Official UK procurement notice
A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project
Authority: Transport Scotland
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTransport Scotland, on behalf of the Scottish Ministers, has identified the need to appoint a suitably experienced contractor for the design, construction, completion and maintenance of the proposed A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project which involves widening of approximately 9.6km of existing A9 single and overtaking wide single 2+1 (WS2+1) road carriageway to Dual 2 lane All-purpose roads Sub-category c (D2APc) standard, in accordance with ‘CD 109 Highway Link Design’ within the UK Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, between the existing dual carriageway sections to the south of Tomatin and to the north of Moy.
CPV: Access road construction work · Construction work for highways, roads · Culverts · Cycle path construction work · Dual carriageway construction work · Environmental improvement works · Erection of road-barriers · Excavating and earthmoving work · Footpath construction work · Grade-separated junction construction work · Installation of road signs · Paving and asphalting works · +7 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Transport Scotland is an agency of the Scottish Government and contracts in the name…AwardedPublished value£150,000,000
Transport Scotland is an agency of the Scottish Government and contracts in the name of and on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. Transport Scotland has identified the requirement to appoint a suitably experienced Contractor to design & build a new dual carriageway between the village of Tomatin to the south and Moy to the north.
The Contractor will be procured through a Competitive Dialogue procedure, in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Transport Scotland will manage the proposed procurement process for the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy contract on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. In the event of a Contract award, the Contract will be entered into between the Scottish Ministers and the successful tenderer.
The procurement process leading to the award of the Contract will comprise the following:
- Prequalification (SPD)
- Competitive Dialogue (approx. 16 weeks)
- Tender (approx. 4 weeks)
- Award
Detailed information regarding the award process and award criteria for the tender phase will be supplied to economic operators who are invited to participate in dialogue.
Transport Scotland shall notify Participants when the Competitive Dialogue phase has concluded and invite the Participants who have presented an acceptable solution to submit a final tender.
Due to the project’s complexity, the Contract requires to be performed by a single entity and as such shall not be divided into lots.
It is intended that the Contract will include the design and construction of the works which will last approximately 3 years, followed by a 5-year period of maintenance including defect correction and establishment of landscaping. The successful tenderer will not be required to carry out cyclic maintenance.
The intended form of contract is to be an NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) Option A: priced contract with activity schedule with amendments. Contract documentation will be provided at ITPD stage to shortlisted participants, however the DRAFT conditions of contract will be made available for all economic operators to review within the Information Pack. Refer to Section VI.3) for further information on how to access to the Information Pack.
Transport Scotland is providing a DRAFT of its conditions of contract to ensure prospective economic operators are informed as early as possible of the proposed contract. The DRAFT conditions of contract are subject to change and no obligation, liability, duty of care or responsibility to any party is created by or shall arise out of this.
Selected Participants, following the Competitive Dialogue stage, shall be invited to submit a final tender on the same contract terms and conditions.
To be considered for the prequalification stage, economic operators are required to complete and submit a Single Procurement Document (SPD) in accordance with this Contract Notice and the Supplementary Information Document (SID) which can be accessed via the Additional Documents located within the Additional Notice Options, this can be downloaded via the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗).
Economic operators shall be evaluated in accordance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, on the basis of the information they have provided within the SPD. Additional information: Any economic operator who meets the selection criteria set out in the tender documents at the initial evaluation but subsequently, prior to contract award, fails to meet such criteria, shall be excluded from this procurement competition.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Criteria including approach to delivery&management, technical aspects, construction, commercial, risk and sustainability aspects of the project. Further detail will be issued to shortlisted bidders.: 50%
- Final tenders will be assessed against evaluation criteria to determine the most economically advantageous submission. Further information will be issued to shortlisted bidders.: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
- Criteria including approach to delivery&management, technical aspects, construction, commercial, risk and sustainability aspects of the project. Further detail will be issued to shortlisted bidders.: 50
- Final tenders will be assessed against evaluation criteria to determine the most economically advantageous submission. Further information will be issued to shortlisted bidders.: 50
- Suitability
Economic operators must be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers kept in the Member state of its establishment (as described in Schedule 5 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015) (i.e., registered under Companies House). Economic operators should provide details under Question Ref. 4A.1.
Accreditation
Economic operators or their appropriate subcontractors must be accredited under National Highway Sector Scheme (NHSS). The relevant NHSS accreditations are included within the section VI.3 of the Supplementary Information Document.
Economic operators who are not accredited shall not progress beyond the assessment selection stage.
Economic operators must provide confirmation of the required accreditations under Question Ref. 4D.1, in accordance with the requirements of this Contract Notice.
Staff
The successful tenderer shall be required to comply with the CDM Regulations (2015) and to comply with all other relevant health and safety law. Additionally, all site staff are to be accredited under the Construction Skills Construction Safety Scheme (CSCS) or equivalent.
Standards and Specification
Subject to the other provisions of the Contract, the standards and specifications which the Contractor shall comply with include:
-UK Department for Transport Standards for Highways, specifically:
-Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB)
-Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works (MCHW)
-Transport Scotland Interim Amendments (TSIA)
-The Highland Counci…
- Economic & financial standing
Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. To determine these standards, economic operators shall:
a) in response to SPD, Question Ref. 4B1a provide the specified annual turnover for the last two years of trading, or for the period which is available if trading for less than two years;
b) in response to SPD, Question Ref. 4B.6 provide the name, range and score of nine financial criteria for each year for the last two years of trading, or for the period which is available if trading for less than two years; and
c) in response to SPD, Question Ref. 4B.5 confirm they already have or can commit to obtain, prior to commencement of the contract the required levels of insurance.
