Design consultancy services

Tender description

The University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a single design team for a new medical teaching facility at the Edinburgh bioQuarter Campus. The Design team should consist of lead consultant, architecture consultant, specialist medical teaching design consultant, principal designer, sustainability consultant, civil, structural, mechanical and electrical, acoustic, fire engineers, and interior designers (café only).The lead consultant will be the architecture consultants, who will need to have the necessary size and experience for this type of project. The key areas identified and defined in this work are: (a) practical laboratory work, clinical skills and simulation and anatomy; (b) large group teaching and seminar rooms; (c) study spaces; (d) social spaces, and (e) Professional support. Early analysis identifies a gross area of c17 000 m2 and estimated construction cost of c45 000 000 GBP. The University will appoint separate cost consultant and landscape engineer services. The design team appointment will be via the University’s Design Team appointment documentation. We will apply a 2-stage restricted procedure. Stage 1: pre-qualification via the submission of the completed ESPD (Scotland). Bidders must pass the minimum standards (pass/fail) sections of the ESPD (Scotland). These can be found within the qualification envelope of PCS-T. Statements detailing the specific requirements can be found within Section III 1.1 and 1.2 and Section VI (VI.3) of the Contract Notice. Bidders must self-certify adherence to selection and exclusion criteria via the ESPD (Scotland) on PCS-T. Suppliers may be required to submit means of proof at a later stage via PCS-T. When completing the ESPD, bidders must have regard for the specific selection requirements detailed in Sections III and VI of this OJEU Notice. Bidders must complete the technical envelope. Specific statements detailing the requirement can be found within Section III 1.3 of the Contract Notice. The responses to these statements will be scored as per the scoring methodology detailed below. The 6 highest scoring bidders, scoring 50 percent and above, will be taken through to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage and they will be invited to submit a tender. Where the number of candidates meeting the selection criteria is below 6, the University may continue the procedure by inviting the candidates with the required capabilities. In any event the number of candidates invited (6 or less) shall be sufficient to ensure genuine competition. Objective Criteria for Shortlisting — ESPD Section 4C scoring methodology: 0 = Unacceptable. Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate previous experience/capacity/capability relevant to this criterion. 1 = Poor. Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response shows some elements of relevance to the criterion but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate previous relevant experience/capacity/capability. 2 = Acceptable. Response is relevant and acceptable. The response demonstrates broad previous experience, knowledge and skills/capacity/capability but may lack in some aspects of similarity e.g. previous experience, knowledge or skills may not be of a similar nature. 3 = Good. Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good amount of experience, knowledge or skills/capacity/capability relevant to providing similar services to similar clients. 4 = Excellent. Response is completely relevant and excellent overall. The response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates thorough experience, knowledge or skills/capacity/capability relevant to providing similar services to similar clients. Stage 2: Invitation to Tender (ITT) The University will evaluate all the shortlisted bidders/tenderers ITT submissions via undertaking a technical and commercial evaluation. Those bidders who have submitted a tender return will also be invited to interview. The ITT quality questionnaire will be marked and a further mark (for the interview) will be incorporated into the overall ITT quality score. Technical – this section carries a maximum score of 80 %. Scores shall be allocated based on the total percentage achieved by the response out of the maximum possible percentage. This takes into account the score out of 4 (detailed in above) and the weighting allocated to individual questions. E.g. If a question is weighted 10 percent and the submission scores 3 points out of 4 for that question then the response will receive 7,5 percent out of a possible 10 percent. Commercial – this section carries a maximum score of 20 percent. The bidder who submits the lowest cost will be awarded the maximum score (20 percent) and all others awarded a score pro rata, in relation to the lowest bid. The Technical and Commercial scores will be combined to give each bidder an overall total score.