Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting 
        entity
      
I.1) Name and addresses
  Highlands and Islands Enterprise
  An Lòchran, 10 Inverness Campus
  Inverness
  IV2 5NA
  UK
  
            Telephone: +44 1463383084
  
            E-mail: hieprocurement@hient.co.uk
  
            NUTS: UKM6
  Internet address(es)
  
              Main address: http://www.hie.co.uk
  
              Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00313
 
I.1) Name and addresses
  Wave Energy Scotland Limited
  An Lòchran, 10 Inverness Campus
  Inverness
  IV2 5NA
  UK
  
            Telephone: +44 1463245245
  
            E-mail: wesprocurement@hient.co.uk
  
            NUTS: UKM
  Internet address(es)
  
              Main address: http://www.waveenergyscotland.co.uk
  
              Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA24283
 
I.1) Name and addresses
  Cairngorm Mountain (Scotland) Ltd
  Cairngorm Mountain, Cairngorm Ski Area
  Aviemore
  PH22 1RB
  UK
  
            Telephone: +44 1479861261
  
            E-mail: info@caingormmountain.co.uk
  
            NUTS: UKM6
  Internet address(es)
  
              Main address: https://www.cairngormmountain.co.uk
  
              Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA30513
 
I.1) Name and addresses
  Inverness Campus Owners Association
  C/O Highlands and Islands Enterprise, An Lòchran,
  Inverness Campus, Inverness
  IV2 5NA
  UK
  
            Telephone: +44 1463245245
  
            E-mail: ICOA@hient.co.uk
  
            NUTS: UKM62
  Internet address(es)
  
              Main address: https://www.invernesscampus.co.uk/
  
              Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA23323
 
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local agency/office
I.5) Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
  II.1.1) Title
Building Surveying Services
            Reference number: FTS040
  II.1.2) Main CPV code
  71315300
 
  II.1.3) Type of contract
  Services
  II.1.4) Short description
  Activities may include Ad-hoc building consultancy including surveys and condition schedules, Dilapidations, Management of Health and Safety, Energy Efficiency, Reinstatement Cost Assessments (RCA), Condition Surveys, Planned Preventative Maintenance, Managing construction works, Architectural Design services and Procurement of tenders.
  The Framework has a start date of 7.4.2025 and an end date of 6.4.2028 plus an optional 12 month extension.
  II.1.6) Information about lots
  
            This contract is divided into lots:
            
        No
      
  II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
  Value excluding VAT: 
				451 216.00 
				  GBP
 
II.2) Description
  
    II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
    71251000
    II.2.3) Place of performance
    NUTS code:
    UKM62
    UKM61
    UKM63
Main site or place of performance:
    Argyll and the Islands, Caithness and Sutherland, Inner Moray Firth, Lochaber, Skye and Wester Ross, Moray.
    II.2.4) Description of the procurement
    THIS FRAMEWORK HAS BEEN AWARDED. The figure used in II.1.7 and V.2.4 is the estimated Framework value including the optional extension period.
    II.2.5) Award criteria
    
                    Quality criterion: Cyber Security
                    / Weighting: pass/fail
    
                    Quality criterion: Prompt Payment
                    / Weighting: pass/fail
    
                    Quality criterion: Management & Delivery Methodology
                    / Weighting: 25%
    
                    Quality criterion: Management & Delivery Team
                    / Weighting: 20%
    
                    Quality criterion: Sustainability
                    / Weighting: 5%
    
                    Quality criterion: Community Benefits
                    / Weighting: 5%
    
                    Quality criterion: Fair Work
                    / Weighting: 5%
    
                    Price
                    
                      / Weighting: 
                      40%
    II.2.11) Information about options
    
            Options:
            
              Yes
            
    Description of options:
    HIE may require the supplier to provide additional services particularly with regard to demand and budgetary availability or where HIE’s strategic focus changes as a result of changes in Scottish Government policy or as a result of a direction given to them by the Scottish Government. Any such modification shall be in terms of Regulation 72 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. This may result in amendments to requirements under the Framework, including but not limited to:
    -	reduction/ removal of Services, e.g., HIE actioning more of the services or elements of the services themselves
    -	the addition of similar Services
    -	increasing the volume of Services
    II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
    
            The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
            
              No
            
    II.2.14) Additional 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.
   
 
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
  IV.1.1) Type of procedure
  
                        Open procedure
                        
  
                    IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
                  
  The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
  IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
  
                The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
                
        Yes
      
 
IV.2) Administrative information
  IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
  Notice number in the OJ S:
  2025/S 000-001114
 
Section V: Award of contract
          Contract No: FTS040
        A contract/lot is awarded:
        
        Yes
      
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
02/04/2025
V.2.2) Information about tenders
                Number of tenders received: 10
                Number of tenders received from SMEs: 6
                Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0
                Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 10
                Number of tenders received by electronic means: 10
              The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
              
        No
      
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
  Hardies Property & Construction Consultants
  The Signature Building, 8 Pitreavie Court
  Dunfermline
  KY11 8UU
  UK
  
            Telephone: +44 1383731841
  
            NUTS: UKM72
  The contractor is an SME:
        Yes
      
 
                V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
              
Total value of the contract/lot: 
					: 451 216.00 
					  GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
(SC Ref:793601)
VI.4) Procedures for review
  VI.4.1) Review body
  
    Inverness Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court
    The Inverness Justice Centre, Longman Road
    Inverness
    IV1 1AH
    UK
    
            Telephone: +44 1463230782
    
            E-mail: inverness@scotcourts.gov.uk
    Internet address(es)
    
              URL: https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/the-courts/court-locations/inverness-sheriff-court-and-justice-of-the-peace-court
   
  VI.4.3) Review procedure
  Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
  An economic operator that suffers, or is at risk of suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.
 
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
02/04/2025