Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
The Skills Development Scotland Co. Ltd
Monteith House, First Floor, 11 George Square
Glasgow
G2 1DY
UK
Telephone: +44 1412256710
E-mail: Procurement@sds.co.uk
NUTS: UKM
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA12862
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at:
www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Other: Non Departmental Public Body
I.5) Main activity
Education
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Foundation Apprenticeships 2020-22
Reference number: P19-008
II.1.2) Main CPV code
80000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships (FA) across Scotland for participants commencing in academic year 2020. On behalf of Scottish Government, SDS has an ambitious target of 5 000 FA starts. The estimated contract value for this notice is for 5 000 FA starts. SDS may contract for a higher volume to ensure achievement of the 5 000 target overall. Delivery of each framework will require a partnership/sub-contractor or consortium approach to ensure delivery in line with regional demand. All arrangements will need to bring together colleges, local authorities, schools, training providers and employers to support ambitions of FA delivery across regions and frameworks for academic years 2020/22 for a 2-year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery. The target group is young people in senior phase of education in Scotland and there are currently 12 frameworks currently available for delivery.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
22 400 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
Yes
II.2) Description
Lot No: 1
II.2.1) Title
Lot 1: Aberdeen City and Shire
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM50
Main site or place of performance:
Aberdeen City and Shire.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver foundation apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved.
Lot No: 2
II.2.1) Title
Lot 2 - Ayrshire
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM93
UKM94
Main site or place of performance:
Ayrshire
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved.
Lot No: 3
II.2.1) Title
Lot 3 - Borders
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM91
Main site or place of performance:
Borders
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved
Lot No: 4
II.2.1) Title
Lot 4 - Dumfries and Galloway
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM92
Main site or place of performance:
Dumfries & Galloway
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved
Lot No: 5
II.2.1) Title
Lot 5 - Edinburgh, East Lothian & Midlothian
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM75
UKM73
Main site or place of performance:
Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved.
Lot No: 6
II.2.1) Title
Lot 6 - Fife
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM72
Main site or place of performance:
Fife
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved
Lot No: 7
II.2.1) Title
Lot 7 - Forth Valley
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM76
UKM72
UKM77
Main site or place of performance:
Forth Valley
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved
Lot No: 8
II.2.1) Title
Lot 8 - Glasgow
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM82
Main site or place of performance:
Glasgow
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved.
Lot No: 9
II.2.1) Title
Lot 9 - Highlands & Islands
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM6
Main site or place of performance:
Highlands & Islands
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved
Lot No: 10
II.2.1) Title
Lot 10 - Lanarkshire
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM84
UKM95
Main site or place of performance:
Lanarkshire
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved.
Lot No: 11
II.2.1) Title
Lot 11 - Tayside
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM71
UKM77
Main site or place of performance:
Tayside
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved.
Lot No: 12
II.2.1) Title
Lot 12 - West Lothian
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM78
Main site or place of performance:
West Lothian
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved.
Lot No: 13
II.2.1) Title
Lot 13 - West
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
80000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM8
Main site or place of performance:
West
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
SDS invites proposals to deliver Foundation Apprenticeships across Scotland for participants (young people in senior phase of education in Scotland) commencing in academic year 2020 for each of the 13 regions. Bids can be for a 2 year delivery and/or shorter duration delivery.
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 28
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
Yes
II.2.14) Additional information
The contract value and/or volumes may vary depending on the delivery achieved
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.4) Objective rules and criteria for participation
Statement 4B.5.1-3 economic and financial standing — insurance.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to commencement of any subsequently awarded contract the following insurance cover:
— employer's liability insurance: 5 000 000 GBP,
— public liability insurance: 2 000 000 GBP.
Statement 4B.6 — economic and financial standing — financials.
SDS shall carry out independent Financial Credit checks on your organisation. The checks undertaken shall provide SDS with information on your organisation's risk rating. It shall be as SDS discretion whether we deem the risk to be unacceptable and therefore may exclude your organisation from being taken any further in the procurement process. SDS also reserve the right to request further information, if no information can be found within the credit rating system, or the information is incomplete. Please ref to ITT document for further information on scoring of the risk rating.
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.11) Main features of the award procedure:
The scope of services to be provided under this contract falls within the definition of social and other specific services in Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts (Regulations 2015 (‘the regulations’) and therefore the procurement process shall be subject to the requirements of Section 7 of the Regulations. By virtue of regulation 76(3) of the regulations, bidders in any of the situations listed in regulation 58 of the Regulations may be excluded.
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
09/09/2019
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows
Electronic payment will be used
VI.3) Additional information
Statement 4C.1.2 technical and professional ability: bidders will be required to provide relevant examples that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services as described in Part II2.4 of the OJEU notice and ITT/specification documentation published. Bidders also required to provide details of principal business activities.
Organisations and/or their subcontractors must hold, or working towards obtaining, approved centre status from awarding bodies and/or sector skills Councils relevant to all of the education and vocational training services they wish to deliver that lead to accredited outcomes.
Section 5: Exclusion grounds — bidders may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contract (Scotland) regulations 2015;
Section 7: Insurance a per III.1 conditions for participation;
Section 8: Equal opportunities — pass/fail questions;
Section 9: Health and safety questions — pass/fail questions;
Section 10: Conflict of interest — pass/fail questions;
Section 11: Economic and financial standing — as per III.1 conditions for participation;
Section 12: read/understand Appendix 5 national rules — confirmation.
Part 1: Selection 13a principal business activities — pass/fail question;
Part 1: Section 13b equalities — pass/fail questions;
Part 1: Section 14 contract examples — bidders are required to provide 2 no similar type contracts to FAs within the last 3 years — pass/fail question;
Part 1: Section 15: Confirmation of coordinated approach — pass/fail.
If any of the questions in Part 1 are deemed a fail, your bid will not be taken any further in the procurement process. Award criteria methodology is scored 0-4 as detailed in the response document.
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 last minute problems.
Part 2: Evaluation/award criteria — 100 % quality consortia details should be provided.
Sub-contracting arrangements and details should be provided, in so far as they are known.
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=588202.
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:
Bidders can include sub-contracting as part of the delivery model, but it is not the only delivery model available
The Contracting Authority does not intend to include any community benefit requirements in this contract for the following reason:
Community benefits not relevant to this contract. This contract relates to training for young people and bidders as part of the supply chain set-up require to use sub-contracting or consortium.
(SC Ref:588202)
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The Skills Development Scotland Co. Ltd
Monteith House, First Floor, 11 George Square
Glasgow
G2 1DY
UK
Telephone: +44 1412256710
Internet address(es)
URL: www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
The Skills Development Scotland Co Ltd
Monteith House, First Floor, 11 George Square
Glasgow
G2 1DY
UK
Telephone: +44 1412256710
Internet address(es)
URL: www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
03/07/2019