Recovery & Relocation Services for Vehicle and Plant Equipment

The Provision of Recovery & Relocation Services for vehicle and plant equipment.

Council requires recovery and relocation services for vehicles up to 44 tonnes for the provision of a 24 hours, 365 days per year recovery and relocation services as summarised below:

>Recovery service to include but not limited to:

all vehicles and plant equipment currently in the Council family’s fleet.

>Relocation Services to include but not limited to:

*Privately owned vehicles ahead of council related works,

*Privately owned vehicles ahead of council related events,

*Privately owned vehicles which are illegally parked.

The council has deemed the following /areas where the Relocation services will be required.

*Street to Street Uplifting – uplift from one street to another nearby street (please note that this service will be required for both events and other areas of the business and may involve multiple vehicles to be relocated.

*Street to Council premises/depots or another location

*Street to Service Provider premises

*Council premises/depot/multi storey car parks/other to another specified location

Bidders must provide copies of valid certification demonstrating compliance with the following minimum requirements:

Institute of Vehicle Recovery (IVR) Accreditation or equivalent ;

and

PAS 43 – Safe Working of Vehicle Breakdown and Recovery Operators Certification or equivalent

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

For SPD Questions 4D.1, 4D1.1, 4D1.2, 4D2, 4D2.1 and 4D2.2; Bidders should hold the relevant certificates for Quality Assurance Schemes and Environmental Management Standards . If Bidders do not hold the relevant certificates, they will be required to respond to supporting questions.

Bidders must complete Document Five – Health and Safety Questionnaire and submit it with the tender submission (Only questionnaires of the preferred bidders will have the health and safety aspect evaluated.

Freedom of Information Act

Information on the FOI Act is contained in Appendix A of the ITT. Bidders 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 (NB the council does not bind itself to withhold this information).

Tenderers Amendments

Bidders must enter any clause, condition, amendment to specification or any other qualification they may wish to make conditional to this offer.

Prompt Payment

The successful Service Providers 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 Service Provider shall also impose this condition on its sub-contractors in respect of payments due to any sub-sub-contractors, if any.

Non Collusion

Bidders will be required to complete the Non Collusion certificate.

Insurance Mandate

All successful Service Providers will be required to sign an Insurance Mandate, contained in the buyers attachments area within the PCS Tender portal 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 attachments area within the PCS Tender portal and are reference Document Two

Additional information pertaining to this contract notice is contained in the Invitation to Tender Document One.

Bidders must ensure they read all the attachments available in the attachment area in line with this contract notice.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 65491. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

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:

COMMUNITY BENEFITS POINTS AND THRESHOLDS:

420 points, community benefits points will be triggered once the spend reaches the undernoted threshold: -

Community Benefit Points Offered - Reaching spend threshold of 500k GBP - 120 points

Community Benefit Points Offered - Reaching spend threshold between 501k GBP to up to 1M GBP– Additional 180 points

Community Benefit Points Offered - Reaching spend threshold 3 - over 1M GBP – Additional 120 points.

Bidders are required to offer the minimum CB points as detailed above for each lot they are bidding for within this framework agreement as a mandatory requirement.

Bidders must confirm that they will meet these obligations in full by completing the relevant areas within the Community Benefits Menu and Methodlogy. Only Bidders who provide the desired points and provide completed menu and methodlogy will progress.