Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-02-20
Buyer: Transport Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34121000: Buses
Estimated value: 500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-03-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Bus operator to organise and manage a park and ride bus shuttle service from 2 locations (Perth and Stirling) to Gleneagles carrying up to 15 000 passengers daily.
The 2019 Solheim Cup golf competition will take place at the Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterader, Perthshire, PH3 1NF between 8.9.2019 and 15.9.2019. Scottish Ministers are looking to award a contract for the provision of a park and ride shuttle service. The service provider will be responsible for the provision, management and delivery of a park and ride bus shuttle service from 2 locations: McDiarmid Park, Crieff Road, Perth, PH1 2SJ; and Falleninch Farm, Dumbarton Road, Stirling, FK8 3AB.
A proposal is required to fully manage and resource a park and ride bus shuttle service to operate from 2 locations (Perth and Stirling) Bus operators with the capacity to transport up to 15 000 passengers per day from the 2 locations described above to Gleneagles as spectators at the Solheim Cup golf competition. Buses proposed for use must be clean, safe, reliable and of modern construction, with a seating capacity greater than 52 passenger seats. Vehicles are to comply with all legal requirements and be fitted with air conditioning and wifi and be manufactured within the last five (5) years. Wheelchair users and others with limited mobility must be catered for, therefore buses with suitable adaptations should be provided. Stewards will be required at each of the 2 park and ride sites to guide all buses and spectators around the sites. The stewards must be personable and experienced and able to provide a friendly customer service to spectators, which will include managing queues when required and answering customer queries.
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. To determine these standards, economic operators shall:
(a) in response to ESPD, question Ref. 4B1a provide the specified annual turnover for the last 3 years of trading, or for the period which is available if trading for less than 3 years;
(b) in response to ESPD, question Ref. 4B2a provide the name, value and/or range of NINE financial criteria for the last 2 years of trading, or for the period which is available if trading for less than 2 years.
In addition to the information requested under (a) and (b), economic operators are required to provide a link/copies of the associated annual accounts as filed at Companies House (or equivalent if not a UK registered company) for the last 2 years of trading, or for the period which is available if less than 2 years.
This information has been requested to enable Transport Scotland to perform their own assessment and confirm the financial ratios submitted. Ultimately, ensuring the correct score is allocated, and to ensure no misinterpretation. Where there exist differences in ratios, between those provided and those calculated by Transport Scotland, clarification will be sought.
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described below:
The financial information received under ESPD, question Ref. 4B.4 shall be evaluated and scored out of 50 by allocating a score against 9 individual economic and financial standing evaluation criteria, namely:
The individual scores shall be weighted, with the most recent (“Year 1”) financial statements weighted at 67 % and the previous (“Year 2”) statements being weighted at 33 %, to form an aggregated score for each of the 9 criteria over the 2 years.
The maximum cumulative score resulting from the summation of the 9 economic and financial standing aggregated scores shall be 50 marks. A submission shall be marked as a Fail and will not be considered further if the score achieved by a single economic operator or a group of economic operators is less than 50 percent of the available marks. The scoring mechanism can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.
Where the submission has been submitted by a group of economic operators, the information submitted by each group member will be evaluated in the proportion of the percentage shareholdings or percentage equity/interest of each group member and a score determined for such group of economic operators on that basis.
In response to question Ref. 4B.5 economic operators must confirm they already have or can commit to obtain, prior to the commencement the following levels of insurance:
In responding to question Ref. 4B5a to 4B5c of the ESPD, where the bidder ticks the box “No, and I cannot commit to obtain it” they shall be marked as Fail.

Eligibility requirements: A proposal is required to fully manage and resource a park and ride bus shuttle service to operate from 2 locations (Perth and Stirling) Bus operators with the capacity to transport up to 15 000 passengers per day from the 2 locations described above to Gleneagles as spectators at the Solheim Cup golf competition. Buses proposed for use must be clean, safe, reliable and of modern construction, with a seating capacity greater than 52 passenger seats. Vehicles are to comply with all legal requirements and be fitted with air conditioning and wifi and be manufactured within the last five (5) years. Wheelchair users and others with limited mobility must be catered for, therefore buses with suitable adaptations should be provided. Stewards will be required at each of the 2 park and ride sites to guide all buses and spectators around the sites. The stewards must be personable and experienced and able to provide a friendly customer service to spectators, which will include managing queues when required and answering customer queries.

Award value: 500000