Festive Lighting

The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) intends to appoint a suitably experienced Contractor to install, commission, maintain, and remove temporary festive lighting infrastructure at various locations throughout the City.

The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) intends to appoint a suitably experienced Contractor to install, commission, maintain, and remove temporary festive lighting infrastructure at various locations throughout the City.

This Contract falls within the scope of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.

The Contractor will work with the Winter Festivals Contractor(s) to ensure festive lighting for the City is managed, installed and derigged in a coordinated way in all communities. This is particularly important in relation to community events “switch-ons” where the Contractor will need to work closely with the Council’s Winter Festivals Contract Manager to ensure these important community events are well managed and delivered to a high standard.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 25365. 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:

The City of Edinburgh Council operates a Community Benefits in Procurement programme. As part of this procurement it is mandatory to deliver Community Benefits, in line with the CT1290 Community Benefits Contract Guidance document provided with this Tender.