Salt for Winter Road maintenance

This framework is for the supply and delivery of bulk rock salt, bagged salt, bulk marine salt, bulk treated salt, de-icing products as well as associated equipment and accessories.

Supply and delivery of 6.3mm and/or 10mm Bulk Marine Salt to Council Depot/Salt Store.. 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. Please see the Invitation to Tender contained on the PCS-Tender project relevant to this procurement and the other Procurement Documents for further information.

Scotland Excel, as a central purchasing body, is procuring this framework for the use and benefit of its members namely:

• The 32 local authorities in Scotland and Scotland Excel associate members: all as listed at https://home.scotland-excel.org.uk/about-us/our-members ;
• Tayside Contracts;
• APUC Ltd and their member organisations across the higher and further education sector in Scotland and their associated and affiliated bodies;
• NHS Scotland entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978;
• Scottish Prison Service and all establishments owned and managed by the Scottish Ministers through the Scottish Prison Service; and
• Any integration authority, or other body, established pursuant to the Public Bodies (Joint Working)(Scotland) Act 2014.

The above is subject to each contracting authority entering into and maintaining a relevant membership agreement or other access agreement with Scotland Excel.

Tenderers are advised that whether electronic ordering, invoicing and payment (section V1.2 above) will be used or accepted is at the discretion of each Local Authority Member or Associate Member which will be settled by them during call-off of a contract under this proposed Framework Agreement.

Subcontractors on whose capacity the Tenderer does not rely: Scotland Excel will request the following information in the SPD(Scotland):

• whether the Tenderer intends to subcontract any share of the contract to a third party;
• list of the proposed subcontractors as far as it is known at that stage; and
• what proportion / percentage of the contracts to be called-off under the proposed framework agreement does the Tenderer intend to subcontract.

Please note that these subcontractors on whose capacity the bidder does not rely will be subject to the rules regarding Exclusion as set out above (section III).

Further to IV.1.6, electronic auctions may be used at the point when Councils enter into Call-offs under the Framework. In that event, Councils will set out relevant information in the procurement documents related to their requirement in accordance with Regulation 36 (Electronic Auctions) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Bidders should note that retrospective rebates apply to this Framework. Details can be found within the Framework Contract document.

Suppliers will be required to provide management Information (MI) and KPIs on a quarterly basis and report on Community Benefits provided bi-annually.

MI requires an itemised statement for goods and services provided for each contracting authority who will be permitted to purchase under this proposed Framework Agreement down to a defined categorisation structure set out in the MI template.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 21298. 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:

In accordance with section 25(3) of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 note that, Scotland Excel intends to include community

benefit requirements. As part of your response within the Technical criteria, Bidders will be requested to commit to delivery of community

benefits in accordance with the methodology outlined in the tender documents.