a single contractor to supply an end to end service to monitor the internal environmental conditions (including temperature, humidity and Co2 levels) within domestic properties owned by the Council. The contractor must provide all environmental sensors, supply, installation and maintenance of a LoRaWan network or equivalent for connection to a software system and a software as a service system to provide the Council with data, reports and analysis of any environmental data collected including recommendations on a per property basis. Environmental sensors provided must be small, discrete and unobtrusive with no pilot lights or active light and no greater surface than a standard wall light switch. Sensors should be provided with suitable fixings to be securely fixed to walls/ceilings, will be battery powered and tamper -proof. The Council’s in-house team will install the sensors and the contractor will provide appropriate warranties to support this requirement.
Due to the anticipated costs of the sensors this is a supplies contract with related services and installation works. The Council requires a single contractor to supply all the environmental sensors required and an end to end service to monitor the internal environmental conditions (including temperature, humidity and Co2 levels) within domestic properties owned by the Council. The contractor must provide all environmental sensors, as above network for connection to a software system and a software as a service system to provide the Council with data, reports and analysis of any environmental data collected including recommendations on a per property basis.
Environmental Sensors provided must be small, discrete and unobtrusive with no pilot lights or active light and no greater surface than a standard wall light switch. Sensors should be provided with suitable fixings to be securely fixed to walls/ceilings, will be battery powered and tamper-proof. The batteries used in the sensors should be available to the commercial market, but should not be of the type which can be interchangeable to other standard electrical equipment i.e. avoid battery types available in retail shops ie AAA, AA, C, D etc.
Due to access issues, the Council in-house team will arrange separately for installation of sensors within the domestic properties and the contractor will provide appropriate warranties to support this requirement. The sensors should be provided with appropriate fixatives as part of the contract and the contractor will provide training to the Council in respect of all installation requirements as part of the contract. The sensors should be maintenance free, with the exception of replacement battery/ies after the minimum guaranteed period. For more information please refer to the tender documents.
The contractor will be responsible for any works or installation costs required for the network. For more information on this requirement please refer to the tender documents.
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.
The initial contract term is two (2) years with the Council having the option to extend for up to 12 months on two (2) separate occasions, subject to contract performance and the availability of further funding.
The initial two (2) year contract is up to GBP 475 650.24 and the value for the optional extension periods is up to GBP 571 640.27
An economic operator that suffers, or risks suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (as amended) may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.


Winner: iOpt Ltd
Award value: 1047290.51
Number of bids: 7