Maritime Mile Design Consultancy

Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly “general” turnover of 500000GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.

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 = 10M GBP in respect of each claim, without the limit to the number of claims. www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf ↗

Public Liability Insurance 10M GBP in respect of each claim, without the limit to the number of claims.

Professional Indemnity Insurance 2M GBP with an aggregate limit of 5M GBP

Third-Party Motor Vehicle Insurance 5M GBP in respect of each and every claim without limit to the number of claims

A valid motor vehicle certificate must be held in the company name or (where there is no fleet but rather the company permits its employees to use their personal vehicles for business purposes), a letter signed by a person of appropriate authority - confirming that the company has ongoing arrangements in place to ensure their employees' vehicles are appropriately insured and maintained.

Bidders are required to provide 2 examples of services carried out in the past 3 years that demonstrates they have the relevant experience to deliver the services described in the Contract Notice. The services must be of a similar value, size and scope. The examples provided must demonstrate successful completion of similar projects including design and management of multidisciplinary design team. The minimum project value NAC will accept as an example is between 5M GBP and a maximum of 7M GBP. Unsatisfactory experience will result in exclusion from the tender process.

Bidders must also provide 2 satisfactory references for the same 2 contracts on the reference templates provided. References should be completed and signed by previous customers for contracts of a similar value, size and scope. 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 that their managerial staff have the following relevant educational and professional qualifications:

The minimum educational and professional qualifications required shall be those officially recognised by the relevant governing body for the specific profession, ensuring compliance with UK regulations and allowing the individual to lawfully carry out their duties; as a minimum educated to a degree level or equivalent in their rele…