South of Scotland Electric Vehicle Charging Delivery Partner

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  "date": "2025-09-22T10:10:05+01:00",
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        "description": "A regional collaboration of Scottish local authorities wish to put in a place a concession contract for an electric vehicle charging network across a large geographical region. The authorities are City of Edinburgh Council (lead authority), Dumfries and Galloway Council, West Lothian Council, Midlothian Council, Scottish Borders Council, Clackmannanshire Council, Fife Council and Falkirk Council.\nThe concession contract will assume responsibility for the existing public charging estate. This will include migration of these assets from the Chargeplace Scotland network onto a new back office. Further to this, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund (EVIF) grant funding in the region of GBP6 million has been secured from Transport Scotland to support the expansion of the network by approximately 1800 additional chargepoints by 2030. The authorities will work with the operator throughout the contract term to support further network expansion beyond the initial expansion phase which may be funded from a range of sources.\nThe contract will be for a single operator who can provide a mix of charging solutions and capacities across the region with an expectation the majority by number will be long dwell time AC charging.\nThe back office software will facilitate fleet charging.\nThe tender process is expected to be as follows;\nInitial SPD submission to shortlist five operators.\nShortlisted operators will be invited to submit a proposal following which they will be invited to discuss and explore their proposal for the region.\nSubsequently shortlisted operators will be invited to submit a full tender.",
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    "description": "A concession contract for the operation, maintenance, and expansion of the public electric vehicle charging network across eight collaborating local authorities in the South of Scotland. The contract includes migrating existing ChargePlace Scotland assets to a new back-office system and delivering approximately 1,800 additional charge points by 2030.",
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    "reviewDetails": "A tenderer that suffers loss as a result of a breach of duty under The Concession Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016 may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session. The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) will have a minimum standstill period of 10 days before awarding the contract. The communication of the award decision notice will be sent by fax or e-mail to all tenderers with the standstill period commencing on the next day. If proceedings are started in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session against the Council in respect of the decision to award the contract within the standstill period then the Council is prevented from awarding the contract. Post contract award the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session may (1) award damages provided proceedings are brought within 3 months from the date when the grounds for the bringing of the proceedings first arose (2) be entitled to issue an ineffectiveness order or impose a financial penalty on the Council. A claim for an ineffectiveness order must be made within 30 days of the Contract Award Notice being published in the FTS or within 30 days of the date those who expressed an interest in or otherwise bid for the contract were informed of the conclusion of the contract or in any other case within 6 months from the date on which the contract was entered into.",
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  "description": "The successful tenderer will be required to work with the City of Edinburgh Council to complete a cyber security assessment. This will include a requirement for supporting evidence/accreditations, such as ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, PEN tests, etc.\nThe named authorities within the South of Scotland group include the City of Edinburgh Council, Midlothian Council, West Lothian Council, Falkirk Council, Clackmannanshire Council, Fife Council, Scottish Borders Council and Dumfries and Galloway Council. The City of Edinburgh Council reserves the right to continue the procurement exercise should an individual authority wish to withdraw prior to contract award.\nThe Contract length is expected to be an initial term of 15 years with the possibility of an extension of up to 5 years.\nThe buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this PQQ exercise. The Project code is 29854. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343\nCommunity benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/\nA summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:\nCommunity Benefits will be sought across the lifetime of this contract to be delivered across the region. Further information will be provided to short listed tenderers prior to seeking a proposal.\n(SC Ref:804568)",
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