PfH Provision of Technical Support Services

Concepts

• technical support
• stirling
• cih
• procurement for housing
• pfh
• pfh provision of technical support services
• provision of a variety of professional support services
• wide range of services
• survey services
• architectural services

Location

Scotland:

Description

Established in 2004, Procurement for Housing (PfH) is a national procurement consortium dedicated to the social housing sector and supported by the National Housing Federation (NHF), Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and HouseMark. Collectively our Members manage more than 75% of UK’ social housing stock, with PfH helping them to achieve efficiency savings using a wide range of services including framework agreements, spend analyses, strategy reviews, consolidated billing and comprehensive reporting. PfH is a contracting authority under Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR 2015”) and a central purchasing body under regulation 37 PCR 2015. Please refer to www.pfh.co.uk for additional information. This tender is for the provision of a variety of professional support services which are required in order to support the Assets function of Clients throughout Scotland.

Lot Division

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 71356300 - Technical support services
• 71250000 - Architectural, engineering and surveying services
• 79311000 - Survey services
• 71251000 - Architectural and building-surveying services
• 71315300 - Building surveying services
• 71315400 - Building-inspection services
• 75251110 - Fire-prevention services
• 71541000 - Construction project management services
• 72224000 - Project management consultancy services
• 79421000 - Project-management services other than for construction work
• 71244000 - Calculation of costs, monitoring of costs
• 71324000 - Quantity surveying services
• 71322100 - Quantity surveying services for civil engineering works
• 71314200 - Energy-management services
• 71314000 - Energy and related services
• 71314300 - Energy-efficiency consultancy services
• 71317200 - Health and safety services
• 71243000 - Draft plans (systems and integration)
• 71320000 - Engineering design services
• 79415200 - Design consultancy services
• 45351000 - Mechanical engineering installation works
• 45315100 - Electrical engineering installation works
• 71335000 - Engineering studies
• 71313410 - Risk or hazard assessment for construction
• 71315000 - Building services
• 71315200 - Building consultancy services
• 71315210 - Building services consultancy services
• 71321000 - Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings
• 71333000 - Mechanical engineering services
• 71334000 - Mechanical and electrical engineering services
• 71314100 - Electrical services
• 71318100 - Artificial and natural lighting engineering services for buildings
• 71310000 - Consultative engineering and construction services
• 71318000 - Advisory and consultative engineering services
• 71220000 - Architectural design services
• 71221000 - Architectural services for buildings
• 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
• 80500000 - Training services
• 90711100 - Risk or hazard assessment other than for construction
• 71356000 - Technical services
• 71621000 - Technical analysis or consultancy services
• 71630000 - Technical inspection and testing services
• 72220000 - Systems and technical consultancy services
• 80531200 - Technical training services
• 80550000 - Safety training services
• 72221000 - Business analysis consultancy services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are not available.
• Financial restrictions apply.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Technical restrictions apply.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** 1) Bidders may be excluded if they are in any of the situations referred to in Reg.58 of the PCSR 2015. 2) If required bidders must be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers of their country. 3) Bidders must state what elements they expect to subcontract. 4) Quality assurance. Bidders must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 or can demonstrate robust equivalent quality standards in accordance with Document 5b. 5) Health and Safety. Bidders must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance in accordance with ISO 45001 or has within the last 12 months met the assessment requirements of a construction related scheme in registered membership of the safety schemes in procurement (SSIP) or; can demonstrate robust equivalent health and safety standards in accordance with Document 5b. 6) Environmental. Bidders must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third-party certificate of compliance with ISO 14001 or can demonstrate robust equivalent environmental standards in accordance with Document 5b. This Framework may be used by any contracting authority listed in or referred to in the FTS / PCS Notice. This includes: All current members of PfH at the time of the FTS / PCS notice for this procurement; Any registered provider of social housing (or Welsh registered social landlord ,or Scottish registered social registered social landlord) that becomes a member of PfH during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any public authority (as defined in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for public authorities in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and UK-wide public authorities based in Scotland, or as defined in the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 for Scottish public authorities) that becomes a member of PfH at any time during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any local authority (as defined in the Local Government Act 1972 for public authorities in England and Wales or as defined in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 for Scottish local authorities or as defined in the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 for local authorities in Northern Ireland) that becomes a member of PfH at any time during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any housing Arm's Length Management Organisation (ALMO) that becomes a member of PfH during the period of the Framework Agreement; Any wholly owned subsidiaries of any of the above Organisations And any other contracting authority listed on the following page of the PfH website http://procurementforhousing.co.uk/permissible-users/ at the time of the FTS / PCS notice for this procurement. 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=699600. 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. The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason: The level of subcontracting will depend on the call-off contract. 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: Bidders are required to state the social and community benefits that they will offer under call-off contracts. (SC Ref:699600)