Provision of Renewable Heat and associated Services

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Main address: http://www.highland.gov.uk/

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00045

Internet address(es):

Main address: http://www.moray.gov.uk

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00160

Provision of Renewable Heat and associated Services.

The Highland Council and Moray Council seek to appoint a suitably qualified experienced and competent Contractor to manage, operate and maintain renewable heat and associated services across their estates. This will include Biomass, Gas Combined Heat and Power (GCHP) Systems, Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP) and Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP).

Provision of Renewable Heat and associated Services — Highland

Various sites throughout the Highlands.

The management, operation and maintenance of renewable heat and associated services. This will include Biomass, Gas Combined Heat and Power (GCHP) Systems, Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP) and Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP).

Option to extend for a further 12 month period giving a maximum duration of 60 months.

The estimated value is the total value of the Contract over its lifetime, including options.

Provision of Renewable Heat and associated Services — Moray

Various sites throughout Moray.

The management and operation and maintenance of renewable heat and associated services. This applies to Biomass.

Option to extend for a further 12 months giving a maximum contract duration of 60 months.

The estimated value is the total value of the Contract over its lifetime, including options.

Bidders will be required to have a minimum general yearly turnover as follows:

Lot 1 — 3 000 000 GBP for the last 2 years;

Lot 2 — 240 000 GBP for the last 2 years.

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 of insurance indicated below:

Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 5 000 000 GBP;

Public Liability Insurance = 5 000 000 GBP.

Where the Bidder relies on the technical experience of a sub-contractor(s), the experience relied upon must be consistent with the services specified in the Contract Notice.

The Bidder must provide 3 relevant examples which demonstrate experience in the provision of services carried out in the last 3 years consistent with those specified in the Contract Notice.

Bidders will be required to confirm that they and/or the sub-contractor(s) have (where relevant to the provision of the Services) the following relevant educational and professional qualifications:

— NIC-EIC;

— HETAC;

— MCS;

— Gas Safe.

Note: Bidders must be able to evidence they they hold the above-mentioned accreditation / membership or equivalent prior to contract commencement.

May 2021 or May 2022. The precise timing will be dependent upon whether or not the option to extend is taken up.

Question scoring methodology for Selection Criteria: pass / fail.

Award scoring methodology will be the following:

100 — Response is completely relevant. The response could not be more comprehensive or be improved upon.

90 — Response is completely relevant. The response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the requirements and provides complete details of how the requirement will be met.

80 — Response is highly relevant. Detailed response demonstrates a thorough understanding of the requirement and provides almost totally complete details of how the requirement will be met.

70 — Response is relevant. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a thorough understanding and provides at least 70 % of the required details on how the requirement will be fulfilled.

60 — Response is substantially relevant and acceptable and demonstrates a broad understanding of the requirement to a satisfactory depth but could have been more detailed.

50 — Response is at least 50 % relevant and acceptable. The response demonstrates an understanding of the requirement but lacks details on how the requirement will be fulfilled in certain areas.

40 — Response is partially relevant but not sufficiently detailed to demonstrate how the requirement will be met. There is a lack of depth of detail or understanding in many areas.

30 — Response has some relevance but is generally insufficient. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains limited detail or explanation to demonstrate an understanding or how the requirement will be met.

20 — Response demonstrates a lack of understanding and little pertinent detail or explanation of an understanding or how the requirement will be met.

10 — Little relevance, understanding or explanation of how the requirement will be met.

0 — Nil or irrelevant response.

Bidders will be required to achieve a minimum Award score methodology score of 40 against each question in the technical / quality questionnaire.

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.

Any contract(s) awarded as a result of this procurement will be subject to NEC3 Term Service Contract, April 2013.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 7972. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

Community benefits are included in this requirement. A summary of the expected community benefits have been provided as follows:

— targeted recruitment and training opportunities;

— apprenticeships.

More information can be found in the Invitation to Tender documents.

(SC Ref:493512).

Internet address:http://www.highland.gov.uk/