The Supply and Delivery of Laboratory Equipment, Supplies and Consumables

The council is inviting suitably qualified and experienced Bidders to submit bids for the Supply and Delivery of Laboratory Equipment, Supplies and Consumables for the undernoted 5 lots:

Lot 1-Chemicals

Lot 2-Laboratory Supplies & Consumables

Lot 3-Instrumentation Consumables

Lot 4-Pipettes & Consumables

Lot 5-Pre-Prepared Media

The council is inviting suitably qualified and experienced Bidders to submit bids for the Supply and Delivery of Laboratory Equipment, Supplies and Consumables.

Lot 1 requirements are as follows:

The service required is the provision of analytical chemicals for use within a laboratory.

The laboratory analyses a range of sample types i.e. Water samples, Environmental samples, Food/Feeds and Consumer Goods.

The lot incorporates a wide variety of chemicals including varying grades and quantities required.

Chemicals includes all the general chemicals used within a laboratory environment. The quantities required will vary dependant on the consumable on offer e.g. Nitric acid will be supplied in quantities of 500ml to 2.5 litres with varying grades e.g. ANALAR (laboratory grade to 99.5% Purity).. 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.

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 contained in the Qualification Envelope within the PCS Tender portal (NB the council does not bind itself to withhold this

information). Applicants will be required to complete the FOI certificate at ITT stage.

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 contained in the Qualification

Envelope within the PCS tender portal (at ITT stage).

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. Applicants will

be required to complete the prompt payment certificate contained in the Qualification Envelope area within PCS Tender portal.

Non – Collusion - Applicants will be required to complete the Non-Collusion certificate contained in the Qualification Envelope area

within the tender portal.

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 documents. Applicants must ensure

they read in line with this contract notice.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 26681. 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 requirements as detailed within Section 5 of the ITT document.