From III.1.4
For Q4B.2.1 and 4B.4 - Tenderers who have traded for less than 3 years must comply with the minimum financial requirements for the period in which they have traded. Tenderers, who do not comply with the financial requirements but are part of a Group, can provide a Parent Guarantee if the Parent satisfies the financial requirements.
Question 4B.5.1a/b and 4B5.2 – Tenderers must have/commit to having either:
Insurance:
(i) employers liability: at least GBP 10 million for each and every event/unlimited in aggregate.
(ii) public liability: at least GBP 10 million for each and every event/unlimited in aggregate.
(iii) professional indemnity: at least GBP 5 million.
Or be a member of the clinical negligence and other risks indemnity scheme (pass/fail)
Question 4C.1.2 – Tenderers must provide 2 relevant examples of their experience of delivering a significant and complex range of services which have a high profile within the past 3 years (examples from both public and the private sector will be acceptable although preferably one example should be from the public sector). Each example should include but not be limited to:
(a) an overview of the contract including customer name, start/end date, value, description;
(b) experience that your company has of transforming the service/improve the outcomes for the public/client and promoted efficiencies. Responses should not exceed 2xsides of A4 per example with Arial font 11. No account will be taken of the content beyond the maximum pages stipulated.
This shall be scored as follows:
0 = Unacceptable-Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate previous experience/capacity/capability relevant to this requirement.
1 = Poor-Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response shows some elements of relevance to the requirement but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate delivery of complex services on a similar scale.
2 = Acceptable-Response is relevant and acceptable. The response demonstrates broad previous experience, knowledge and skills/capacity/capability but lacks some aspects of similarity in providing complex services of a similar scale.
3 = Good-Response is relevant/good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good amount of experience, knowledge and skills/capacity relevant to providing services of a similar scale to similar clients.
4 = Excellent-Response is completely relevant/excellent overall. The response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates thorough experience, knowledge or skills/capacity/capability relevant to providing services of a similar scale to similar clients.
Tenderers must achieve a score of 2. A score of less than 2 may result in the bid being set aside and not being evaluated further.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Website at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=636472
The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.
The contracting authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:
Due to the nature of the contract
Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361
A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:
— targeted recruitment and training for ‘disadvantaged’ persons unemployed for over 6 months,
— work placement opportunities for 14- 16 year olds; and
— graduate placements.
(SC Ref:636472)