Official UK procurement notice
Winter Bureau Service and Maintenance Contract
Authority: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)·Consortium: 11 public authorities
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe Greater Manchester Combined Authorities (GMCA) have a responsibility to their residents to maintain the highway in a safe condition during the winter maintenance period. Each authority uses a number of specialised services and equipment that require a high degree of reliability and consistency in delivery to inform winter managers of forecasted weather conditions.
CPV: Weather-forecasting services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 1 bids on the busiest of 3 lots · 1 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Bureau SpecificationAwardedRenewal
The service will comprise of a Bureau Service as detailed below:
A computer service to interrogate the Weather stations on the following basis:
- ADSL – 10 minute intervals
- 3G/4G frequency of data transfer to be confirmed but expected every 10mins
- Interrogate and upload data and images at minimum 10 or 20 minute intervals where weather
station cameras are installed (depending on communication type)
- Provide live streaming camera images from weather stations with ADSL communications.
Lot #2Weather Station Maintenance ServiceAwardedRenewal
Weather Station Maintenance Service
The weather station operation and maintenance service is categorised as the following:
- Urgent and non-urgent repair works i.e. Cyclic and reactive maintenance
- Pre-winter period inspection and calibration of weather stations
- Winter period data calibration check
- Enhancements and modifications
- Weather station maintenance and repair costs will be the responsibility of each individual
AGMA Authority and will be dependent on the specification and number of weather stations
within and owned by that authority
Lot #3Service Management ModuleAwarded
The system should provide the following functionality that enables the user/s to manage their condition monitoring, forecast provision and decision making process-based on recognized standards ie NWSRG and Appendix H of Well Maintained Highways, including planning treatment of routes, distribution of decisions, recording actions taken, to provide a complete audit trail for each decision on each treatment route.
This service should be available as a fully integrated option to the main bureau visualization suite.
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 award criteria (2)
- Quality: 35%
- Price: 65%
- Price carries 65 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6.5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “Winter Bureau Service and Maintenance Contract” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, 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- 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
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 21 Apr 2022, 17:01 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Aug 2022, 16:41 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 23 May 2022 – …
- Authority reference
DN608898- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-022855- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032f50Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 23 Apr 2022, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 23 May 2022, 12:00 BST
Timeline
23 Apr 2022 → 17 Aug 2022 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown23 Apr 2022, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened23 May 2022, 12:00 BST
- Notice published17 Aug 2022, 16:41 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete17 Aug 2022, 16:41 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast3 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £50,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Lot 1 - Bureau Specification
- Signed
- 10 Aug 2022
- Value
- £80,000
- Status
- active
Weather Station Maintenance Service
- Signed
- 10 Aug 2022
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Service Management Module
- Signed
- 10 Aug 2022
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Bureau Specification | 1bids | — | — | — |
| 2 · Weather Station Maintenance Service | 1bids | — | — | — |
| 3 · Service Management Module | 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
10 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Bolton CouncilContracting authority
- Bury CouncilContracting authority
- Manchester City CouncilContracting authority
- Oldham CouncilContracting authority
- Rochdale Borough CouncilContracting authority
- Salford City CouncilContracting authority
- Tameside Metropolitan Borough CouncilContracting authority
- Trafford CouncilContracting authority
- Wigan CouncilContracting authority
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- Vaisala LimitedFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.