CT0818 Council Records - Storage and Management (Second Publication)

Concepts

• storage services
• edinburgh
• scotland
• ct0818 council records
• public records
• storage and warehousing
• retention policy management solution
• secure offsite storage arrangements
• offsite storage
• online inventory management solution

Location

Scotland: The City of Edinburgh

Description

The Council has an ongoing requirement for offsite storage and management of its paper records. Interested parties must be able to provide: - Secure offsite storage arrangements for up to 65,000 boxes; - Routine and Emergency Access requirements to boxes and files (on-site and delivery); - Online inventory and retention policy management solution (Accessible to Council Staff); and - Secure and auditable disposal of records.

Total Quantity or Scope

Centralised offsite storage of Council records has been a long-standing requirement, which has become essential over the years due to office rationalisations and increasing compliance requirements around Scottish public sector records management. The Council requires new arrangements for its offsite storage and management of its paper records. This is a recurring need and breaks down as follows: - Secure offsite physical storage arrangements for up to 65,000 boxes at the start, but aiming to reduce this significantly over a 10 year period. - Routine and emergency access requirements to boxes and files, both onsite and by delivery to multiple Council office locations via dedicated transport. - Online inventory management solution that manages both boxes and individual files (where required), including audited and authenticated disposal and retrieval processes, legal holds, classification by business function and data sensitivity, and record retention policy management. - This solution must also provide self-service access to a wide range of Council staff that need to store, retrieve / return and dispose of boxes stored under this arrangement. Under the Public Records (Scotland) Act, 2011, the Council is required to create, manage and apply record retention policies to all of its records. Currently the Council has over 900 individual retention policies – covering adoptions through to waste site management. Additional information: Please note: - Appendix 4 has now been added to the Tender Pack; and - The Pricing Schedule has now been updated.

Renewal Options

Initial 5 year contract term, with two optional extensions of 3 and 2 years. (5+3+2).

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 63121100 - Storage services
• 63120000 - Storage and warehousing services
• 63121000 - Storage and retrieval services
• 72317000 - Data storage services

Indicators

• This is a recurring contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=671853. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-pr... A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Please refer to the supporting document titled 'Community Benefit Guidance' (SC Ref:671853)