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title: "Emergency Standby Generators - Service, Inspect, Test, and Maintain"
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# Emergency Standby Generators - Service, Inspect, Test, and Maintain

Buyer: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0292c1

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## Summary

The University of Edinburgh is seeking to engage a contractor through an open procurement process for the service, inspection, testing, and maintenance of approximately 50 emergency standby generators that support essential services at its site in Edinburgh. This contract, titled "Emergency Standby Generators - Service, Inspect, Test, and Maintain," is classified under repair and maintenance services and is planned to span four years, commencing in August 2021. Key dates include the submission deadline on 22 April 2021, which is also the date for bid opening and the start of the award period.

This procurement presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in equipment maintenance and emergency service provision. Companies that demonstrate experience in generator service and repair, possess necessary accreditations, and can respond quickly to emergency call-outs would be well-suited to compete. Given the critical nature of the services required, firms with a strong track record in managing statutory maintenance compliance and performance management will have a competitive edge, along with those capable of offering additional resources, such as temporary generators for emergency use.

## Notice

The purpose of this Term Maintenance Contract will be to appoint a single contractor to Service, Inspect, Test, and Maintain in a good and safe working order of around 50 x standby generators that support essential services at our site. The contract shall include emergency call out cover with a maximum of 4 hrs response. The contract will include an engineer to attend at black starts per building per annum. Although the majority of work will be within UoE standard working hours, the contractor must also attend to out of hours and weekend work when required. This contract is being tendered on behalf of the University of Edinburgh and all University of Edinburgh Subsidiary Companies. Any and all of the University of Edinburgh's Subsidiary Companies may access and utilise this Contract at any time during the relevant Contract period. This procurement will be conducted via the Public Contracts Scotland - Tender portal (PCS-T). We will apply a one stage Open procedure. Bidders must self-certify their adherence to the conditions of participation via the SPD (Scotland) in PSC-T, and may be required to submit Means of Proof before contract award. Bidders must refer to the specific requirements listed in the Section III in this Contract Notice when completing the SPD in PCS-T.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a single contractor to Service, Inspect, Test and Maintain in a good and safe working order the emergency standby generator plant and associated equipment on the various systems throughout the University of Edinburgh Estate. The Contractor shall undertake service, testing and maintenance tasks in line with the requirements of the SFG 20 schedules and the manufacturer's recommendations. As part of the major service a full load bank test shall be conducted. Minor Services constitute tasks scheduled on the Task Sheets with task frequencies of Quarterly and six monthly. Major Services incorporate these and those defined as annual tasks. The Contractor shall review the list of assets and their associated service and maintenance tasks and provide a programme of work based on the relevant maintenance task schedules to cover all assets for agreement with the University within two weeks of appointment. Equipment shall be properly maintained so as to prevent danger, and shall take account of manufacturers' instructions in accordance with PUWER Regulation 5. The Contractor shall comply with all relevant statutory instructions and regulations. All parts and components shall be sourced from the plant or equipment original manufacturer. Any defective routine consumables, parts or components supplied and or installed under this contract, whilst undertaking the service and maintenance tasks shall be replaced at no cost to the University. Maintain appropriate stocks of spare parts for all the types of equipment (i.e. manufacturer sourced spare parts on a like for like replacement basis) consistent with achieving the equipment service availability. The Contractor shall support the Estate's Electrical Engineer in the undertaking of a Black Start exercise, through the provision of attendance of engineer(s) to assist and monitor the exercise. Black Starts shall be programmed separately to the Minor and Major Servicing of the Power Generators. The Contractor shall be able to supply temporary generators of various output capacities for delivery and connection on site within a period of 24 hours of notification. Provision of the temporary generator is to include a fuel tank / day tank of adequate size to run the generator at full load for a period of 24 hours. During the Contract Term, the Contractor shall provide a Reactive Works call-out service to the University. Reactive Works refers to repairs that are done when equipment has already broken down, in order to restore the equipment to its normal operating condition. The Contractor shall respond to Reactive Works call outs within a period of 4 hours. All activities which install, remove, refurbish, maintain, mothball, put in service or remove assets from service will be required to undertake Asset Data Management duties. Through this service contract appointment the Contractor shall maintain an accurate database of their own and record asset information from maintenance visits. This database shall be aligned to the UoE Asset Management Guideline (AMG). The Contractor shall ensure all equipment they test and maintain has a UoE asset tag. If there is no asset tag they shall tag the asset in line with the AMG and fulfil the New Project leg of the Asset Data Management flow chart. During the course of the Contract, the Contractor shall submit quarterly progress reports to the University Building Services Group. During the course of the contract performance review meetings shall be held periodically with senior members of the Contractor and University Estates Building Services Engineer. The meetings shall be held monthly for the first three months and quarterly thereafter. For full details of service contract requirement the bidder is instructed to read Schedule 3 Statement of Requirement- Brief v6 contained within the tender. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if there are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015

Renewal: Contract Term- The proposed contract period is an initial 2 year contract with an option to extend for a further 1+1 year to 2025.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023159-2021 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Planning, Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 17 Sep 2021 |
| Submission deadline | 22 Apr 2021 |
| Future notice date | 22 Mar 2021 |
| Award date | 23 Aug 2021 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | 12 months prior to contract expiry |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £180,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH |
| Locality | EDINBURGH |
| Post town | Edinburgh |
| Postcode | EH1 1HT |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM1 East Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM13 City of Edinburgh |
| Local authority | City of Edinburgh |
| Electoral ward | City Centre |
| Westminster constituency | Edinburgh East and Musselburgh |
| Delivery location | TLM75 City of Edinburgh |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MITCHELL DIESEL LIMITED, TRADING AS MITCHELL POWERSYSTEMS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 50 - Repair and maintenance services

### Codes

- 50000000 - Repair and maintenance services

## Release History

- 17 Sep 2021 at 10:15 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023159-2021
- 19 Mar 2021 at 12:40 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005623-2021
- 12 Feb 2021 at 13:56 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002906-2021

## Notice URLs

- http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/procurement/supplying
- http://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00107
- https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/esop/pts-host/public/pts/web/login.html

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