Measured Term Contract for Independent Gas Services Audits (HO PM 24 064)

North Lanarkshire Council wish to seek a competent supplier for the provision of a Measured Term Contract for Gas Audits.

The supplier will carry out Gas audits and report on the quality of gas works on behalf of the council, its partners and service providers.

The audit assessments will be carried out by selective sampling of all gas related works undertaken on any contract within the North Lanarkshire Council geographical area.

North Lanarkshire Council requires a suitably experienced contractor to carry out gas audits on works performed by a variety of contractors employed by the Council for works such as central heating installations. The audit assessment will be carried out by selective sampling of all gas related works undertaken on any contract within the North Lanarkshire Council geographical area. The audits will be carried out under the following circumstances,

Recently completed or in progress repair visits,

Recently completed or in progress servicing visits,

Recently completed or in progress landlord safety check visits,

Recently completed or in progress installation works, capital or ad hoc

The scope of services for this project includes, but is not limited to the following,

A fault-finding service

Gas safety awareness sessions

Provide technical advice on projects as required

Assessment of contractor’s technical ability

Assistance with specifications

Gas incident investigations and reporting services

Assist with Scottish Housing Regulator enquiries and audits

Technical bulletins delivered to NLC

Gas safety updates to all relevant parties.. Candidates should read and refer to the ITT documents. Questions and Answers deadline is 17:00, Friday 21.03.2025.

Failure to comply with instructions within the ITT may result in a Candidate's submission being rejected.

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Reg 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Bidders must ensure that they submit appropriate SPDS completed by other members of the group (if they are bidding as part of a group),

others whose capacity they rely on, and known sub-contractors on whose capacity they do not rely on, to satisfy any aspect of the SPDS.

Bidders unable to complete SPDS Part IV: Concluding Statements may be excluded from the competition.

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The complete ITT, with no pages omitted, must be submitted in accordance with instructions given, and be signed by an authorised

representative. Bidders should note that all documents listed in ITT Section 12 "Checklist of Required Documents" must be fully

completed and submitted to ensure the submission is considered complete. Failure to do so may result in the submission being deemed

non-compliant.

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All Bidders’ responses will first have their Single Procurement Document (SPD) response checked for compliance, including completeness

and accuracy. Failure to meet any of the mandatory requirements indicated will result in the Tender being considered non-compliant and

the bidder concerned will be excluded.

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Quality Questions - Minimum Score – If the average final score for any quality question response is below the minimum score requirement

set for that question, then the submission response will be deemed non-compliant. For the avoidance of doubt, if any quality question is

unanswered this will result in the bid being deemed non-compliant.

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Should a bidder achieve a score of zero in any element of the technical or commercial assessment, the Council reserves the right to deem their bid non-compliant. Such non-compliant bids will be removed from the evaluation process without further consideration.