Official UK procurement notice
Provision of a funeral and undertaking service
Authority: Fife Council (Local council)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionFife Council require suitably qualified contractors(s) to provide an undertaking and funeral service to ensure all persons in Fife who have no means to pay and have no-one who adopts responsibility for them to have a respectful burial/cremation. This requirement shall be split into 2 lots per area of Fife, tenderers can quote for any or both Lots.
- Recurrence: Late 2024
CPV: Funeral and related services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 2 suppliers · 2 bids on the busiest of 2 lots (1.0 per place) · 1 appointed
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1North FifeAwardedRenewal
Lot #2South FifeAwardedRenewal
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: 50
- Price: 50
- Suitability
Relevant selection criteria will be included in the SPD Scotland module.
- Economic & financial standing
The relevant selection criteria will be included in the SPD Scotland module.
Minimum: The relevant minimum levels will be included in the SPD Scotland module - Technical & professional ability
Relevant selection criteria will be included in the SPD Scotland module.
- 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.
- “Provision of a funeral and undertaking service” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 2 suppliers, not a single contract.
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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · Late 2024
- First published
- 1 Nov 2021, 13:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Jan 2022, 16:45 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 2 Dec 2021 – …
- Authority reference
CFM0036- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-001226- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02f220Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
Economic operators should approach the contracting authority in the first instance. However, the only formal remedy is to apply to the courts:
An economic operator that suffers, or is at risk of suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session
Publisher note: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contacts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. (SC Ref:679685)
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 2 Dec 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 2 Dec 2021, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
2 Dec 2021 → 14 Jan 2022 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown2 Dec 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened2 Dec 2021, 12:00 GMT
- Notice published14 Jan 2022, 16:45 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete14 Jan 2022, 16:45 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £252,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
North Fife
- Signed
- 12 Jan 2022
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
South Fife
- Signed
- 12 Jan 2022
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · North Fife | 2bids · 2 electronic | 2 | — | — |
| 2 · South Fife | 2bids · 2 electronic | 2 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Court of Session and Kirkcaldy Sheriff CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- Stewart Funeral GroupFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.