Security services

Tender description

ESPO on behalf of ESPO and YPO is seeking to establish a national framework agreement that will cover the collection, processing, consolidation and onward depositing of money/valuables from customers’ premises and car parks to nominated cash receiving facilities or other suitable receiving locations. The framework scope covers the cash and valuables collection and cash and valuables in transit services from customers’ premises and buildings of various types and cark parks including parking machines. All tenderers must meet the minimum mandatory specification stated in the Invitation to tender document. Additional products and services that customers may require during the life of the framework include (but are not limited to): — same day deposit services, — collection and replenishment of ticket vending machines, — bus and tram collections, — secure transportation of sensitive data and other valuables, — ad-hoc cash collections and float deliveries for events and exhibitions, — charity boxes collections, — cash float services for replenishment of ATM cassettes, — depositing of cash to high street banks, — purchase, delivery and installation of standard and smart safes, — end to end cash management services. The requirement is split into 12 regional areas as follows: East Midlands, East of England, North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Tenderers’ can apply for one, some or all regional areas. ESPO has established a commercial trading company, ESPO Trading Ltd, whose target clients are third sector organisations such as national and local charities, public sector mutual organisations and other organisations involved in the delivery of services to or for the public sector. The successful supplier may be asked to enter into an additional separate framework agreement (the Second Framework) with ESPO Trading Ltd on materially similar terms to that found in the tender pack to be entered into by ESPO itself. Any second framework agreement will be a purely commercial agreement and will, for the avoidance of doubt, not be governed by the Public Contract Regulations 2015 or other public procurement legislation. ESPO Trading Ltd may enter into the second framework agreement with the successful supplier and make it available to third sector clients who themselves are not required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or other public procurement legislation. Accordingly, this is provided for bidders' information only. An eAuction process may be used to award subsequent call-off contracts following the reopening of competition among the parties to the framework agreement.