Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-10-23
Buyer: The State Hospitals Board for Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 35121000: Security equipment
Estimated value: 5000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-11-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The State Hospital is an NHS hospital providing care and treatment for mentally disordered offenders in conditions of high security. The hospital operates a complex and integrated suite of security systems that provide detection, alarm and observations in order to support this care and treatment. Several of these security measures are to be renewed, refreshed and enhanced. These security measures will include the following systems and equipment:
Due to word and character limitations the selection and minimum standards are detailed in this notice throughout in a number of the sections.
Please note our Minimum requirements are also detailed in the document entitled Contract Notice within PCS-Tender.
The State Hospital is looking for suppliers that as principal security integrators have the skills and evidence backed experience to design, install, and commission a project of this size and complexity. It is a requirement to provide the hospital with detailed information about your experience in this specialist area, working in environments whose access to the site is controlled, tools are monitored and operatives are constantly escorted.
The hospital needs to understand your organisations involvement and resulting successes and evidence based experience from previous works completed. We will be looking for bidder’s to supply information that provides detail of the approach adopted to project management, implementation and the commissioning of resultant works. Bidders should be aware that this project will be delivered within an active live work environment that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The hospital therefore requires bidding organisations to evidence superior project management, implementation and commissioning skills that will ensure that the security of the State Hospital is never compromised.
Bidders must provide client contact information for any projects that are used as examples or evidence to support your experience and bidders should be aware that The State Hospital will contact the clients you have identified.
Experience provided must relate to any successful delivery of complex integrated security systems set in organisations that make up the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), High Secure Hospitals, Category A prisons, Government or Military settings in the United Kingdom or a compatible EU establishment. This will be an absolute prerequisite for bidders. Applied standards will be UK derived British Standards and CE EU standards.
Minimum Requirements can also be read in the document repository "visible to suppliers" section available in PCS-Tender Document will be named "Contract Notice
The following narrative explains the definition of the Critical National Infrastructure from the Scottish Governments and Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure Website:
— The national infrastructure includes those facilities, systems, sites and networks necessary for the functioning of the country and the delivery of the essential services upon which daily life in the UK depends. Within the complex web of infrastructure there are certain critical assets, the loss or compromise of which would have a major detrimental impact on the availability or integrity of essential services, leading to severe economic or social consequences or even loss of life. These are classed as ' CNI' or Critical National Infrastructure because of the severity of their loss to the UK. There are CNI assets located across the UK including in Scotland. The security and resilience of CNI in Scotland, is vital in achieving long term Scottish Government vision of “sustainable economic development and realising a Scotland where our people are safer and feel safer”. (extracted from https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2011/03/21095856/2)
Not everything within a national infrastructure sector is judged to be ‘critical’. The UK government’s official definition of CNI is:
Those critical elements of infrastructure (namely assets, facilities, systems, networks or processes and the essential workers that operate and facilitate them), the loss or compromise of which could result in:
a) Major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential services — including those services whose integrity, if compromised, could result in significant loss of life or casualties — taking into account significant economic or social impacts; and/or
Minimum Requirements can also be read in the document repository "visible to suppliers" section available in PCS-Tender Document will be named "Contract Notice”.
A major requirement of this project is the integration of systems and equipment. As part of the hospitals strategy to re-use, upgrade and replace equipment and systems the hospital will re-use our recently upgraded “Cortech Datalog 5” system. Bidders must have previous experience of this system which is widely used in both custodial and high secure sites.

Eligibility requirements: The following narrative explains the definition of the Critical National Infrastructure from the Scottish Governments and Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure Website: — The national infrastructure includes those facilities, systems, sites and networks necessary for the functioning of the country and the delivery of the essential services upon which daily life in the UK depends. Within the complex web of infrastructure there are certain critical assets, the loss or compromise of which would have a major detrimental impact on the availability or integrity of essential services, leading to severe economic or social consequences or even loss of life. These are classed as ' CNI' or Critical National Infrastructure because of the severity of their loss to the UK. There are CNI assets located across the UK including in Scotland. The security and resilience of CNI in Scotland, is vital in achieving long term Scottish Government vision of “sustainable economic development and realising a Scotland where our people are safer and feel safer”. (extracted from https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2011/03/21095856/2) Not everything within a national infrastructure sector is judged to be ‘critical’. The UK government’s official definition of CNI is: Those critical elements of infrastructure (namely assets, facilities, systems, networks or processes and the essential workers that operate and facilitate them), the loss or compromise of which could result in: a) Major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential services — including those services whose integrity, if compromised, could result in significant loss of life or casualties — taking into account significant economic or social impacts; and/or b) Significant impact on national security, national defence, or the functioning of the state. (Extracted from https://www.cpni.gov.uk/critical-national-infrastructure-0 Minimum Requirements can also be read in the document repository "visible to suppliers" section available in PCS-Tender Document will be named "Contract Notice”.

Award value: 5000000