Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-04-14
Buyer: Glasgow City Council
Country: UK
Region: Glasgow City
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311200 | 71311210 | 71311300 | 71530000: Construction consultancy services
Estimated value: 2000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-06-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The provision of a lead consultant and a team of multi-disciplinary Professional Services to undertake the preparation and brief, concept design, developed design, and technical design in accordance with RIBA stages, and an ongoing design input during the construction period, for the first main Public Realm investment under City Deal in Glasgow city centre.
The provision of a lead consultant and a team of multi-disciplinary Professional Services to undertake the preparation and brief, concept design, developed design, and technical design in accordance with RIBA stages, and an ongoing design input during the construction period, for the first main Public Realm investment under City Deal in Glasgow city centre. This investment programme is termed the Enabling Infrastructure Integrated Public Realm (EIIPR) project, and it has become colloquially known as the ‘Avenues’ project due to its underlying ethos of creating connected, green routes across the city centre. This tender relates to Block A which contains 7 Avenue locations as follows:
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.
Additional Information pertaining to this Contract Notice is contained in the document titled GCC004288CPU ESPD Statements attached within the Buyers Attachment area of PCS-T. Bidders must ensure they read this document in conjunction with this Contract Notice.
Bidders must comply with the financial requirements detailed in Section 4B Economic and Financial Standing of the document titled GCC004288CPU ESPD Statements.
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 insurances detailed in section 4B Minimum Insurance requirements of the document titled GCC004288CPU ESPD Statements.
With reference to ESPD Question 4C.1.2, Bidders will be required to provide three relevant examples of services carried out during the last 5 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4 of the OJEU Contract Notice and as detailed in the ITT.
Further details on this are provided in Section 4C Technical and Professional Ability of the document titled GCC004288CPU ESPD Statements.
ESPD Question 4C.1.2 is a scored question that totals 100 % with 33.33 % attributed to each of the 3 examples. A minimum overall pass mark of 60 % out of 100 % is required and any Bidder who fails to achieve the minimum pass mark will be excluded at this stage.
Additional Information pertaining to this Contract Notice is contained in the document titled GCC004288CPU ESPD Statements attached within the Buyers Attachment area of PCS-T. Bidders must ensure they read this document in conjunction with this Contract Notice.
Freedom of Information Act — Information on the FOI Act is contained in Appendix A of the ITT. Applicants must note the implications of this legislation and ensure that any information they wish the council to consider withholding is specifically indicated on the FOI Certificate contained in the buyers attachments area within the PCS Tender portal (NB the council does not bind itself to withhold this information).
Tenderers Amendments — The tenderer must enter any clause, condition, amendment to specification or any other qualification he may wish to make conditional to this offer. Buyers will be required to complete the tenderers amendment certificate contained in the buyers attachment area within PCS Tender portal.
Prompt Payment — The successful tenderer shall, as a condition of being awarded the tender, be required to demonstrate to the council's satisfaction that all funds due to the tenderer's permitted sub-contractors in respect of these works are paid timeously and that as a minimum invoices rendered by subcontractors shall (unless formally disputed by the tenderer) be paid within 30 days of receipt. The successful tenderer shall also impose this condition on its subcontractors in respect of payments due to any sub-sub-contractors, if any.
Request for Documentation: Once the Evaluation of Price and Quality has been completed, the recommended Bidder will be expected to provide all documentation as specified in the ESPD. When the Request for Documentation is made, Bidders must supply the relevant information within 3 working days. Failure to provide this information within the specified time may result in your bid being rejected and the Council proceeding with the procurement exercise to the next appropriate bidder.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 7963. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343


Award value: 2000000