Fire Appliance Annual Inspections and Related Services
A Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency (VEAT) Notice
by SCOTTISH FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Framework (Services)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- £750K
- Sector
- TRANSPORT
- Published
- 11 Sep 2023
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Throughout Scotland
2 buyers
- Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Cambuslang
1 supplier
- Freight Transport Association Ta Logistics Tunbridge Wells
Description
Annual inspections of fire appliances equivalent to MOT inspections on light and commercial vehicles
Total Quantity or Scope
A single unified service across Scotland including its islands is required whereby a service provider will send out its own staff to fire stations to carry out inspections. Appliances must be inspected at their home operational stations as they cannot be removed from operational service for this purpose
Award Detail
| 1 | Freight Transport Association Ta Logistics (Tunbridge Wells)
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CPV Codes
- 71631200 - Technical automobile inspection services
- 71630000 - Technical inspection and testing services
Indicators
Legal Justification
No other potential service provider capable of providing the entire service on demand across Scotland has been found. “33.— (1) A contracting authority may award a public contract following negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice or prior information notice in any of the following cases……. (b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons……. (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons” ………………. where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement”
Other Information
(SC Ref:744276)
Reference
- FTS 026760-2023