Notice Information
Notice Title
The West Scotland Local Authority Weather Forecasting Partnership 2023
Notice Description
The Council identified a requirement to appoint an suitable Consultant for the provision of a highly accurate and reliable road weather forecasting and consultancy service. This service shall assist and aid all roads authorities who are members of the Weather Forecast Partnership (hereinafter referred to as the "Councils") in the delivery of their operational winter and flood response service plans. The Consultant shall also provide a maintenance service for all Council owned weather stations and monitoring equipment located within the local authority areas of the Councils in the Weather Forecast Partnership
Lot Information
Lot 1
South Lanarkshire Council acts as the lead authority for a collaboration of thirteen Scottish Councils located in the West of Scotland, known as the "Weather Forecast Partnership". As lead authority for the Weather Forecast Partnership, South Lanarkshire Council invited bids from companies that were interested in being appointed to provide weather forecasting and weather station maintenance services for the thirteen Councils who are members of the Weather Forecast Partnership A Prior Information Notice (PIN) was published on Public Contracts Scotland on the 13th of May 2022 to gauge interest in the market which resulted in two expressions of interest. A Contract Notice was then published on Public Contracts Scotland on the 8th of September 2022, advising of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) being conducted on the electronic tendering platform Public Contract Scotland - Tender (PCS-T). Tenders were invited on a Price/Quality basis. The following weightings were used to determine the most economically advantageous tender: Technical (Quality) 70% Commercial (Price) 30% The successful Bidder was the one which achieved the highest combined Technical / Commercial score provided that all of the selection criteria contained within the Qualification Envelope, as detailed within the Contract Notice, was provided, and verified by the Council as being compliant.
Renewal: Optional extension of up to 5 years at discretion of the Councils.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0366fd
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/011133-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
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- CPV Codes
71351600 - Weather-forecasting services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £8,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £13,500,000 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 18 Apr 20233 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 21 Oct 2022Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 12 Apr 20233 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- 2028 - 2033
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- South Lanarkshire Council
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- AYR
- Postcode
- ML3 0AA
- Postcode Area
- Motherwell
- Country
- Scotland
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM9 Southern Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM95 South Lanarkshire
- Delivery Location
- TLM Scotland
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- Local Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Electoral Ward
- Hamilton North and East
- Westminster Constituency
- Hamilton and Clyde Valley
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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