Site Shunters and Trailer Maintenance

1. Financial Capacity

ECC has a bespoke 'Financial Assessment Form' spreadsheet, which uses the organisation's financial ratios to categorise financial risk levels. For Bidder's whose completed 'Financial Assessment Form' returns a 'high' or 'very high' risk level, the Authority requires a Parent Company Guarantee, bank bond, performance bond, or equivalent, upon the Authority's request and to the Authority's satisfaction, in order to meet the financial capacity conditions.

2. Required Insurance

The Bidder will be required to have in place prior to the Service Commencement Date (14th August) the following levels of insurance: Employer's Liability Insurance £5 million; Public Liability Insurance £5 million; Professional Indemnity Insurance £2 million

3. Modern Slavery

Relevant commercial organisations subject to the requirements of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 will need to confirm they are fully compliant with this legislation by Service Commencement Date.

4. Equality and Diversity

Bidders that have been had an investigation of unlawful discrimination upheld by an Employment Tribunal, an Employment Appeal Tribunal, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, or any other court or equivalent body, will need to provide evidence that they have implemented adequate remedial actions to prevent similar unlawful discrimination recurring, to the Authority's satisfaction.

5. Environmental Management

Bidders that have been convicted of breaching environmental legislation, or had any notice served upon it, in the last three years by an environmental regulator or authority, will need to provide evidence that they have implemented adequate remedial actions to prevent similar breaches recurring, to the Authority's satisfaction.

6. Health and Safety

Bidders are required to have a Health and Safety Policy that complies with current legislative requirements.

) Relevant experience

Bidders shall provide details of previous experience where they have delivered similar services in the last three years. These examples and their description must clearly demonstrate to the Authority's satisfaction that your organisation has sufficient technical and professional ability to be capable of delivering similar services to the requirements set out in the Specification.

Where the Bidder does not have any examples of previous contract, they must explain how their organisation has the technical and professional ability required to deliver similar services to the requirement set out in the Specification, describing the systems, staffing and infrastructure your organisation has in place, to the Authority's satisfaction.

2. Subcontracting

Where the Bidder intends to subcontract a proportion of the contract, the Bidder must provide a description of what measures they have in place to maintain a healthy supply chain with their subcontractors, to the Authority's satisfaction.