Official UK procurement notice
Innovation Fund Administrator - Embedding Children’s Rights in Public Services
Authority: Scottish Government (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of fund administration services.
The service provider will be required to develop, establish and administer a grant funding programme (the Innovation Fund) that will stimulate improvement and innovation activity supporting the process of embedding a child rights based approach in public bodies and supporting the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into public services.
CPV: Administration services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The objectives of this Contract include, but are not limited to the following:RenewalPublished value£125,000
The objectives of this Contract include, but are not limited to the following:
- To set up and administer an Innovation Fund
- To provide support and guidance to interested parties to access these funds via the application process
- To deliver pre-funding activities which include pre-application engagement, application sifting, eligibility checks, due diligence, development of a grading process, and setting up the Fund from June 2022
- Develop a decision making process which include representation from Scottish Government and children/young people
- To administer 2 rounds of funding, between July 2022 and March 2024 and associated pre- and post-funding activities, with a round of awards made within each financial year of the period.
- To administer the eligibility, due diligence and grading process in a robust and independent way.
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: 70
- Price: 30
- Economic & financial standing
SPD 4B.4: Bidders must demonstrate a current ratio of no less than 1.
Current ratio will be calculated as follows: Total current assets divided by Total current liabilities.
Insurance Requirements - the bidder confirms they already have or can commit to obtain, prior to the commencement of the contract, the levels of insurance cover indicated below:
SPD 4B.5.1a - Professional Risk Indemnity 1,000,000 GBP
SPD 4B.5.1b - Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance 5,000,000 GBP
SPD 4B.5.2 - Public Liability: 1,000,000 GBP
There must be no qualification or contra-indication from any evidence provided in support of the bidders economic and financial standing.
Bidders who do not comply with the above financial requirements but are part of a group, can provide a parent guarantee if the parent company satisfies the financial requirements stipulated above.
- Technical & professional ability
SPD 4C.1.2 - Tenderers to provide 2 examples of undertaking similar services within the last 3 years.
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
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
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 9 May 2022, 16:28 BST
- Last source update
- 9 May 2022, 16:28 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 10 Jun 2022 – …
- Authority reference
CASE/582931- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-012041- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0335a6Find a Tender
Publisher note: The Single Procurement Document (Scotland) is a standard qualification questionnaire supplied by Scottish Ministers for all regulated procurements. The SPD (Scotland) is used to self-certify for the minimum requirements to tender for this contract opportunity and will be scored on a Pass/Fail basis. Individual questions that form the Quality award criteria will be scored using the following methodology: 0 - Unacceptable; 1 - Poor; 2 - Acceptable; 3 - Good; 4 - Excellent. The lowest total tender price will be awarded 100% of the score available for Price. The Price score for the remaining Tenderers will be relative to the lowest total tender price. NOTE: The buyer is using PCS-Tender to carry out this procurement process. The project code is 21329 and the ITT code is 44397. Please note this is a separate website and if you are not already registered, you will be required to do so. To access PCS-Tender, record your interest in this notice and access the tender documentation please visit https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk. Please search for the project Code under PQQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers and use the Search/Filter function then the Project Code from the dropdown list. Please note that once you have expressed interest in the PQQ/ITT it will move to your My PQQs/ITTs area. For further information on using PCS-Tender, please read the Supplier Response Guide: https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/esop/pts-host/public/pts/supplierhelppage/PCS-TSupplierResponseGuide The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 21329. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 (SC Ref:692735)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 10 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 10 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
Timeline
9 May 2022 → 10 Jun 2022 · 3 dates- Notice published9 May 2022, 16:28 BST
- Submission deadline10 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened10 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Edinburgh Sheriff CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.