NatureScot - Great Glen House, Inverness ~ TFM Tender

The successful Supplier will be required to provide TFM Services for NatureScot’s Headquarters in Inverness. NatureScot, Great Glen House, Leachkin Road, Inverness, IV3 8NW

Please note: the Site Visit for this tender will be taking place Wednesday 1st June 2022 at 10am. Please confirm your attendee names (max 2) by 30th May.

Please note: This is running as an Open Tender Procedure, via the Litmus Tender Management System (LTMS). Bidders will be required to submit both their SQ response and also their Tender Response by the same deadline of : 1st July 2022 at 17:00.

Please use the following links to submit your SQ and your Tender responses via LTMS portal:

SQ Response : To submit your SQ Response, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/32S953CRV3

Tender Response : To submit your Tender Response, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/EP4K49DZBZ

Please note that The Litmus Partnership Ltd is publishing this Contract Notice on behalf of our client, NatureScot.

The successful Supplier will be required to provide TFM Services for NatureScot’s Headquarters in Inverness

NatureScot, Great Glen House, Leachkin Road, Inverness, IV3 8NW

The agreement term will be 3 years from October 2022 with an option to extend annually for up to a further 2 x 1 years.

Turnover estimated at 250,000 GBP per annum. With total potential contract turnover over full lifetime of the contract 1.25 million GBP.

NatureScot is the Scottish Governments nature agency. They work to improve the natural environment in Scotland and to inspire everyone to care. Their work focuses heavily on environmental and sustainability, and the tender responses must consider the clients commitment to environmental and sustainability in Scotland.

NatureScot is based in Great Glen House, Inverness, and shares its building with tenants from other Government departments. The building has a capacity of 365 people. NatureScot now seeks to tender their Total facilities Management services at Great Glen House, as their current contract comes to a natural end.

More information on NatureScot can be found here https://www.nature.scot/about-naturescot

A site visit for bidders has been arranged for Wednesday 1st June at 10am. Location Nature Scot, Great Glen House, Inverness IV3 8NW. The bidders may have 2 representatives at the bidders meeting. Please advise names of the attendees by Monday 30th May at 12.00pm through the LTMS portal message centre.

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Please note: This is running as an Open Tender Procedure. Bidders will be required to submit both their SQ response and also their Tender Response by the same deadline of : 1st July 2022 at 17:00.

Please use the following links to submit your SQ and your Tender responses:

SQ Response : To submit your SQ Response, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/32S953CRV3

Tender Response : To submit your Tender Response, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/EP4K49DZBZ

Tender Objectives

NatureScot are seeking to procure the delivery of FM services to their Inverness Headquarters building. NatureScot are seeking a service delivery solution for the provision of FM services to the building which will include both hard and soft FM services.

The objectives of the proposed FM service delivery solution, are as follows:

The creation of a partnership between NatureScot and the successful Service Provider

1. A truly integrated approach to service delivery model, to ensure full statutory and legislative compliance in the delivery of FM services to the HQ facilities.

2. To provide a level of consistency of service delivery against service level agreements, to the facilities.

3. Professional leadership, management and supervision of the FM staff to ensure a continuity of staffing i.e. the deployment of appropriately trained staff at all times including periods of absence cover.

4. Provide the flexibility to respond to changing service requirements as the NatureScot facilities develop.

5. Deliver a solution that as environmentally friendly, and sustainable as possible.

Please see SQ Document (available to download via LTMS - https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/32S953CRV3 ) for further information.. Please note that The Litmus Partnership Ltd is publishing this Contract Notice on behalf of our client, NatureScot.

Please note that The Litmus Partnership Ltd is publishing this Contract Notice on behalf of our client, NatureScot.

It will be the supplier's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time.

The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this contract notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time.

The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity.

The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid.