Official UK procurement notice
Short-Term Hire of Operated Plant
Authority: Falkirk Council (Local council)
What is being bought9 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionFramework agreement award for the Short Term Hire of Operated Plant.
The agreement is split into the following 9 lots:-
Lot 1: Backhoe Loaders
Lot 2: Excavators
Lot 3: Low Loader Moves (Inter-site)
Lot 4: Pavers
Lot 5: Planers
Lot 6: Sweepers
Lot 7: Tipper Lorries
Lot 8: Bitumen Tanker/sprayers
Lot 9: Plant for Winter Services
- Recurrence: May 2025
CPV: Bitumen · Bitumen and asphalt · Construction work for highways, roads · Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads · Front-end shovel loaders with backhoe · Machines for mixing gravel with bitumen · Mechanical shovels, excavators and shovel loaders, and mining machinery · Paving and asphalting works · Planers · Road equipment · Road sweepers · Road-maintenance vehicles · +5 more
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 5 suppliers · 8 bids on the busiest of 9 lots (1.6 per place) · 13 appointed (full)
- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 1 Oct 2021
Lots and requirements (9)Procurement structure
9 lots · all with a published value · same evaluation weights on every lotEvery one of these 2 lots carries the same published figure, £900,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1Backhoe LoadersAwardedPublished value£800,000
Hire of Operated Backhoe Loaders at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Lot #2ExcavatorsAwardedPublished value£400,000
Hire of Operated Excavators at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Lot #3Low Loader Moves (Inter-site)Awardedceiling above
Hire of Operated Low Loaders at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Lot #4PaversAwardedPublished value£1,000,000
Hire of Operated Pavers at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Lot #5PlanersAwardedceiling above
Hire of Operated Planers at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Lot #6SweepersAwardedPublished value£500,000
Hire of Operated Sweepers at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Lot #7Tipper LorriesAwardedPublished value£1,500,000
Hire of Operated Tipper Lorries at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Lot #8Bitumen Tanker/sprayersAwardedPublished value£600,000
Hire of Operated Bitumen Tanker/Sprayers at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Lot #9Plant for Winter ServicesAwardedPublished value£100,000
Hire of Operated Plant for Winter Services at various sites within the Falkirk Council area of operations. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public
Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
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 sub-criteria (2)
- Qualitative: 30%
- price: 70%
Published award criteria (2)
- Qualitative: 30
- Price: 70
- Suitability
It is a requirement of this tender that if the Bidder is UK based they must hold a valid registration with Companies House. Where the
Bidder is UK based but not Registered at Companies House they must be able to verify to the Council’s satisfaction that they are trading
from the address provided in the tender and under the Company name given.
- Economic & financial standing
A Credit safe credit scoring check will be ran on registered Company Name and Company Number provided by the bidder. Where the
resulting Credit Rating score is less than 30/100 the bidder may be excluded from the tender process unless suitable financial information is
provided that gives satisfactory assurances to the Council regarding financial risk in appointing the bidder to the contract.
Minimum: Minimum level(s) of standards required: Public Contracts Regulations 2015 state that before awarding the contract, the Contracting Authority shall require the tenderer(s) to submit up to date supporting documents. This includes the insurance requirements stated in the Qualificati…
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “Short-Term Hire of Operated Plant” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 5 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
- Works
- 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 · May 2025
- First published
- 20 May 2021, 16:55 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Nov 2021, 16:05 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 21 Jun 2021 – …
- Authority reference
DEV/058/21- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-027459- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02b36dFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
As listed within the tender documentation.
Publisher note: 1. Successful Bidders were required to provide 3 examples of works carried out in the past five years to demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the work as described in part II.2.4 of the Find a Tender Service Contract Notice or the relevant section of the Site Notice. 2.Successful Bidders were required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract. 3. Successful bidders hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent), OR provided responses in relation to 4D.1.2 A through to G in the in the SPD(Scotland) Standard Statements v1.10. 4. Successful bidders hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS OHSAS 18001 (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 provide responses in relation to 4D.1.4a through to 4k in the SPD(Scotland) Standard Statements v1.10 5. Successful Bidders hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance with BS EN ISO 14001 (or equivalent) or a valid EMAS (or equivalent) certificate or provide responses in relation to: 4D.2.2a through to 4D.2.2G in the SPD(Scotland) Standard Statements v1.10. (SC Ref:672256)
How it was run
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- Appointment period ends
- 21 Jun 2021, 11:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 21 Jun 2021, 11:00 BST
Timeline
21 Jun 2021 → 2 Nov 2021 · 4 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown21 Jun 2021, 11:00 BST
- Bids opened21 Jun 2021, 11:00 BST
- Contract starts1 Oct 2021, 00:00 BST
- Notice published2 Nov 2021, 16:05 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete2 Nov 2021, 16:05 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast9 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 3 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £920,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Backhoe Loaders
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- £760,000
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Excavators
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- £240,000
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Low Loader Moves (Inter-site)
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Pavers
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Planers
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Sweepers
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- £400,000
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Tipper Lorries
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- £1,680,000
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Bitumen Tanker/sprayers
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- £600,000
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Plant for Winter Services
- Signed
- 19 Oct 2021
- Value
- £48,000
- Period
- … – 30 Sept 2025
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Backhoe Loaders | 7bids · 7 electronic · 7 from abroad | 6 | — | — |
| 2 · Excavators | 5bids · 5 electronic · 5 from abroad | 4 | — | — |
| 3 · Low Loader Moves (Inter-site) | 6bids · 6 electronic · 6 from abroad | 5 | — | — |
| 4 · Pavers | 4bids · 4 electronic · 4 from abroad | 4 | — | — |
| 5 · Planers | 3bids · 3 electronic · 3 from abroad | 3 | — | — |
| 6 · Sweepers | 8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad | 7 | — | — |
| 7 · Tipper Lorries | 4bids · 4 electronic · 4 from abroad | 3 | — | — |
| 8 · Bitumen Tanker/sprayers | 2bids · 2 electronic · 2 from abroad | 2 | — | — |
| 9 · Plant for Winter Services | 1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Falkirk Sheriff Court and Justice of the PeaceReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
13 commercial parties on the notice- AB2000 LtdFramework contractor
- Dr Plant Hire [Ratho] LtdFramework contractor
- Hillhouse Quarry Group Ltd T/A MacASPHALTFramework contractor
- J AND A CROZIERFramework contractor
- John McGeady LtdFramework contractor
- Joint2joint Spray Services LtdFramework contractor
- Lomond Plant LimitedFramework contractor
- Markon LimitedFramework contractor
- Matt McInally Plant Hire Co LtdFramework contractor
- Richard Murray Plant HireFramework contractor
Show 3 more suppliers
- Robert McCarroll LtdFramework contractor
- W. H. Malcolm LtdFramework contractor
- Wm Hamilton & Sons LimitedFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria