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Published 1 Sept 2022, 15:14 BST

Official UK procurement notice

IQVision Upgrade · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: University Of Edinburgh (Education)

ServicesOpen procedure
Published estimate£250,000exc. VAT24% below published estimate
Submissions closed 3 Oct 2022awarded 21 Feb 2023
Awarded to Enterprise controls engineers ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Tenders were invited for the provision of an upgrade to IQVision from the existing Trend 963 system. Note, the previous tender was cancelled due to a lack of competition, resulting from timing.

CPV: Energy and related services · Energy meters

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1The works comprises the migration of the Trend 963 Supervisor sites to IQVISION at the…Awarded

The works comprises the migration of the Trend 963 Supervisor sites to IQVISION at the University of Edinburgh, Estates Department. It is anticipated that works will be performed offsite, however the University can provide secure remote access via BOMGAR to the University’s server. Final commissioning and demonstration will be required at the University.

Bidders were required to self-certify their adherence to the conditions of participation via the SPD (Scotland) in PSC-T. Bidders were required to refer to the specific requirements listed in the Section III in this Contract Notice when completing the SPD in PCS-T. Bidders noted that these are mandatory pass/fail requirements and that failure to provide adequate evidence on request of how these requirements shall be met would result in automatic exclusion from the Tendering process.

Each Bidder passing the Minimum Standards then responded to SPD pass/fail questions (4C.1.2; 4C.1.2.1; 4C.1.2.2). Suppliers that passed the SPD questions were then subject to a technical and commercial evaluation.

Bidders were required to confirm they can meet the requirements and specification detailed within the Statement of Requirements within the Invitation to Tender, Bidders will be required to provide a full product specification. Failure to confirm and demonstrate this in their responses to the technical questions would result in the Bidder being automatically excluded.

The University of Edinburgh reserved the right to apply their own judgement based on experience from similar contracts to determine if the response is feasible. If Bidders knowingly cannot fulfill this, they were required to discontinue this application.

A 50% technical threshold applied - bids were required to achieve a minimum total overall technical score of 25% or more out of the maximum of 50%. Any Bidder who failed to achieve the technical threshold would be excluded from the commercial tender evaluation and shall take no further part in the tender evaluation process.

Commercial scores were allocated on a comparative basis with the lowest overall price receiving full marks and others a percentage of that mark according to the difference between their bid and the lowest offer.

The quality and commercial scores were combined to give each Bidder, who has passed the technical threshold, an overall total score. The supplier with the highest total score was deemed to have provided the most economical advantageous tender (MEAT).

Delivery: Scotland · Estates Department Main Office 9 - 11 Infirmary Street Edinburgh EH1 1NP
Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored
Quality: 50%Price: 50%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • Technical: 50%
  • price: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Technical: 50
  • Price: 50
Conditions of participation2
  • Suitability

    Staff must have attended and passed the Trend Vision Engineering course.

  • Economic & financial standing

    SPD 4B.1.1 Statement - Bidders will be required to have a minimum “general” yearly turnover of 500,000 GBP for the last 3 years.

    SPD 4B.3 Statement - 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.

    SPD 4B.5.1a and 4B.5.1b and 4B.5.2 Statement

    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 Insurance = 10,000,000 GBP

    Professional Risk Indemnity Insurance = 5,000,000 GBP

    www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf ↗

    SPD 4B.6 Statements

    Bidders 4B.6 Statement 1: Where the bidder is providing a submission on behalf of a subsidiary company, upon request, the bidder must obtain a Parent Company Guarantee prior to commencement of any subsequently awarded contract.

    4B.6 Statement 2: Bidders will be required to provide adequate assurance of financial strength to successfully complete their contractual obligations.

    Bidders must be able to provide upon request, their 3 most recent sets of annual audited accounts, including profit and loss information, and the following ratios:

    • Current Ratio
    • Quick Ratio
    • Debtors Turnover Ratio
    • Return on Assets
    • Working Capital
    • Debt to Equity Ratio
    • Gross Profit Ratio

    A review of your ratios and audited accounts may be u…

Staff
Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

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
Awarded
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
1 Sept 2022, 15:14 BST
Last source update
13 Apr 2023, 12:56 BST
Award evaluation window
3 Oct 2022 – …
Authority reference
EC0980
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-010637
Classification (CPV)
Energy and related servicesEnergy meters
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM75)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0364ed Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Performance terms

Service Requirement - Minimum Requirements

Satisfactory completion of the Single Procurement Document (SPD) located in the Qualification Questionnaire of PCS-T

The bidder must be a current Trend Technology Centre (TTC)

The bidder must have experience of successfully completing a similar conversion project of circa 50,000 points

SPD

Bidders must pass SPD questions (4C.1.2; 4C.1.2.1; 4C.1.2.2) in order to be considered.

Publisher note: (SC Ref:728708)

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Public Contracts Scotland · Who buys & how to bid on PCS
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free single registration for Scotland; PCS-Tender (Jaggaer) for full bidding
Submission deadline
3 Oct 2022, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
120 days from the deadline
Bids opened
3 Oct 2022, 12:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

3 Oct 2022 → 13 Apr 2023 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    3 Oct 2022, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    3 Oct 2022, 12:00 BST
  3. Notice published
    13 Apr 2023, 12:56 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    13 Apr 2023, 12:56 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £190,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 2
Contracts signed 1latest 21 Feb 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Enterprise controls engineers ltd£190,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2bids · 2 electronic · 2 from abroad0——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

University Of Edinburgh

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation Charles Stewart House, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 1HTContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Edinburgh Sheriff CourtReview body Edinburgh

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.