Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-09-18
Buyer: Zero Waste Scotland Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services | 71314200: Energy management services | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services
Estimated value: 167000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Supplier appointed to this Framework Agreement will be capable of providing technical support for stakeholder engagement, as well as being capable of supporting technical development within supported Local Authorities to improve their technical knowledge and build capacity in relation to the development of Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies (LHEES).
The contractor may be required to deliver the primary requirements of this contract at various locations across Scotland, including the Highlands and Islands as appropriate and relevant.
The Supplier appointed to this Framework Agreement will be capable of providing support for stakeholder engagement on a Call Off basis, as well as being able of supporting technical development within supported Local Authorities to improve their technical knowledge and build capacity in relation to the development of Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies (LHEES).
The Framework covers a range of potential support requirements, which primarily relate to low carbon heat and district heat networks, and which are intended to help build the knowledge and capacity of staff from within and across different teams, departments and locations within a supported Local Authority.
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.
Zero Waste Scotland is not using the ESPD module on PCS for this procurement exercise. Bidders must therefore download the ESPD (Scotland) provided for this procurement exercise as an additional document in order to prepare a response.
Failure to follow the instructions provided in either the ‘Supporting Information for Selection Criteria’ document or the Tender document may result in your ESPD (Scotland) response and / or Tender submission being ruled non-compliant. Please read these instructions carefully prior to completing and submitting any response. Any questions relating to these instructions must be raised using the Question and Answer facility through the PCS website.
The questions, weightings and scoring methodology for Selection Criteria can be found in the ‘Supporting Information for Selection Criteria’ document.
Bidders are reminded that only information provided as a direct response to the ESPD (Scotland) will be evaluated. Bidders should complete their response on the basis that Zero Waste Scotland, its staff and advisers have no prior knowledge of their organisation.
Bidders should note that Zero Waste Scotland will carry out due diligence checking on statements made within ESPD (Scotland) responses. A request from Zero Waste Scotland to provide evidence in support of statements made by a Bidder in their ESPD (Scotland) response does not infer that the Bid or the Bidder has been successful.
4 — Excellent: Response is completely relevant and excellent overall. The response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the requirement and provides details of how the requirement will be met in full.
3 — Good: Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provides details on how the requirements will be fulfilled.
2 — Acceptable: Response is relevant and acceptable. The response addresses a broad understanding of the requirement but may lack details on how the requirement will be fulfilled in certain areas.
1 — Poor: Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains insufficient / limited details or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled.
0 — Unacceptable: Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate an ability to meet the requirement.


Winner: Arup
Award value: 167000
Number of bids: 9