Window-cleaning services

Tender description

The University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a single supplier to provide an internal and external window cleaning service throughout the University’s estate. The contract will ensure that the University’s buildings are maintained to a high standard by regular maintenance and reactive window cleaning. The scope of the contract will be bi-annual window cleaning throughout the estate (with a very small number of occasional reactive specialised cleans). This contract is being tendered on behalf of the University of Edinburgh and all University of Edinburgh Subsidiary Companies. Any and all of the University of Edinburgh’s Subsidiary Companies may access and utilise this contract at any time during the relevant contract period. We will apply a two-stage restricted procedure. 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) of this OJEU notice when completing the ESPD in PCS-T. Following assessment of submitted ESPDs, we will receive tenders from shortlisted bidders. The University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a single supplier to provide an internal and external window cleaning service throughout the University’s estate. The contract will ensure that the University’s buildings are maintained to a high standard by regular maintenance and reactive window cleaning. The scope of the contract will be bi-annual window cleaning throughout the estate (with a very small number of occasional reactive specialised cleans). We will apply a two stage restricted procedure. Stage 1: Pre-qualification via submission of completed ESPD (Scotland). 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) of this OJEU notice. The responses to these statements will be scored as per the scoring methodology detailed within the tender. We will take the required number of highest scoring bidders, scoring 50 % and above, through to the invitation to tender (ITT) stage and they will be invited to submit a tender. Where the number of bidders meeting the selection criteria is below the minimum number, the University may continue the procedure by inviting the candidates with the required capabilities. In any event the number of candidates invited shall be sufficient to ensure genuine competition. Stage 2: Invitation to tender. The University will evaluate all shortlisted bidders ITT submissions via undertaking a 50 % technical and 50 % commercial evaluation. Technical (Quality) — 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 and the weighting allocated to individual questions. For example if a question is weighted 10 % and the submission scores 3 points out of 4 for that question then the score achieved will be 7.5 % out of a possible 10 % . Price — the bidder who submits the lowest cost will be awarded the maximum score (50 % ) and all other bids awarded a score pro rata, in relation to the lowest bid. The quality and commercial score will be combined to give each bidder an overall total score. The supplier with the highest total score will be deemed to have provided the most economical advantageous tender (MEAT). Prior to award of contract, a 10-day standstill period will be applied to this regulated procurement.