Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-02
Buyer: North Ayrshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 42400000 | 50000000 | 50400000 | 50421000 | 51511000
Submission deadline: 2020-10-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: North Ayrshire Council requires to appoint a suitably experienced and qualified contractor to undertake the servicing and repair of ASN equipment within non-domestic properties.
— 6-monthly servicing and LOLER testing of hoists and lifting equipment. Inspection of slings for use with hoists;
North Ayrshire Council requires to appoint a suitably experienced and qualified contractor to undertake the servicing and repair of ASN equipment within non-domestic properties.
— 6-monthly servicing and LOLER testing of hoists and lifting equipment. Inspection of slings for use with hoists;
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 yearly ‘specific’ turnover of GBP 80 000 for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.
North Ayrshire Council reserve the right to review the bidders financial information including information from credit reference agencies at tender stage and throughout the life of the contract, and seek clarifications if necessary. If clarifications are not satisfactory the bidder may be excluded from the tender process.
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 or 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 a minimum of two examples of services carried out in the past 3 years that demonstrates they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4) of the contract notice. The services must be of a similar value, size and scope.
Bidders will be required to provide two satisfactory references for the same two services contracts on the reference templates provided. References should be completed and signed by previous customers for contracts of a similar value, size and scope. If any of the referees score the bidder less than two the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.
Completed experience and reference templates must be zipped and uploaded at question 4C.1 of the qualification envelope.
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) or a documented policy regarding quality management, see attachment at ESPD question 4D.1.

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.