Research Consultancy Services

Concepts

• research services
• stirling
• research and development
• consultancy services
• market and economic research
• market research
• economic research
• social research
• research consultancy services
• management consultancy

Location

Performance of the framework may be from a location identified by the contractor that is suitable and appropriate to the requirements

Description

A regulated ("Open") tender to establish a multi-lot, multi-supplier framework agreement for the provision of research consultancy services.

Lot Division

CPV Codes

• 73110000 - Research services
• 73210000 - Research consultancy services
• 73300000 - Design and execution of research and development
• 79300000 - Market and economic research; polling and statistics
• 79310000 - Market research services
• 79311400 - Economic research services
• 79315000 - Social research services
• 90713000 - Environmental issues consultancy services
• 72224000 - Project management consultancy services
• 79400000 - Business and management consultancy and related services
• 79421000 - Project-management services other than for construction work

Indicators

• Bids should cover one or more lots.
• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Financial restrictions apply.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.
• Award on basis of price.

Other 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. Please read the instructions provided in this Contract Notice and all the procurement documents, including where provided in response to the question or clarification. Any questions or clarifications must be raised using the messaging facility provided for this procurement procedure on the PCS-T web portal only. Direct approaches to Zero Waste Scotland or any of its management or staff regarding this procurement procedure may be considered an attempt to influence the outcome of this procurement procedure and may lead to your tender submission being disqualified. Your tender submission may be ruled non-compliant where you fail to follow the instructions and / or use the template documents provided in the procurement documents, unless alternative instructions and / or approaches to preparing a tender response have been agreed and communicated as appropriate through the PCS-T web portal for the procurement procedure. Responses to the SPD (Scotland) module will be evaluated using the scoring methodologies identified in the “ITT-4 Supplier Selection” document only. Technical responses will be scored using the Scottish Government’s recommended scoring convention, reproduced below and in the procurement documents for information: 4 – Excellent: Response is completely relevant and excellent overall. The response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the requirement and provides details of how the requirement will be met in full. 3 – Good: Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provides details on how the requirements will be fulfilled. 2 – Acceptable: Response is relevant and acceptable. The response addresses a broad understanding of the requirement but may lack details on how the requirement will be fulfilled in certain areas. 1 – Poor: Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains insufficient / limited details or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled. 0 – Unacceptable: Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate an ability to meet the requirement. An anticipated timetable for this procurement procedure is provided in the procurement documents. Zero Waste Scotland will inform all tenderers of decisions or delays at the same time, by email to the nominated contract only as identified in your tender submission. Please do not contact Zero Waste Scotland following the deadline for tender submissions to enquire if or when a decision will be made as we are generally unable and unwilling to respond. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 25202. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 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 Contractor will be required to ensure that they always deploy suitably qualified, trained, experienced and, where appropriate, supervised Staff in the performance of the framework agreement and the provision of Services under a Call Off Contract. This may be through subcontract arrangements as appropriate. Please refer to Condition 19 (Assignation and Subcontracting) for further details of requirements where subcontracting under this framework agreement. 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: The expectations for community benefits through this framework agreement are identified in the Part A - The Specification document, in Section 1 (Framework Management) under "Sustainability". (SC Ref:750470)