Official UK procurement notice
Framework Agreement for the Supply and Delivery of LNG
Authority: CalMac Ferries Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCalMac Ferries Limited is seeking to enter a contractual agreement with a suitably qualified and experienced supplier for the supply and delivery of LNG.
CPV: Gaseous fuels
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1CalMac Ferries Limited is seeking to enter a contractual agreement with a suitably…Renewal
CalMac Ferries Limited is seeking to enter a contractual agreement with a suitably qualified and experienced supplier for the supply and delivery of LNG at the ports of Troon/Ardrossan and Uig. Additional information: 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.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 30
- Price: 70
- Economic & financial standing
Please refer to these statements when completing section 4B of the SPD (Scotland)
Statement for 4B- Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described below:
NB. Ratios shall be based upon the latest available published accounts
1- Return on Capital Employed: must be at a ratio greater than “0”
2- Acid Test (Current Ratio): Current Ratio must be greater than “1”
3- Gearing: Gearing must be a figure of less than 100%
4- Interest Coverage: Interest Coverage must be a figure of 2 or above
Bidders must provide their ("general") yearly turnover for the last 3 financial years.
Minimum level(s) of standards required:
Economic Operators must confirm they already have or can commit to obtain,
prior to the commencement the following levels of insurance:
- Employers liability - statutory minimum 5m GBP, each and every claim.
- Motor Insurance - 5m GBP
- Public liability insurance including cover for loss/damage to third party property and third party injury with a minimum limit of GBP10 million per event with no annual aggregate. There must be no marine exclusions in the policy.
- Products liability with a minimum limit of USD10 million. There must be no marine exclusions and a completed operations extension.
- Professional indemnity/Liability - minimum 5m GBP, each and every claim
The bidder should purchase any other insurance cover as necessary, taking into account the terms and conditions of this contract.
- Technical & professional ability
This SPD is designed to allow CFL to review evidence of prior experience and should not make forward-looking statements or predict where products or features may have utility for CFL.
Q4C of the SPD (Weighting 100%) - Bidders will be required to provide examples that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to supply and deliver LNG as described in part II.2.4 of the Contract Notice. The question is split into three weighted sections and should be from the last 3 years as follows:
Question 1 (Weighting 80%): CalMac Ferries Limited (CFL) wish to engage with suitable contractors who have supplied LNG molecules to UK or equivalent standards and may have performed Truck to Ship (TTS) bunkering. You are asked to provide a summary of your experience in these activities, what challenges you encountered and what lessons you learned from them.
Your answers should be as descriptive as possible and should include the following aspects in addition to any other relevant contractual experience:
- Description of the logistics involved in the LNG delivery from point of collection to point of delivery
- How you ensured resilience was built in to the contract
- Statutory and local authority regulations involved
- Name and nature of the organisation you supplied and how you assisted with their operational readiness
- Approximate number of LNG deliveries made per annum and extensions on your contract to this operator
- Previous innovative solutions deployed
Question 2 (Weighting Pass/F…
- Successive reduction
- Candidates will be reduced successively across stages
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “Framework Agreement for the Supply and Delivery of LNG” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Competitive procedure with negotiation
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 20 Aug 2021, 16:04 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Aug 2021, 16:04 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-020508- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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Publisher note: Questions in the ITT will be scored using the following methodology: 100- 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. 75 - 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. 50 - 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. 25 - 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. 0 - Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate previous experience/capacity/capability relevant to this criterion. Award Criteria questions can be found in the ITT together with the weightings. COMPETITIVE PROCEDURE WITH NEGOTIATION EXPLANATION -Competitive Procedure with Negotiation (CPN) this is a two-stage procedure run along the same lines as a Restricted procedure. This requires interested parties to complete a pre-qualification stage by submitting a Single Procurement Document (SPD) before being invited to submit a tender. This down selection process allows us to limit the number of parties receiving the full tender and moving forward to the negotiation phase(s). Under CPN tenders are submitted from down selected suppliers and are then subject to evaluation and negotiation and then re-submitted to finalise positions and allow selection of a preferred bidder. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this PQQ exercise. The Project code is 5583. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason: There is not a likelihood of a subcontractor being used within this procurement. The Contracting Authority does not intend to include any community benefit requirements in this contract for the following reason: A Community Benefit (CB) clause has not been included within the ITT documents as a clause is considered not to be relative and /or proportionate to the nature of the service to be required. (SC Ref:664113)
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 21 Sept 2021, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
20 Aug 2021 → 8 Oct 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published20 Aug 2021, 16:04 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown21 Sept 2021, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected8 Oct 2021, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Sheriff Court HouseReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.