Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-12-12
Buyer: Glasgow City Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311200 | 71311210 | 71311300 | 71530000: Construction consultancy services
Estimated value: 1850000 GBP
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 1st 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 seven 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.
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.
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.
Glasgow City Council (“the Council”) must, by notice in writing as soon as possible after the decision has been made, inform all tenderers and candidates concerned of its decision to award the contract, conclude the framework agreement or establish a dynamic purchasing system. The council must allow a period of at least the relevant standstill period (where the notice is sent by facsimile or electronic means the period is 10 days ending at midnight at the end of the 10th day after that on which the last notice is sent, when sent by other means the period is 15 days) to elapse between the date of dispatch of the notice referred to in regulation 85(1) of the public contracts (Scotland) regulations 2015 (“the Regulations”). The council is obliged to comply with the regulations and any eligible economic operator can bring.
An action in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session where as a consequence of a breach by the Council, suffers or risks suffering loss or damage.The bringing of court proceedings during the standstill period means that the council must not enter into the contract, conclude.
The framework agreement or establish the dynamic purchasing system unless the proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of; or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The bringing of court proceedings after the standstill period has elapsed and the remedies that are available to the courts are detailed in the Regulations. Economic operators can write to the council seeking further clarification on the notice, to which the council must respond within 15 days. Economic operators should be mindful to seek their own.


Winner: Civic Engineers
Award value: 1850000
Number of bids: 10