Security Systems Maintenance and Associated Services

This procurement was conducted via the Public Contracts Scotland - Tender portal (PCS-T) using a one stage Open procedure. The tender closed 1st December 2021 and the following evaluation process was adhered to:- Bidders must self-certify their adherence to the conditions of participation via the SPD (Scotland) in PSC-T. Bidders must refer to the specific requirements listed in the Section III in this Contract Notice when completing the SPD in PCS-T. Bidders should note that these are mandatory pass/fail requirements and that failure to provide adequate evidence on request of how these requirements shall be met will result in automatic exclusion from the Tendering process. Each Bidder passing the Minimum Standards will then be subject to a technical and commercial evaluation. Bidders will be required to confirm they can meet the required maximum response times on site. Failure to confirm and demonstrate this in their responses to the technical questions will result in the Bidder being automatically excluded. 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. UoE reserve the right to apply their own judgement based on experience from similar contracts to determine if response is feasible. If bidders knowingly cannot fulfil this, they should discontinue this application. A technical threshold will apply - bids will be required to achieve a minimum score of 30 percent or more of the overall technical score of 60 percent in order to progress to the commercial stage of evaluation. Commercial scores shall be allocated on a comparative basis with the lowest overall price receiving full marks and others a percentage of that mark according to the difference between their bid and the lowest offer. Where we consider any of the total price(s) you have submitted to be abnormally low we will ask you to explain the price(s) you have submitted (as required in regulation 69 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015). The quality and commercial score will be combined to give each bidder, who has passed the technical threshold, an overall total score. The supplier with the highest total score will be deemed to have provided the most economical advantageous tender (MEAT).