Land Agency Consultancy Services for Forestry and Land Scotland

Concepts

• land agency consultancy services
• real estate
• inverness
• land scotland
• land agency services
• land agency consultancy services requirements
• land sale or purchase
• land agency consultancy services for forestry and land scotland
• forestry and land scotland
• forestry management of woodland property

Location

Scotland:

Description

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has a requirement to procure Land Agency Consultancy Services as part of the process of managing the national forest estate. The Land Agency Consultancy Services requirements are varied and include: disposals, acquisitions, excambions, servitudes, wayleaves, leases, agreements, valuations, other estates development and negotiations.

Total Quantity or Scope

FLS has a requirement for Land Agency Services. The Land Agency Services requirements are varied and include disposals, acquisitions, excambions, servitudes, wayleaves, leases, agreements, valuations, other estates development work and negotiations. Expressly excluded from this Framework Agreement is: the disposal of and forestry management of woodland property, strategic planning advice on retained assets, and advice in relation to minerals and telecoms. 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.

Renewal Options

With the option to extend for three further three month periods.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 70120000 - Buying and selling of real estate
• 70122000 - Land sale or purchase services
• 70122100 - Land sale services
• 70122200 - Land purchase services
• 70320000 - Land rental or sale services
• 70321000 - Land rental services
• 70123000 - Sale of real estate
• 77300000 - Horticultural services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are available.
• Financial restrictions apply.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.
• Technical restrictions apply.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The Price:Quality ratio on which this tender is 45% price (commercial), 55% quality (technical). The quality criterion outlined in section II.2.5 make up 100% of the 55% quality score. Further information how scores will be calculated is available in the tender documents available on PCS-T. SPD evaluation will be scored as pass/fail. Technical Criteria and Weightings are included in the Evaluation and Award Criteria Document within PCS-T. Where the bidder relies on the capacities of other entities in order to meet the selection criteria they must provide a separate SPD for each entity. Please read the instructions on the SPD section 2C.1 for full details. If the bidder intends to subcontract any share of the contract, then the bidder will be required to submit a separate SPD (Part II A&B, and Part III A&B only) for each subcontractor. FLS reserves the right to modify the Contract within the scope permitted under Regulation 72(1) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Operational reasons for modification may include, but are not limited to: - Changes to operational programs which may increase or decrease land agency services; - Changes to in-house capacity resulting in the need to outsource additional Land Agency; - A drive from the Scottish Government or a change in government policy/priorities leading to new infrastructure projects, changes in budget for FLS, and a shift in priorities; - Impact of a pandemic or any other event or occurrence which is outside the reasonable control of the Authority; - Changes in guidelines and industry standards; - Unforeseen changes to budgets that may increase or decrease the availability of budgets for surveys; - Suitability of land coming to market or offered off market; - Community interest through CATS; - The volume of boundary adjustments due to the recent completion of the voluntary registration of the FLS whole land holding; - The completion of outstanding work at the end of the Framework Agreement. - The volume of assets being declared surplus and brought forward by Forest Regions. Question Scoring Methodology for Technical Criteria: 0 - Unacceptable - Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate an ability to meet the requirement. 25 - Poor - Response is partially relevant and poor. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled. 50 - Acceptable - Response is relevant and acceptable. The response addresses a broad understanding of the requirement but may lack details on how the requirement will be fulfilled in certain areas. 75 - Good - Response is relevant and good. The response is sufficiently detailed to demonstrate a good understanding and provides details on how the requirements will be fulfilled. 100 - Excellent - Response is completely relevant and excellent overall. The response is comprehensive, unambiguous and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the requirement and provides details of how the requirement will be met in full. Any Bidder that receives a score of zero for one or more Technical criteria will be excluded from the tender. Any bidder that receives a total Technical score below 50% out of 100% will be excluded from the tender. The FLS guide to PCS-T can be found here: https://forestryandland.gov.scot/images/researchandresources/procurement/Procure... The Supplier Developer Programme is available to assist Suppliers with public procurement including training events: https://www.sdpscotland.co.uk/region/public-bodies-forestry-commission/ The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 18712. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 (SC Ref:654257)