Official UK procurement notice
Supply, Delivery & Installation of Education Furniture
Authority: East Ayrshire Council (Local council)·Consortium: 4 public authorities
What is being bought5 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionSupply, Delivery & Installation of Education Furniture
CPV: Dining chairs · Dining tables · Kindergarten furniture · Miscellaneous furniture and equipment · Modular furniture · Playground equipment · Playground sandboxes · School furniture · Seats · Sunshades · Toys
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 8 bids on the busiest of 5 lots · 9 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1General Furniture (Primary & Secondary)Awarded
Classroom desks and chairs, teacher desks and chairs, folding exam desks, storage cupboards and shelving, bookcases, tables etc for primary and secondary schools.
Lot #2Early Years Furniture/Equipment (0-5 Years)Awarded
Variety of furniture for early years facilities, including baby and toddler, with varying sizes; also items providing opportunities for active place such as home corner, adjustable height desks, room-scapes, variety of seating including soft, art/creative and messy play.
Lot #3Multi Functional Space Furniture/EquipmentAwarded
Variety of furniture items that are flexible and innovative for a variety of activities such as single use/paired/group/whole class activities
Lot #4Dining FurnitureAwarded
Dining furniture for primary and secondary schools with the ability to be quickly and easily set up and able to be stored in an efficient and effective manner, also dining furniture to encourage social dining which will remain within the spaces on a permanent basis and suitable for daily use
Lot #5External Furniture/Outdoor LearningAwarded
A variety of external furniture and equipment to facilitate outdoor learning such as sun canopies, seating, external blocks, water and sand play
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 sub-criteria (4)
- Quality & Range of Furniture: 20%
- Deliverability & Proposals for Managing the Contract: 15%
- price: 60%
- Sustainability & Added Value: 5%
Published award criteria (4)
- Quality & Range of Furniture: 20
- Deliverability & Proposals for Managing the Contract: 15
- Sustainability & Added Value: 5
- Price: 60
- 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.
- “Supply, Delivery & Installation of Education Furniture” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, 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
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Mar 2021, 16:40 GMT
- Last source update
- 17 Mar 2021, 16:40 GMT
- Authority reference
PS/20/72- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-005446- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-029cb7Find a Tender
Publisher note: Expressions of Interest must be made via the Public Contracts Scotland-Tender website and must be made by 16 October 2020 with tender submissions uploaded/submitted by 19 October 2020. It should also be noted that although other Councils as noted above will be able to call-off from this Framework, it is not guaranteed that they will opt to use the East Ayrshire Council Framework. (SC Ref:647823)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast5 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 5 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £1,000,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Lot 1 - General Furniture (Primary & Secondary)
- Signed
- 23 Feb 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Lot 2 - Early Years Furniture/Equipment (0-5 Years)
- Signed
- 23 Feb 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Lot 3 - Multi Functional Space Furniture/Equipment
- Signed
- 23 Feb 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Lot 4 - Dining Furniture
- Signed
- 23 Feb 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Lot 5 - External Furniture/Outdoor Learning
- Signed
- 23 Feb 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · General Furniture (Primary & Secondary) | 7bids · 7 electronic | 5 | — | — |
| 2 · Early Years Furniture/Equipment (0-5 Years) | 7bids · 7 electronic | 5 | — | — |
| 3 · Multi Functional Space Furniture/Equipment | 7bids · 7 electronic | 5 | — | — |
| 4 · Dining Furniture | 7bids · 7 electronic | 5 | — | — |
| 5 · External Furniture/Outdoor Learning | 8bids · 8 electronic | 6 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
4 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Fife CouncilContracting authority
- North Lanarkshire CouncilContracting authority
- South Ayrshire CouncilContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Kilmarnock Sheriff CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
9 commercial parties on the notice- Caledonia Play LtdFramework contractor
- Claremont Office Furniture LimitedFramework contractor
- Community Products (UK) Limited T/A Community PlaythingsFramework contractor
- Creating Classrooms LimitedFramework contractor
- Morleys (Bicester) LtdFramework contractor
- Sharp Business Systems UK plcFramework contractor
- Spaceright Europe LimitedFramework contractor
- Willowbrook (Education) LimitedFramework contractor
- YPOFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.