In addition to the information requested under (a) to (c), economic operators must provide a link / copies of the associated annual accounts as filed at Companies House (or equivalent if not a UK registered company). For the avoidance of doubt, if an economic operator fails to provide accounts relating to its last two full years of trading that are due to have been filed, that economic operator will be excluded from this procurement competition.
Where economic operators have not yet been trading for a full two year period, such that filed accounts are not yet due and available, and limited only to that circumstance, the required information to support (a) to (c) above may take the form of appropriate third party / statements setting out turnover, pro…
Minimum: Economic operators shall be required to satisfy minimum standards of economic and financial standing. These are described below: Evaluation Criteria Ratios (Question Ref. 4B.6) The following nine evaluation criteria shall be scored, for each year of the last two years of trading,… - Technical & professional ability
For 4C.1.1 economic operators shall be required to insert suitable responses to Statements (a) to (h) as summarised below and set out in full in the ‘Technical and professional ability questions’ within the Supplementary Information Document, available in the Additional Documents, within the Additional Notice Options of the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗), demonstrating that they have the required minimum standards of eligibility and technical and professional ability. Answers to these statements shall be provided by single economic operators and by groups of economic operators (group members should not respond individually).
Responses to Statements (a) to (c) shall be assessed on the basis of PASS or FAIL. Economic operators who fail to satisfy these minimum standards (either they answer ‘No’ or fail to provide an acceptable answer) shall be excluded from the procurement competition.
Responses to Statements (d) to (h) inclusive shall be assessed on the basis of a score from 0-5, with a minimum threshold. The scoring criteria and full statements can be downloaded via the Additional Documents, located within the Additional Notice Options of the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗).
A response shall be marked as a FAIL and will not be considered further if the score achieved for any statement is less than 2. Where a response is 2 or greater it shall be weighted in accordance with the following weightings: St…
Minimum: Statements (a) to (h) as summarised below and set out in full in the ‘Technical and professional ability questions’ document available in the Additional Documents, within the Additional Notice Options of the Public Contracts Scotland portal (www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk) Mi…
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 100 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 10 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Competitive dialogue
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 5 Sept 2023, 15:57 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Sept 2024, 16:31 BST
- Authority reference
TS/MP/WKS/2021/01- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-028000- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03fa2dFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
It is the Employer’s policy to measure the performance of the Contractor on a regular basis.
In the event that the Contractor’s performance falls below a satisfactory level, the Contractor will be invited to determine a means of rectifying the situation. Repeated or continual performance failures may result in suspension or termination of the contract.
Publisher note: For additional information, refer to the Supplementary Information Document available via the Additional Documents, located within the Additional Notice Options of the Public Contracts Scotland portal. To be considered for this procurement competition, economic operators should complete an SPD through the Public Contract Scotland portal and submit the completed SPD by no later than 12 noon BST on 11 October 2023. The deadline to submit questions relating to the submission is 12 noon BST on 29 September 2023 Transport Scotland shall implement a Participation Costs reimbursement mechanism for Tenderers who submit a compliant Tender submission but are unsuccessful, up to a maximum cap of 200,000GBP. This capped reimbursement will be in respect of Participation Costs in the circumstances and on the terms set out in a dedicated Participation Agreement which will be issued to tenderers at Invitation to Participate in Dialogue stage. For clarity, the term “Participation Costs” is anticipated to mean: 1. the Tenderer’s actual incurred external costs (including in relation to technical due diligence, geotechnical investigation, design, design check and road safety audit consultants); 2. the Tenderer’s disbursements (including travel and accommodation costs); and 3. the Tenderer’s direct internal costs such as staff time (as recorded in time sheets by those staff working in respect of the Procurement Process); provided that all of the above (i) have arisen directly from and during the Tenderer's involvement in the Procurement Process before the occurrence of one of the events set out in the relevant clauses within the Participation Agreement in Clause 3 or Clause 4 and (ii) in the reasonable opinion of the Scottish Ministers, have been reasonably, properly and demonstrably incurred by the Tenderer or which, in the reasonable opinion of the Scottish Ministers, are reasonably, properly and demonstrably due to be paid by the Tenderer. Head office overheads and head office management costs of the Tenderer, Member and/or its or their Associates, financing charges and profit (including any uplift or other profit sharing arrangement) shall not be Participation Costs. A project Information Pack will be made available to all prospective economic operators on 11 September 2023. Detail on the Information Pack will be in the Supplementary Information Document. This information is supplied without warranty and Transport Scotland shall be under no liability for any error, misstatement or omission of such information. To register to obtain access to this Information Pack on 11 September 2023, prospective economic operators are requested to contact [email protected]. (SC Ref:776917)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 11 Oct 2023, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 90 days from the deadline
Timeline
11 Oct 2023 → 2 Sept 2024 · 3 dates- Submission deadline11 Oct 2023, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected7 Nov 2023
- Notice published2 Sept 2024, 16:31 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete2 Sept 2024, 16:31 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balfour BeattySME | £184,702,663 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 028000-2024-1 · Balfour BeattySME
- Signed
- 30 Jul 2024
- Value
- £184,702,663
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3bids · 3 electronic · 3 from abroad | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Sheriff Clerk’s OfficeReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Balfour BeattyAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.