Emergency Standby Generators - Service, Inspect, Test, and Maintain

The University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a single contractor to Service, Inspect, Test and Maintain in a good and safe working order the emergency standby generator plant and associated equipment on the various systems throughout the University of Edinburgh Estate. The Contractor shall undertake service, testing and maintenance tasks in line with the requirements of the SFG 20 schedules and the manufacturer’s recommendations. As part of the major service a full load bank test shall be conducted. Minor Services constitute tasks scheduled on the Task Sheets with task frequencies of Quarterly and six monthly. Major Services incorporate these and those defined as annual tasks. The Contractor shall review the list of assets and their associated service and maintenance tasks and provide a programme of work based on the relevant maintenance task schedules to cover all assets for agreement with the University within two weeks of appointment. Equipment shall be properly maintained so as to prevent danger, and shall take account of manufacturers’ instructions in accordance with PUWER Regulation 5. The Contractor shall comply with all relevant statutory instructions and regulations. All parts and components shall be sourced from the plant or equipment original manufacturer. Any defective routine consumables, parts or components supplied and or installed under this contract, whilst undertaking the service and maintenance tasks shall be replaced at no cost to the University. Maintain appropriate stocks of spare parts for all the types of equipment (i.e. manufacturer sourced spare parts on a like for like replacement basis) consistent with achieving the equipment service availability. The Contractor shall support the Estate’s Electrical Engineer in the undertaking of a Black Start exercise, through the provision of attendance of engineer(s) to assist and monitor the exercise. Black Starts shall be programmed separately to the Minor and Major Servicing of the Power Generators. The Contractor shall be able to supply temporary generators of various output capacities for delivery and connection on site within a period of 24 hours of notification. Provision of the temporary generator is to include a fuel tank / day tank of adequate size to run the generator at full load for a period of 24 hours. During the Contract Term, the Contractor shall provide a Reactive Works call-out service to the University. Reactive Works refers to repairs that are done when equipment has already broken down, in order to restore the equipment to its normal operating condition. The Contractor shall respond to Reactive Works call outs within a period of 4 hours. All activities which install, remove, refurbish, maintain, mothball, put in service or remove assets from service will be required to undertake Asset Data Management duties. Through this service contract appointment the Contractor shall maintain an accurate database of their own and record asset information from maintenance visits. This database shall be aligned to the UoE Asset Management Guideline (AMG). The Contractor shall ensure all equipment they test and maintain has a UoE asset tag. If there is no asset tag they shall tag the asset in line with the AMG and fulfil the New Project leg of the Asset Data Management flow chart. During the course of the Contract, the Contractor shall submit quarterly progress reports to the University Building Services Group. During the course of the contract performance review meetings shall be held periodically with senior members of the Contractor and University Estates Building Services Engineer. The meetings shall be held monthly for the first three months and quarterly thereafter. For full details of service contract requirement the bidder is instructed to read Schedule 3 Statement of Requirement- Brief v6 contained within the tender. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if there are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015