Provision of Development Management Environmental Advice

The Authority seeks to engage a suitably qualified and experienced environmental consultant “the Contractor” to provide expert technical and environmental advice and to assist with the environmental assessments under the provisions of respective legislation and in relation to a range of development types.

The Development Management function of Orkney Islands Council (“the Authority”) as planning authority and competent authority has a duty to carry out a range of environmental assessments in relation to planning and other applications. The Authority seeks to engage a suitably qualified and experienced environmental consultant “the Contractor” to provide expert technical and environmental advice and to assist with the environmental assessments under the provisions of respective legislation and in relation to a range of development types.

The Contract duration will be from May 2022 for an initial period of 36 months. There will be two Authority held options to extend, each by 12 months.

Due to the nature of planning submissions, it is difficult to predict the timing, type or volume of applications received. Therefore, the Contractor may have periods where no work or assistance is required, but other periods were multiple and mixed application types are received concurrently and require attention, to meet respective statutory time periods.

The Contractor shall not be permitted to be involved in any planning application submitted to the Authority by either the Council or any third party during the term of the Contract.. The Contractor shall not be permitted to be involved in any planning application submitted to the Authority by either the Council or any third party during the term of the Contract.

Orkney Islands Council reserves the right to cancel the procurement at any stage and not award a Contract. the expenditure, work or effort

undertaken by bidders prior to the award of any Contract is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of bidders.

Late tenders will not be considered by the Council and all questions are to be submitted via the Questions and Answers section of this

contract advertisement on PCS.

An economic operator that suffers, or risks suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland)

Regulations 2015 may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or Court of Session.

Tenderers should complete the SPD (Scotland) contained within the SPD Module attached to this notice.