NAC/5019 Servicing & Maintenance of Non-Domestic Solar Photovoltaic Systems & Provision of a Remote Solar PV Monitoring System

If required, 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 yearly “specific” turnover for each Lot as follows:

Lot 1 - 80k GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.

Lot 2 - 20k GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.

If applying for both Lots 1 and 2 - 100k GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.

Turnover must be provided separately for each year i.e. 20/21 XXk GBP, 19/20 XXk GBP, 18/19 XXk GBP

North Ayrshire Council reserve the right to review the bidders financial information including information from credit reference agencies at tender stage and throughout the life of the contract, and seek clarifications if necessary. If clarifications are not satisfactory the bidder may be excluded from the tender process.

Bidders who cannot meet the required level of turnover will be excluded from this tender.

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 or started trading.

It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:

Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 10million GBP

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Public Liability Insurance 1million GBP

Product Liability Insurance 1million GBP

Third-Party Motor Vehicle Insurance Required for the duration of the contract

Bidders will be required to provide a minimum of 2 examples of services carried out in the past 3 years that demonstrates they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in part II.2.4 of the Contract Notice. The services must be of a similar value, size and scope.

Unsatisfactory experience will result in exclusion from the tender process.

The minimum annual project value NAC will accept as an example is 30k GBP per annum for Lot 1 and 5k GBP per annum for Lot 2.

Bidders must also provide two satisfactory references for the same two contracts on the reference templates provided. References should be completed and signed by previous customers for contracts of a similar value, size and scope. If any of the referees score the bidder less than 2 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.

Note: If bidders are applying for both Lots 1 & 2 you must submit 2 experience examples and respective references for each Lot you are submitting a bid for.

Completed experience and reference templates must be zipped and uploaded at question 4C.1 of the qualification envelope.

Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.

Bidders who intend to subcontract more than 25% to any individual organisation must ensure the SPD (Scotland) - Subcontractors Supplier Response is completed and uploaded at question 2C.1.