Repair and maintenance services of electrical machinery, apparatus and associated equipment

Tender description

UK SBS on behalf of the UKRI wish to establish a contract for the appointment of a contractor who will work collaboratively with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI, Science and Technology Facilities Council (the Contracting Authority) with a view to providing high and low voltage maintenance, inspection and testing services. UK SBS is managing this procurement process in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as may be amended from time to time), (the ‘Regulations’). This is a services contract being procured under the OJEU Open Procedure Regulations. See Section I.3) for access to procurement documentation. UKRI, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is an independent, non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. STFC’s head office is in Polaris House in Swindon and is outside the scope of this contract. STFC have facilities at three main sites: (a) The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire (RAL); (b) The STFC Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire; (c) The Cosener’s House, in Abingdon. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. RAL employs circa 1 200 staff made up of scientists, engineers, support services, etc. The RAL site is approximately 35 hectares with 61 buildings on it. Accommodation is provided at Ridgeway House (RAL) and The Cosener’s House. Ridgeway House is a purpose-built accommodation facility with 123 bedrooms and The Cosener’s House is a grade 2 listed building with conference facilities, 50 bedrooms and 5 meeting rooms. Chilbolton Observatory is one of the world's most advanced meteorological radar experimental facilities, and is home to the world's largest fully steerable meteorological radar, the Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar (CAMRa). Estates Property Services provides valuable support to the front-line, scientific activities of the STFC. This support is wide ranging, from the provision of suitable sites, buildings, workplaces and information and communications technology connectivity, through to an exceptionally wide range of business and staff support services. There is an existing, established in-house maintenance and design team that operate and maintain much of the establishment’s building services, plant and equipment. This requirement is for a service provider to work alongside the in-house team, providing a maintenance and asset replacement service to the assets defined, within the documents schedules and in future developments across the RAL estate. The service provider is to work in partnership with the estates property services team to ensure business continuity through robust maintenance and testing of the electrical infrastructure that includes HV private network, LV distribution and small power systems. Asset uptime and availability is critical to the operation of the facilities, access to the operational facilities is restrictive due to the nature of the operation facilities. Several laboratories have internal safety protocols that work in parallel to RAL permit to work systems. The service provider is to be proficient in working in environments where detailed isolation prior to testing is planned and executed to ensure maximum safety, efficient testing, remediation of defects and minimum disruption to the operation. A brief summary of the requirement has been provided above, please ensure you review all additional appendices for full details of this requirement. All additional appendices can be found in the stage 1: overview Section on the Delta eSourcing Portal.