The Provision of Services for Maintenance and Repair of Council Fleet Diesel Fuel Systems

The Council is inviting suitably qualified and experienced Bidders to submit bids to provide a scheduled service for maintenance and emergency repair of fuel supply hardware and ancillary equipment including Jigsaw Fuel Management System (FMS) to ensure ongoing supply of fuel to the Council fleet.

The council requires the supplier to regularly service (monthly and annually), maintain, repair, calibrate all components related to the fuel delivery & management systems at all council fuel locations.

The Council is inviting suitably qualified and experienced Bidders to submit bids to provide a scheduled service for maintenance and emergency repair of fuel supply hardware and ancillary equipment including Jigsaw Fuel Management System (FMS) to ensure ongoing supply of fuel to the Council fleet.

The Council has eighteen bunkered fuel sites that dispense circa. 5.5 million litres of fuel per year to 2,500 authorised vehicles and drivers 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

The Council requires to appoint a sole supplier to provide all elements of this contract for fuel systems service, maintenance and reactive repair for the Councils eighteen fuel sites.

The contract is expected to run for 4 years, commencing 2 December 2025 and ending 1 December 2029.. Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Re SPD Questions 4D.1, 4D1.1, 4D1.2, 4D2, 4D2.1 and 4D2.2 bidders must hold the certificates for Quality Control, Health and Safety and Environmental Management Standards or comply with all the questions noted in SPD Section 4D. Please refer to the ‘SPD Statements’ doc within the Invitation to Tender document.

Health & Safety – applicants must complete and return the H&S questionnaire found within the Buyers Attachment area within PCS-T.

Freedom of Information Act - Information on the FOI Act is contained in Appendix A of the ITT. Applicants must note the implications of this legislation and ensure that any information they wish the council to consider withholding is specifically indicated on the FOI Certificate found in the Technical Envelope within PCS-T. (NB the council does not bind itself to withhold this information).

Tenderers Amendments - Applicants must enter any clause, condition, amendment to specification or any other qualification they may wish to make conditional to this offer. Applicants will be required to complete the tenderers amendment certificate found in the Technical Envelope within PCS-T.

Prompt Payment - The successful tenderer shall, as a condition of being awarded the tender, be required to demonstrate to the council's satisfaction that all funds due to the tenderer's permitted sub-contractors in respect of these works are paid timeously and that as a minimum invoices rendered by subcontractors shall (unless formally disputed by the tenderer) be paid within 30 days of receipt. The successful tenderer shall also impose this condition on its subcontractors in respect of payments due to any sub-sub-contractors, if any.

Non – Collusion - Applicants will be required to complete the Non-Collusion certificate contained in the Technical Envelope within PCS-T.

Insurance Mandate - All successful suppliers will be required to sign an Insurance Mandate, which will be issued in conjunction with the award letter authorising the Council to request copies of insurance documents from the supplier’s insurance provider. If the mandate is not signed and returned the Council reserves the right to request copies of insurance certificates from bidders at any point during the contract period.

Terms and Conditions are located within the Buyers Attachments area of the tender portal.

Additional information pertaining to this contract notice is contained within the Invitation To Tender Document. Applicants must ensure they read this and any other tender documents in line with this contract notice.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 30148. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363

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:

Mandatory Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information refer to Section 5 of the Invitation to Tender document situated within the Buyers Attachment area of PCS-T.