Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Tayside Procurement Consortium
Fairmuir Depot, 365 Clepington Road
Dundee
DD8 3DZ
UK
Contact person: Julie Thompson
Telephone: +44 1382834072
E-mail: julie.thompson@dundeecity.gov.uk
NUTS: UKM7
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.taysideprocurement.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA12382
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Bureau Services - Winter Forecasting TPC2214
Reference number: TPC/BUREAU/22/14
II.1.2) Main CPV code
71351610
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Systems for managing information relating to the provision of our Winter Roads Maintenance Service from 1 October to 30 April only. Presently this involves communicating with Vaisala road sensors.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
930 815.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM7
UKM50
UKM62
UKM71
UKM77
Main site or place of performance:
Angus, Dundee, Perth & Kinross, Aberdeen City and Shire, Moray
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Systems for managing information relating to the provision of our Winter Roads Maintenance Service from 1 October to 30 April only. Presently this involves communicating with Vaisala road sensors.
The successful service provider shall provide a system that will:
a) display information via a map based user interface and permit access to underlying data from this display.
b) display road sensor data to a resolution of not less than 10 minutes.
c) permit data outputs in tabular and graphical formats
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Cost Criterion
/ Weighting: 50
Price
/ Weighting:
50
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
Additional purchases may be required throughout the term of the contract relating the provision of Bureau Services and allowing the optimum solution to be available maximising accuracy of the provision.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the Directive
Explanation
The market structure suggests an oligopoly, however as our current network is made up of Vaisala sensors and components, previous procurement exercises have suggested monopolistic competition where only Vaisala can provide the full provision. This we believe is due to the cost of change and each of the providers not being able to support each others components and collation of data from said components. If to be fully tender, we do not believe a differing outcome would be achieved due to the factors mentioned above.
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:
2022/S 000-007871
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: Bureau Services - Winter Forecasting TPC2214
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
14/03/2022
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 1
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Vaisala Ltd
6230 Bishops Court, Solihull Parkway,, Birmingham Business Park,
Birmingham
B37 7YB
UK
Telephone: +44 1216831244
NUTS: UKG31
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 930 815.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Contract Commences 1 October 2022.
(SC Ref:696960)
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Dundee Sheriff Court & Justice of the Peace Court
Sheriff Court House, 6 West Bell Street
Dundee
DD1 9AD
UK
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Scottish Courts Service
Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive
Edinburgh
EH11 3XP
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
16/06/2022