Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-08-08
Buyer: University Of Edinburgh
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33190000 | 38434540 | 50400000 | 51430000
Estimated value: 13253202 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-09-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University invites bids for supply, installation and support of bottles, individually ventilated cages, cage racks, trolleys, transport racks, change stations and related kit for the Institute for regeneration and repair and other projects. This tender will be conducted via Public Contracts Scotland — Tender portal (PCS-T), Project 10652, using a 1-stage Open procedure. Bidders must self-certify adherence to the conditions of participation via the ESPD (Scotland) in PCS-T, and may be required to submit means of proof before contract award. Bidders must refer to the requirements listed in Section III of this Notice when completing the ESPD in PCS-T.
This tender is not lotted, but is part of a family of related capital equipment Lots. Lots 2 (Cage Washers), 3 (Sterilisers), 6 (Air Showers) and 7 (Bedding Systems) are already published; OJEU Notices 2017/S 242-502531, 2018/S 013-025128, 2018/S 125-284428 and 2018/S 019-038854 refer. Other Lots will follow by separate Contract Notices.
University of Edinburgh Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the Edinburgh BioQuarter site, EH16 4UU plus other locations across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Lot 1: Hotel and Welfare Processing Solutions. This forms part of a family of congruent capital equipment Lots with an overall aggregate value of ca. 33 000 000,00 GBP. Other Lots have been, or will be issued under separate Contract notices. The overall CBS equipment procurement comprises:
Two additional contract term extensions each of 2 years are allowed for, at the University's sole discretion.
This Framework Agreement will provide a procurement vehicle for equipping the University's new Institute for regeneration and repair as a vanguard project. It will also support other capital infrastructure projects at various sites across Edinburgh, as well as encompassing other ad hoc equipment requirements of a congruent nature which arise during the contract term.
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.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum “general” yearly turnover of 5 000 000,00 GBP for the last 2 years preceding the date of this Contract notice.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of 3 000 000,00 GBP in the business area covered by the contract (Biomedical Research Equipment) for each of the last 2 years preceding the date of this Contract notice.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date that they were set up/started trading.
Current Ratio, defined as Current Assets divided by Current Liabilities; and Acid Test Ratio defined as (Current assets — Stock) divided by current liabilities.
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 adequate assurance of financial strength to successfully complete their contractual obligations, and have available their two most recent sets of annual audited accounts including profit and loss information.
Bidders will be required to provide 3 examples from the previous 5 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services/supplies as described in part II.2.4 (Lot 1) of the OJEU Contract Notice. These examples must be of comparable value and complexity to the current requirement. Responses should be clearly labelled and provided in a single document attached to the response box in PCS-T.
Bidders will be required to confirm details of the technicians or technical bodies who they can call upon, especially those responsible for quality control.

Eligibility requirements: Not applicable to this procurement exercise.

Award value: 13253202