Support for First Stop Emergency Access Accommodation

South Lanarkshire Council require a service Provider to provide First Stop Emergency Access Temporary Accommodation at our new Clydesdale Street, Hamilton site. This service will require 24-hour staffing, 7 days a week, including a waking night and the ability to accept service users. No lone working will be permitted.

The aim of this service is to help meet South Lanarkshire Council’s statutory obligations in relation to temporary accommodation for households who present as homeless and require emergency access temporary accommodation.

SPD Question 2.C.1 Reliance on the capacities of other entities

Bidders are required to complete a full SPD for each of the entities whose capacity they rely upon.

SPD Question 2.D.1 Subcontractors on whose capacity the bidder does not rely.

Bidders are required to complete a shortened version of the SPD for each Subcontractor on whose capacity the bidder does not rely on.

Exclusion Criteria

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 8 and 9 of the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016.

SPD Questions 3A and 3C have been identified as mandatory exclusion grounds and SPD Questions 3B and 3D have been identified as discretionary exclusion grounds. All the exclusion grounds will be dealt with on a PASS/FAIL basis. In respect of the mandatory exclusion grounds a bid will be excluded where a bidder fails to provide either a positive response or to provide details to the satisfaction of the

Council of the self cleansing measures undertaken. In respect of the discretionary exclusion grounds a bid may be excluded where a bidder fails to provide either a positive response or if the Council is not satisfied as to the self cleansing measures undertaken.

Declarations and Certificates

In an open tendering procedure prior to any award being made the successful bidder will provide the undernoted certificates, declarations and/or completed questionnaires to evidence their compliance with the relevant questions within the Qualification Envelope. All certificates, declarations and questionnaires can be found within the Attachment area of PCS-T.

SPD Question 2D.1 Prompt Payment Certificate

SPD Questions 3A.1 to 3A.8 Serious and Organised Crime Declaration

SPD Question 3A.6 Modern Slavery Act 2015 Declaration

SPD Question 3D.11 Non-Collusion Certificate

SPD Question 4B.5.1 Insurance Certificates

SPD Question 4C.6 Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act Declaration

Declaration Section Form of Offer to Tender*

Declaration Section SOC Protocol Form

Declaration Section Human Rights Declaration

*The ‘Form of Offer to Tender’ must be completed and uploaded within the relevant question in the Commercial Envelope.

In the case of an open tender, the other Declarations listed above will not be required to be uploaded and submitted with the bid, but will instead be requested by the Council following the conclusion of the evaluation of the Qualification, Technical and Commercial Envelopes and prior to the award of the tender. Failure to provide this information or in the event that the information provided does not support or evidence the statements made within the SPD will invalidate the bid. In this scenario the Council will seek to obtain the relevant information and evidence from the second highest scoring bidder and so on until a fully compliant bidder is identified.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 28922. For more information see:

http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see:

https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

Under this agreement bidders will be required to actively participate in the achievement of Community Benefits. The Council has calculated that the minimum total of 60 community benefit points which must be delivered under this project.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 31068. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

Please refer to the Community Benefits Menu document within the ITT.