Repair, maintenance and associated services related to roads and other equipment

Tender description

The provision of integrated network management; routine, winter and emergency maintenance; renewal and improvement works and other such works; design and supervision of renewal and improvement works and such other work on the specified trunk roads within the Unit. The contract will include indicative maximum value thresholds for categories of ordered work. These thresholds are subject to change during the contract based on the performance of the service provider. Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Ministers has identified the requirement to appoint a suitably experienced economic operator to operate the Scottish Trunk Road Network Management Contract - South West Unit (the “Contract”). This exercise is Tranche 1 of a 2 Tranche activity which covers all 4 Units within the Scottish Trunk Road Network. Tranche 1 focuses on the South Units with this notice being for the South East Unit. The procurement for the South West unit is covered under a separate contract notice and can be found on Public Contracts Scotland. Tranche 2 will comprise of the North Units and will be issued in 2020. A maximum of two Units can be won across the network and will be limited to one in the South and one in the North. For clarity and the avoidance of doubt in respect of the Award Restriction, an economic operator that has submitted a tender includes any person or entity involved in the Tranche 1 Procurement or Tranche 2 Procurement as parent undertaking in terms of section 1162 of the Companies Act 2006, any member of the group of companies of which the parent undertaking forms part, lead bidder, consortium or JV member, or any other reliant entity whose capacity in terms of technical and professional ability and/or economic and financial standing, is relied upon in terms of Regulation 64 of the Regulation. Transport Scotland will manage the procurement process on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. In the event of the contract award, the Contract will be entered into between the Scottish Ministers and the successful tenderer. The initial Contract term is 8 years with an option to extend for up to a further 4 years. The estimated value of the contract including any extension period is 720 000 000 GBP. The Contract terms and conditions will be based upon ICE 5th Generation which has been amended by Transport Scotland. Each successful economic operator shall be invited to submit a tender on the same Contract terms. The contractor will be procured through a competitive tender procedure, in accordance with the competitive dialogue procedure as provided for in the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Due to project complexity, the contract requires to be performed by a single contractor and as such shall not be divided into lots. To be considered for this Contract economic operators are required to complete the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) in accordance with this Contract Notice. Economic Operators shall be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, on the basis of information they have provided within the ESPD. The ESPD can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk). Requirement The scope of works will include but is not limited to: provision of integrated network management; routine, winter and emergency maintenance; renewal and improvement works and other such works; design and supervision of renewal and improvement works and such other work on the specified trunk roads within the Unit. The Contract will include indicative maximum value thresholds for categories of ordered work. These thresholds are subject to change during the Contract based on the performance of the service provider. Further information on the requirements and objectives of the Contract can be found in the attached supplementary document reference "Supplier Industry Day Supplementary Information Document. The information contained in the document is preliminary and will be supplemented with further information at tender stage. No warranty or representation of any kind is given as to the accuracy or completeness of such information. The Scottish Ministers, Transport Scotland and their advisers shall not be liable for any errors or omissions or lack of specificity in such information. Any reliance on or use of any information contained within the document is entirely at the risk of the economic operator.