Contract notice

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

I.1) Name and addresses

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

In the case of joint procurement involving different countries – applicable national procurement law:

The applicable national procurement law is that of Scotland, the national procurement law of the Lead Procurer.

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

Body governed by public law

I.5) Main activity

Other: Technology research and development support

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.2) Description

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1) Conditions for participation

III.2) Conditions related to the contract

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.2) Administrative information

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

VI.2) Information about electronic workflows

Electronic ordering will be used

Electronic invoicing will be accepted

Electronic payment will be used

VI.3) Additional information

This procurement concerns a pre-commercial procurement (PCP). PCPs are exempted from the EU public procurement directives (2004/18/EC (or 2014/24/EU) and 2004/17/EC (or 2014/25/EU)), and the national laws that implement them, because the procurers do not retain all the benefits of the R&D (the IPR ownership stays with the contractors).Publication of this contract notice in the OJEU is not to be understood as a waiver of this exemption. Publication is made on a voluntary basis and the procurement will not follow the procedures under the EU public procurement directives, but rather the procedure described in the tender documentation.

An open procedure was chosen in Section IV.1.1) ‘Procedure’ for formal reasons only.This is because it is not possible to publish a contract notice without selecting one of the listed procedures.

PCPs also exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) because the WTO GPA does not cover R&D services (PCPs being limited to such services).

PCPs do not constitute state aid under the EU state aid rules if they are implemented following an open, transparent, competitive procedure with risk and benefit sharing at market price.

The value stated in Section II.1.5. refers to the total estimated value of the PCP framework agreement in euros (excluding VAT).Details of the budget for each phase and the budget for each individual call-off contract are provided in TD01 .

Call-off contracts will be priced and paid in euros.

Offers must be submitted in English.All communication (before, during and after the procurement) must be made in English.

Participation in the open market consultation webinar that was held on 26 April 2021 as part of the preparation for this procurement is not a prerequisite for submitting a tender. A recording, the Q&A and the slides of the webinar are available on the EuropeWave project website (www.europewave.eu).

Further general information about PCPs is available on the Europa website (see https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/innovation-procurement).

Framework agreements and a call-off contracts for Phase 1 are expected to be awarded to a minimum of five (5) contractors.

Section IV.2.1: a PIN Corrigendum Notice was also published in the OJEU, reference number: 2021/S 063-160938.

The Public Contract Scotland (PCS) portal will be the single point of truth for this procurement exercise. All queries must be raised via the PCS Q&A facility by the deadline for queries stated in the request for tender documentation.

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=650423.

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:

Pre-commercial procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them.

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

Pre-commercial procurement is exempted from the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA), the EU public procurement directives and the national laws that implement them.

However, for Phase 2 and 3, the Lead Procurer reserves the right to include community benefits clauses.

(SC Ref:650423)

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

02/07/2021

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