Quantity Surveying and Principal Designer and CDM2015 Advisor Services Procurement

Internet address(es):

Main address: www.knowes.org

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA11062

Internet address(es):

Main address: www.clydebank-ha.org.uk

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA16462

Clydebank Housing Association.

Quantity Surveying and Principal Designer and CDM2015 Advisor Services Procurement.

Quantity Surveying and Principal Designer and CDM2015 Advisor Services Procurement.

West Dunbartonshire.

Clydebank Housing Association and Knowes Housing Association (the Employers)

wish to enter into a joint procurement to appoint between one and three

consultancies who have the required knowledge, skill, experience and qualifications

to act as Quantity Surveyors, Principal Designers and CDM2015 Advisers to a

Framework Agreement to provide these services for their Planned Maintenance

Programme. The term of the Framework Agreement will be four years from April

2017 to March 2021.

The main categories of planned maintenance works which will be

required are:

Window Replacement, Central Heating and Bathroom Replacement

Works.

Bidders require to have experience of working on similar contracts in

an occupied housing environment. Experience of procuring public

contracts for their Clients using a publicly available web portal and a

good knowledge of current public procurement legislation. The

consultant will for most contracts to be procured be the only

consultant appointed to the project.

This Procurement will be conducted through the use of the Restricted

Procedure. All queries about this procurement must be made via the

PCS messaging system.

The process we will apply will be:

— Statements including the specific requirements can be found within

Section III.1.1, III.1.2 and III.1.3 of the Contract Notice.

— Bidder's must pass the minimum standards sections of the ESPD

(Scotland).

Part III. and Section B of Part IV will be scored on a pass/fail basis, and

Section C of Part IV of the ESPD (Scotland) will be scored in the following way:

0 — Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate

previous experience/capacity/capability relevant to this criterion.

1 — Poor. Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The

response shows some elements of relevance to the criterion but

contains

insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate previous

relevant experience/ capacity/capability.

2 — Acceptable. Response is relevant and acceptable. The response

demonstrates broad previous experience, knowledge and

skills/capacity/capability but may lack in some aspects of similarity e.g.

previous experience, knowledge or skills may not be of a similar nature.

3 — Good. Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently

detailed to demonstrate a good amount of experience, knowledge or

skills/capacity/capability relevant to providing similar services to similar

clients.

4 — Excellent. Response is completely relevant and excellent overall. The

response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates thorough

experience, knowledge or skills/capacity/capability relevant to

providing similar services to similar clients.

— The responses to the questions of Section III.1.3 of the Contract

Notice will be weighted the following way: Please see ESPD (Scotland)

Question 4C.1.2: 65 %, 4C.6: 20 %, 4C.8.1: 5 %, 4C.8.2: 5 %, 4C.10: 5 %.

— We will take the five highest scoring bidders through and they will be

invited to submit a tender.

Bidders must score a minimum of 2 for each question otherwise they

will be disqualified from the competition.

The Employers may require additional quantity surveying, Employer's

Agent or Principal Designer/CDM Adviser services for other projects

not of a planned maintenance nature and may negotiate fees for such

work with the appointed consultancy(s).

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are

in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public

Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

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.

Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘general’ yearly turnover of

400 000 for the last 3 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.

It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to

obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract

the types and levels of insurance indicated below:

Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance — 10 000 000 GBP

Public Liability — 5 000 000 GBP

Professional Indemnity Insurance — 2 000 000 GBP.

Bidders will be required to provide examples that demonstrate that they

have the relevant experience to deliver the services/supplies as described in

part II.2.4 of this OJEU Contract Notice.

Responses should be limited to a maximum of 5 projects and 750 words per

project.

a) Bidders will be required to confirm that they have the following relevant

educational and professional qualifications:

Relevant Professional qualifications and Professional Memberships; for

example membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors,

Association for Project Safety or equivalent.

Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and,

if so, for what proportion of the contract. Bidders who do not require to sub

contract will score higher marks.

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 alternatively in response to the questions in section 4D

bidders may supply the information as set out in ESPD (Scotland) Standard

Statement v 1.8.

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of

the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland)

Regulations 2015.

Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=474943.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

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.

The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause in this contract.

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Download the ESPD document here: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=474943

Internet address:www.knowes.org