Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-01-29
Buyer: Zero Waste Scotland Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 71315100 | 71315200 | 71315210 | 71800000
Estimated value: 2500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-02-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: Zero Waste Scotland wishes to procure services for the provision of food and drink waste advice and support free of charge to businesses in Scotland.
Services may be provided through a combination of remote and onsite delivery to businesses across the length and breadth of Scotland, including the Highlands and Islands.
The service to be provided through this lot is intended to support businesses operating within Scotland’s hospitality and food service sectors establish baseline data in terms of current food and drink waste generation, identify opportunities to prevent (or reduce, where appropriate) this generation and realise cost and carbon savings and prepare case studies and guidance documents that can be used by other non-supported businesses to target similar improvement opportunities.
Zero Waste Scotland anticipates the appointment of a single supplier (the ‘Framework Contractor’) to this lot.
This agreement may be extended by up to a further 2, 12-month periods, subject to satisfactory performance, continued funding and prior agreement between Zero Waste Scotland and the contractor.
Scottish Government ERDF Programme 2015-2020, Strategic Intervention: Resource Efficient Circular Economy Accelerator Programme.
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.
Services may be provided through a combination of remote and onsite delivery to businesses across the length and breadth of Scotland, including the Highlands and Islands.
The service to be provided through this lot is intended to support businesses operating within Scotland’s manufacturing and retail sectors establish baseline data in terms of current food and drink waste generation, identify opportunities to prevent (or reduce, where appropriate) this generation and realise cost and carbon savings and prepare case studies and guidance documents that can be used by other non-supported businesses to target similar improvement opportunities.
Zero Waste Scotland anticipates the appointment of a single supplier (the ‘Framework Contractor’) to this lot.
This agreement may be extended by up to a further 2, 12-month periods, subject to satisfactory performance, continued funding and prior agreement between Zero Waste Scotland and the contractor.
Scottish Government ERDF Programme 2015-2020, Strategic Intervention: Resource Efficient Circular Economy Accelerator Programme.
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.
Services may be provided through a combination of remote and onsite delivery to businesses across the length and breadth of Scotland, including the Highlands and Islands.
The service to be provided through this lot is intended to target staff behaviour within a supported business, which is a common barrier to preventing food and drink waste, by providing specialist support to create staff training materials and behaviour change interventions that will positively influence staff within those businesses to reduce food and drink waste. This includes preparation of case studies and guidance documents that can be used alongside or to promote the previously developed training and awareness collateral by non-supported businesses to achieve similar behavioural change.

Eligibility requirements: III.1.1) of the notice is not applicable to this procurement exercise. Section A of Part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) is not being used for this contract opportunity.

Award value: 2500000