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Published 19 May 2023, 11:23 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Stairwell Cleaning (Close Cleaning) Services 2024 - 2027

Official notice

Authority: North Lanarkshire Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£1,600,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 23 Jun 2023awarded 11 Oct 2023
Awarded to Caledonian Maintenance Services Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Council is seeking to appoint a single contractor to provide a cyclical stairwell (close) cleaning service across a portfolio of around 700 public sector owned buildings located across all areas of North Lanarkshire. The programme involves the cleaning of communal areas within flatted or maisonette blocks across North Lanarkshire, the Blocks are up to 5 floors in height and are multi tenure, but the majority of residents are council tenants.

CPV: Other community, social and personal services · Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1The stairwell cleaning service, or close cleaning as it is known locally, involves…AwardedRenewalPublished value£1,600,000

The stairwell cleaning service, or close cleaning as it is known locally, involves cyclic cleaning of the communal areas of over 700 public sector flatted or maisonette properties, up to 5 floors in height. These properties are located across North Lanarkshire in all of the main towns. While a percentage of the blocks are multi-tenure the majority of residents are council tenants. The cyclical cleaning programme will include fortnightly general cleans, as well as more in depth monthly and quarterly cleans. In many areas a more extensive deep clean treatments will be required and on occasions ad-hoc specialist cleans will be required to include the removal of bodily fluids from communal close areas. 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.

Delivery: Scotland
Extensions: The Council intends to include an additional 1 x 12 month extension period which can be utilised should circumstances arise that such an extension is required.Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored
Quality: 40%Price: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 40
  • Price: 60
Conditions of participation3
  • Suitability

    Full details of the objective rules and criteria for participation are contained within the ITT document. Please refer to I.3 Communication within this Notice.

  • Economic & financial standing

    Bidders should refer to the requirements stated in the Qualification envelope within PCS-Tender.

    Minimum: Bidders should refer to the requirements stated in the Qualification envelope within PCS-Tender.
  • Technical & professional ability

    Bidders should refer to the requirements stated in the Qualification envelope within PCS-Tender.

    Minimum: Bidders should refer to the requirements stated in the Qualification envelope within PCS-Tender.
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

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
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
19 May 2023, 11:23 BST
Last source update
11 Oct 2023, 11:10 BST
Award evaluation window
23 Jun 2023 – …
Authority reference
NLC-CPT-22-178
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-029935
Classification (CPV)
Other community, social and personal servicesSewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM84)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03cdc9 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Performance terms

Further information is contained within the tender document suite and can be downloaded from the additional documentation area within the PCS-T portal.

Publisher note: TENDERERS PLEASE NOTE: Police Scotland identified a number of business areas which have a high risk of infiltration by Serious and Organised Crime groups; this Framework belongs to one such area and as such the Authority reserves the right to include enhanced probity checks prior to any contract award, including sharing tenderer information with Police Scotland. The tender pack includes a schedule for the Declaration of non-involvement in serious organised crime; this is a mandatory tender submission requirement for all tenderers. (SC Ref:747193)

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Public Contracts Scotland · Who buys & how to bid on PCS
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free single registration for Scotland; PCS-Tender (Jaggaer) for full bidding

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ ↗

Submission deadline
23 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
120 days from the deadline
Bids opened
23 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

23 Jun 2023 → 11 Oct 2023 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    23 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    23 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
  3. Notice published
    11 Oct 2023, 11:10 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    11 Oct 2023, 11:10 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £1,600,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 44 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 11 Oct 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Caledonian Maintenance Services LtdSME£1,600,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
4bids · 4 electronic · 4 from abroad4——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

North Lanarkshire Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Civic Centre, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell, Scotland, ML1 1ABContact email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Scottish CourtsReview body Edinburgh

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.