Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-20
Buyer: Argyll and Bute Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45210000: Building construction work | 50000000
Submission deadline: 2017-08-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: General reactive and planned maintenance work of several trades to cover Council properties, NHS Highland properties, and temporary tenancies. Also includes Capital Works Quote Requests up to 50 000 GBP in value.
We reserve the right to discretion in awarding the Lots where we consider it is to a clear economic advantage, and any risks relating to business continuity and resilience of the contracts are deemed manageable.
After consideration of the lotting strategy and operational risks, we reserve the right to award more than 1 Lot to a single bidder if inadequate tenders are received to cover the area.
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, to enable them to carry out the scope of the contract as detailed in part II.2.4 of the OJEU contract notice.
It is a specific requirement of this contract that persons responsible for carrying out the contract, or intended subcontractor(s), must have membership of the following Trade Associations:
Plumbing Works: Water Safe / The Plumbing and Heating Contractors Alliance / Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors (APHC) / Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers Federation (SNIPEF) (or equivalent).
If bidders intend to subcontract such work they must confirm that any subcontractors will be registered with the appropriate scheme(s).
If bidders do not commit to ensuring that they, their proposed sub-contractors, or their future sub-contractors have the required membership(s) they may not be taken forward in this procurement exercise.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of 115 000 GBP for the last 2 years:
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.
Financial Status — To establish the financial standing of a bidder, the Council will firstly take into account a risk report provided independently by KeyNotes. Within such reports, the risk of a business failure is expressed on a scale of 1 (maximum risk) to 5 (minimum risk). In the event that a bidder is determined to have a risk failure rating of 3 and under i.e. that the bidder is considered to have a high risk of business failure, Argyll and Bute Council reserves the right to request further information, as in our sole discretion, considered necessary for the purpose of ensuring that the bidder has the financial capacity to deliver any contract awarded as a result of the tender exercise. Should the further information fail to satisfy the Council of the economic standing of the bidder then such bidder may be excluded from further competition.
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 between 3 and 5 examples of works carried out in the past five years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the work as described in part II.2.4 of the OJEU Contract Notice. Examples should only be provided in the template attached to Question 1.71.1 of the Qualification Envelope.
Bidders will be required to confirm that they intend to subcontract in line with the requirements detailed in Supplementary Condition 29.

Eligibility requirements: 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, to enable them to carry out the scope of the contract as detailed in part II.2.4 of the OJEU contract notice. It is a specific requirement of this contract that persons responsible for carrying out the contract, or intended subcontractor(s), must have membership of the following Trade Associations: Electrical Works: NICEIC or SELECT (or equivalent); Emergency Lighting: BAFE (or equivalent); Gas Services: Gas Safe Registration (or equivalent); Plumbing Works: Water Safe / The Plumbing and Heating Contractors Alliance / Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors (APHC) / Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers Federation (SNIPEF) (or equivalent). If bidders intend to subcontract such work they must confirm that any subcontractors will be registered with the appropriate scheme(s). If bidders do not commit to ensuring that they, their proposed sub-contractors, or their future sub-contractors have the required membership(s) they may not be taken forward in this procurement exercise.