Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-10-05
Buyer: North Ayrshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 31625000 | 35120000: Surveillance and security systems | 35121700 | 35125300: Security cameras | 50610000
Submission deadline: 2018-11-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contract includes for a 24 hour 365 days a year emergency call out service. There is a 1 hour response time on emergency call-outs included in the contract and the contractor must be able to attend any call-out within North Ayrshire within this timescale, day or night.
The property portfolio contains properties with open and closed protocol systems and all of these systems are included within the contract.
The contract term is 3 years + 2 optional extensions of 12 months each with estimated mid-March award and commencement on the week of 22.4.2019.
If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.
Where it is required within a bidder’s country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum “general” yearly turnover of 750 000 GBP for the last 3 years:
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of 750 000 GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up/started trading.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Bidders will be required to provide 2 examples, within the last 3 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4 of the contract notice. The experience provided will be for projects of a similar value, size and scope. Unsatisfactory experience will result in a fail and exclusion from the tender process.
Bidders must provide 2 satisfactory references for the same 2 experience example contracts on the reference templates provided alongside the Previous Experience Template in section 4C.1.2 of the ESPD. Completed reference templates must be uploaded into the general attachments area of the qualification envelope in PCS-T. If any of the referees score the bidder less than 2 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
1) The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent);
2) A quality management policy authorised by their chief executive or equivalent, and is regularly reviewed at a senior management level, which is relevant to the scale and scope of the contract.
NSI/NACOSS: gold or silver (the design, installation and maintenance of electronic — security systems including access control, CCTV systems and intruder alarms).

Eligibility requirements: If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established. Where it is required within a bidder’s country of establishment they must confirm which authorisation or memberships of the relevant organisation(s) are required in order to perform this service. Bidders must confirm if they hold the particular authorisation or memberships.