Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Zero Waste Scotland Ltd
Ground Floor, Moray House, Forthside Way
Stirling
FK8 1QZ
UK
Telephone: +44 1786433930
E-mail: procurement@zerowastescotland.org.uk
NUTS: UKM
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/content/tenders
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA20802
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Environment
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Food and Drink Waste — PR Support Services
Reference number: 18-CM-023-OJ
II.1.2) Main CPV code
79416000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
We require the provision of consumer and specialist public relations support to develop an over-arching plan for public relations activities and deliver a series of creative, persuasive, dynamic and high-impact food and drink waste campaigns, including content creation as necessary.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
400 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
79416100
79416200
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKM
Main site or place of performance:
Performance under this contract may be from Zero Waste Scotland's office in Stirling (FK8 1QZ) or the supplier's location, unless otherwise stated and agreed in advance.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
We require the provision of consumer and specialist public relations support to develop an over-arching plan for public relations activities and deliver a series of creative, persuasive, dynamic and high-impact food and drink waste campaigns, including content creation as necessary.
Support may be required in any of the following areas over the term of the contract:
— public relations opportunities,
— digital content creation,
— social media management.
The contractor will be expected to work closely with Zero Waste Scotland to develop and deliver creative, evolving media initiatives and engaging content that will help capture the imagination of national, regional and local media outlets, and inspire the target audiences to act. These campaigns may include a range of topical (e.g. audience or message specific) and thematic (e.g. seasonal events) opportunities.
The contractor will work with Zero Waste Scotland’s internal digital team to help develop a wide range of engaging, results-driven content for sharing via our social media channels and websites. The content will be used to support proposed PR activities, but will also be suitable for a suite of broader evergreen content that is not tied into any specific campaign, and which has longevity for use in subsequent years and across multiple future campaigns.
The contractor will provide ongoing, day-to-day management of the Love Food Hate Waste Facebook channel. They will be responsible for creating content, developing a content planner and distributing key messaging across wider Zero Waste Scotland web and social media channels.
Work will be allocated through the framework by direct award to the contractor.
Full details will be provided to the short listed candidates in the tender document issued for stage 2 of this restricted procedure.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 90
Price
/ Weighting:
10
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
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
Restricted procedure
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:
2018/S 125-285277
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 18-CM-023-OJ
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
15/10/2018
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 6
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Lux
128 Pitt Street
Edinburgh
EH6 4DD
UK
Telephone: +44 1315556911
NUTS: UKM
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 400 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Zero Waste Scotland is not using the ESPD module on PCS for this procurement exercise. Bidders must therefore download the ESPD (Scotland) provided for this procurement exercise as an additional document in order to prepare a response.
Failure to follow the instructions provided in either the “Supporting information for selection criteria” document or the Tender document may result in your ESPD (Scotland) response and/or tender submission being ruled non-compliant. Please read these instructions carefully prior to completing and submitting any response. Any questions relating to these instructions must be raised using the question and answer facility through the PCS website.
The questions, weightings and scoring methodology for selection criteria can be found in the “supporting information for selection criteria” document.
Bidders are reminded that only information provided as a direct response to the ESPD (Scotland) will be evaluated. Bidders should complete their response on the basis that Zero Waste Scotland, its staff and advisers have no prior knowledge of their organisation.
Bidders should note that Zero Waste Scotland will carry out due diligence checking on statements made within ESPD (Scotland) responses. A request from Zero Waste Scotland to provide evidence in support of statements made by a Bidder in their ESPD (Scotland) response does not infer that the bid or the bidder has been successful.
The questions, weightings and scoring methodology for award criteria can be found in the tender document, which will be issued to short-listed bidders only on or around the date indicated in the contract notice.
Please do not contact Zero Waste Scotland following a response or submission to enquire if or when a decision will be made. An indicative timetable is provided in the contract notice, and Zero Waste Scotland will inform all Bidders of decisions or delays at the same time, by email to the nominated contact only as identified in your response or submission.
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VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Zero Waste Scotland Ltd
Ground Floor, Moray House, Forthside Way
Stirling
FK8 1QZ
UK
Telephone: +44 1786433930
Internet address(es)
URL: http://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/content/tenders
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
15/10/2018