Official UK procurement notice
Design and Build of a Solar PV Farm at Nethermains, Kilwinning
Authority: North Ayrshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Ayrshire Council (“NAC”) invites tenders for the design and build of a solar PV farm at Nethermains, Kilwinning). The resultant contract will be for a period of 56 months, including 8 months design and build, 12 months operation and 48 months maintenance commencing October 2021 until May 2026 with the option to extend the operation by up to 6 months until November 2023 and the maintenance by up to 16 years until May 2042. The operation and maintenance will run together in year 1 and potentially year 2 if the operation extension is utilised.
CPV: Construction work for electricity power lines · Electricity distribution and control apparatus · Electricity distribution and related services · Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy · Installation services of electricity distribution and control equipment · Repair and maintenance services of electricity meters · Solar installation · Solar panels · Solar photovoltaic modules · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat 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 (5)
- Solar PV Programme of Works: 10%
- Operation and Maintenance Arrangements: 10%
- Health and Safety: 10%
- Solar PV Design and Equipment: 20%
- price: 50%
Published award criteria (5)
- Solar PV Programme of Works: 10
- Operation and Maintenance Arrangements: 10
- Health and Safety: 10
- Solar PV Design and Equipment: 20
- Price: 50
- Suitability
If required, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.
Bidders must confirm if they hold the particular authorisation or memberships.
- Economic & financial standing
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly “general” turnover of 6,768,000 GBP for the last 3 years.
North Ayrshire Council reserve the right to review the bidders financial information including information from credit reference agencies at tender stage and throughout the life of the contract, and seek clarifications if necessary. If clarifications are not satisfactory the bidder may be excluded from the tender process.
Bidders who cannot meet the required level of turnover will be excluded from this tender.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 5,000,000 GBP each and every claim and unlimited in the period.
Public Liability Insurance = 5,000,000 GBP each and every claim and unlimited in the period.
Product Liability Insurance = 5,000,000 GBP in the aggregate in the policy period.
Professional Indemnity Insurance = 10,000,000 GBP each and every claim, unlimited in the period and for a period of 6 years following completion of the contract or earlier termination.
- Technical & professional ability
Bidders will be required to provide a minimum of 2 examples of works carried out in the past 5 years that demonstrates they have the relevant experience to deliver the work as described in part II.2.4 of the Contract Notice. Example 1 should include the design and build of a similar PV farm and Example 2 should include a large-scale energy renewable project. Unsatisfactory experience will result in exclusion from the tender process.
Bidders must also provide two satisfactory references for the same two contracts on the reference templates provided. References should be completed and signed by previous customers. If any of the referees score the bidder less than 2 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.
Completed experience and reference templates must be zipped and uploaded at question 4C.1 of the qualification envelope.
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 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
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- 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
- 15 Jun 2021, 09:35 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Feb 2022, 14:14 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 23 Jul 2021 – …
- Authority reference
NAC/5061- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-004672- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02bbfdFind a Tender
- Performance terms
Please refer to NAC-5061 Technical Specification.
Publisher note: Lots are not being used for this tender for the reasons stated below: Nature of the contract not suitable for lots. Delivery of the contract is location specific. Quality Management Procedures 1. The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent) or a documented policy regarding quality management, see attachment at SPD question 4D.1. Health and Safety Procedures 1. The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS OHSAS 18001 (or equivalent) or have, within the last 12 months, successfully met the assessment requirements of a construction-related scheme in registered membership of the Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) forum or the bidder must have a regularly reviewed and documented policy for Health and Safety management, see attachment at SPD question 4D.1. Environmental Management Procedures 1. The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 14001 (or equivalent) or a valid EMAS (or equivalent) certificate or the bidder must have a regularly reviewed documented policy regarding environmental management, see attachment at SPD question 4D.2. (SC Ref:683982)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 23 Jul 2021, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 23 Jul 2021, 12:00 BST
Timeline
23 Jul 2021 → 18 Feb 2022 · 3 dates- Submission deadline23 Jul 2021, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened23 Jul 2021, 12:00 BST
- Notice published18 Feb 2022, 14:14 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to cancelled18 Feb 2022, 14:14 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Kilmarnock Sheriff CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.