5.47 The Participants will be expected to continue working up their bids to provide a fixed price bid based on the following:
Design: | 1:200 plans and 1:50 for key areas, cross sections, site plans, area schedule, performance specifications; |
Financial model: | full financial model; |
Contract: | agreement on all key contractual issues affecting price and risk allocation, including the payment mechanism and performance regime, and agreement on all points of principle on specification; |
Financing: | further statement of support from proposed funders and third party equity providers. This should include draft term sheets and acceptance of key contract terms, payment mechanism and performance regime, financial model and allocation of risks within the consortium as well as draft due diligence reports. |
5.48 NHSScotland bodies should be clear on the basis on which the price charged is quoted by participants at each stage of the procurement process. Permitted changes following submission of Final Tenders are noted below. However, participants should be aware that material changes to the project, bid or price tendered will not be permitted following submission of Final Tenders.
5.49 In their response to the ISFT, participants should be requested to include the following in relation to the services comprised within a scheme:
• details of what is comprised within each service together with the proposed form of agreement;
• proposals for the management of the service;
• performance measures;
• quality measures;
• monitoring and reporting arrangements;
• details of how the services are to be delivered;
• the scope of the services offered and flexibility in the volume of outputs provided;
• pricing and risk details in respect of individual services.