Official UK procurement notice
NAC-5154 - School Work Experience & Employer Engagement
Authority: North Ayrshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Ayrshire Council is seeking to procure a single supplier to provide a schoolwork experience & employer engagement programme. The current contract ended on 30/06/2023. The new contract is anticipated to start on 01/10/2023 for a period of one year with up to thirty-six month extension available until 30/09/2027.
Tenderers must agree to accept NAC Terms and Conditions 2 (NAC TC2) Conditions of Contract for the Purchase of Services, NAC-5154 Exit terms and conditions an NAC-5154 Special Terms and Conditions and the contract will be let on these terms.
CPV: Technical and vocational secondary education services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1North Ayrshire Council require a supplier to administer the Work Experience programme…AwardedRenewal
North Ayrshire Council require a supplier to administer the Work Experience programme for all schools in North Ayrshire. This includes identifying placements, employer engagement to support placements and liaising with schools to support pupils. The contract is required to support the delivery of workplace experience placements to young people in line with the Careers Education Standard. There is an existing database of employers on an operational database (WorkIT) which NAC own, but the prospective supplier will maintain on our behalf schools’ access to source & book placements.
The database requires constant refresh and evaluation. This will require the supplier to work with employers to widen the range of business sectors offering placements to ensure that young people who have a clear set of career aspirations are able to have meaningful exposure to the demands of their chosen field. Local and national labour market intelligence will help to inform this.
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 award criteria (2)
- Quality: 40
- Price: 60
- Economic & financial standing
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly “specific” turnover of (100,000)GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.
North Ayrshire Council reserve the right to review the bidder's financial information using company watch financial analytics at tender stage and throughout the life of 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 = [10,000,000]GBP in respect of any one event
www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf ↗
Public Liability Insurance [5,000,000]GBP in respect of any one event
Third-Party Motor Vehicle Insurance
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.
- Technical & professional ability
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 (75,000), size and scope. 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 they and/or the service provider have the following relevant educational and professional
qualifications:
National Examination Board in Occupational Health and Safety (NEBOSH) qualification.
Bidders will be required to confirm that their managerial staff have the following relevant educational and professional qualifications:
National Examination Board in Occupational Health and Safety (NEBOSH) qualification.
Bidders are required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
Bidders who intend to subcontract more than 25% to any individual organisation must ensure the SPD (Scotland) - Subcontractors Supplier R…
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 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
- Services
- 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
- 3 Aug 2023, 15:02 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Dec 2023, 16:30 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 4 Sept 2023 – …
- Authority reference
NAC-5154- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-036006- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03eccfFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
Bidders may be excluded if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Publisher note: Lots are not being used for this tender for the reason(s) stated below: Nature of the contract not suitable for lots. Requires additional contract management resource which is not available. 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 ISO 45001 (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. Bidders may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 8 and 9 of the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (SC Ref:752579)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 4 Sept 2023, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 4 Sept 2023, 12:00 BST
Timeline
4 Sept 2023 → 6 Dec 2023 · 4 dates- Submission deadline4 Sept 2023, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened4 Sept 2023, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts1 Oct 2023, 00:00 BST
- Notice published6 Dec 2023, 16:30 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete6 Dec 2023, 16:30 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce | £199,992 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 036006-2023-NAC-5154 - School Work Experience & Employer Engagement-1 · Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce
- Signed
- 23 Nov 2023
- Value
- £199,992
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2024
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic | 2 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Kilmarnock Sheriff CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Ayrshire Chamber of CommerceAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.