Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-02-18
Buyer: Aberdeenshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71220000 | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 71315300 | 71324000: Quantity surveying services | 71334000
Submission deadline: 2020-03-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Contract is to provide Aberdeenshire Council with construction design services split into 7 lots:
Please note this framework is open to all other pubic bodies but it is envisaged the only other key users will be Aberdeen City Council and The Highland Council.
This lot is for the provision of clerk of works services for the alteration and refurbishment of existing properties and the construction of new build properties within the Aberdeenshire property portfolio.
This lot is for the provision of architectural and associated services for the alteration and refurbishment of existing properties and the construction of new build properties within the Aberdeenshire property portfolio.
This lot is for the provision of building surveying services for the alteration and refurbishment of existing properties and the construction of new build properties within the Aberdeenshire property portfolio.
This lot is for the provision of mechanical and electrical building services design and associated services for the alteration and refurbishment of existing Aberdeenshire Council buildings and the construction of new Aberdeenshire Council buildings.
This lot is for the provision of quantity surveying and project management services for the alteration and refurbishment of existing properties and the construction of new build properties within the Aberdeenshire property portfolio.
This lot is for the provision of structural and civil engineering and associated services for the alteration and refurbishment of existing properties, and new build properties within the Aberdeenshire property portfolio.
This lot is for the provision of landscape architecture, ecology and biodiversity, and associated services for the alteration and refurbishment of existing properties and the construction of new build properties within the Aberdeenshire property portfolio.
The authority will use an independent credit scoring organisation namely Creditsafe, to conduct appropriate financial probity checks. An unsatisfactory report may result in further detailed financial checks.
This notice is being placed on behalf of Aberdeenshire Council. Any resultant framework agreement will be available, with the agreement of the Council, for use by other Scottish contracting authorities, or its agents. These include, but are not limited to, the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross- border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, councils constituted under Section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Police Authority, Scottish health boards or special health boards, all NHS Scotland, The Integrated Joint Boards established further to the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Act 2014, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the foregoing.
It is expected that whilst this framework is available to all bodies names above, in particular it will be utilised by Aberdeen City and Highland Councils in addition to Aberdeenshire Council
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=614852.
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Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

Eligibility requirements: As per tender docs.