Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Gas and Electrical Audit Services
Authority: North Ayrshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Ayrshire Council (“NAC”) invited tenders for the provision of gas and electrical audit services. NAC requires a supplier to carry out gas audits and electrical audits for new installations, servicing and repairs carried out by NAC's gas and electrical installers.
- Recurrence: This contract is recurring.
CPV: Accounting and auditing services · Auditing services · Statutory audit services · Technical inspection services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1This procurement followed the GPA open tender processAwardedRenewalPublished value£200,000
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: 40
- Price: 60
- Suitability
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.
- Economic & financial standing
Bidders will be required to have a minimum “general” yearly turnover of 80,000 GBP per year for the last 3 years. 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 commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 5 million GBP in respect of any one event
Public Liability Insurance = 5 million GBP in respect of any one event
Professional Risk Indemnity Insurance = 1 million GBP in the aggregate
3rd Party Motor Vehicle Insurance - A valid motor vehicle certificate must be held in the company name or (where there is no fleet but rather the company permits its employees to use their personal vehicles for business purposes), a letter signed by a person of appropriate authority - confirming that the company has ongoing arrangements in place to ensure their employees' vehicles are appropriately insured and maintained.
www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf ↗
North Ayrshire Council reserve the right to review the bidder's financial information using company watch financial analytics at tender stage and throughout the life of the contract. If the bidder’s financial health score (H-Score) is 25 or l…
- Technical & professional ability
Bidders must provide four examples (two for gas audit services and two for electrical audit services) that demonstrates they have the relevant experience to deliver the contract. Examples must be of a similar scope, size, and value and be from within the last three years. Unsatisfactory experience will result in a fail and exclusion from the tender process. If you submit more than four examples, NAC will only evaluate the first four examples provided.
Bidders must also provide four satisfactory references for the same four contracts. References must be fully completed and signed by previous customers and must be of a similar scope, size, and value and be from within the last three years. If any of the referees score less than two, the bidder will be excluded from the tender process. If you submit more than four references, NAC will only evaluate the first four references provided.
Completed experience and reference templates must be zipped and uploaded at question 4C.1.2 of the qualification envelope.
Bidders will be required to confirm that they / their staff have the following relevant educational and professional qualifications:
- Enrolled on Gas Safe Register for gas engineers.
- Membership of IGEM (Institute of Gas Engineers and managers).
- Constructionline Silver membership
- UKAS-accredited certification for all inspection and audit activities covered under this contract.
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what propo…
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 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
- Yes · This contract is recurring.
- First published
- 10 Dec 2025, 14:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 23 Apr 2026, 10:13 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 23 Jan 2026 – …
- Authority reference
NAC/5224- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-036928- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f2d2Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: (SC Ref:829947)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 23 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 23 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
23 Jan 2026 → 23 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Submission deadline277 days ago23 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened277 days ago23 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Notice published187 days ago23 Apr 2026, 10:13 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete23 Apr 2026, 10:13 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICEIC Consulting a trading brand of Certsure LLP | £200,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 036928-2026-NAC/5224-1 · NICEIC Consulting a trading brand of Certsure LLP
- Signed
- 14 Apr 2026
- Value
- £200,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3bids · 3 electronic · 3 from abroad | 2 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Kilmarnock Sheriff CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- NICEIC Consulting a trading brand of Certsure LLPAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.