Insurance Coverage and associated services but excluding broking services

Swindon Borough Council (and Public Power Solutions Ltd); Insurance Tender

Swindon Borough Council invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the provision of Insurance Coverage and associated services but excluding broking services

The provisions of a full range of insurance (in part or as a whole) normally purchased by a unitary authority in England. In addition the Authority is seeking to place a range of insurance covers for a wholly owned subsidiary of the Authority, Public Power Solutions Ltd. The subsidiary manages the recycling activity of the Authority including the production of dried product manufactured from kerbside waste. The production process uses hot air only and does not produce any liquid or volatile gaseous emissions. The subsidiary is also active in renewable energy market, acting as a facilitator for those wishing to establish sustainable energy facilities.

Full details relating to this tender are provided in the tender documents. Additional information regarding the activities of the Waste recycling company can be found at https://www.publicpowersolutions.co.uk/

Contract Period
The contract for the Authority will be initially for a period of 36 months commencing 1 January 2018 with the option to extend for a further 24 months subject to satisfactory performance and budget availability.

The contract for the subsidiary will be for an initially period of 12 months commencing 1 January 2018 with the option to extend for a further 48 months (in 12 month periods each subject to review before agreement to proceed) subject to satisfactory performance and budget availability.

The relevant tender documents are included within this project webpage as attachments.

Questionnaire/ Tender Responses are required to be submitted no later than 24 November 2017, 1200 hours (GMT) in duplicate hardcopy to the Authority.

If you require any clarifications on the tender documents please submit these in writing via e-mail, including the project name clearly in the e-mail title, to Claire Thompson at clthompson@swindon.gov.uk by, 17 November 2017 1200 hrs UK Local time.

The Council’s responses to these clarification questions will be uploaded as attachments on the project webpage attachments section. Therefore it is the Contractor’s responsibility to check the site regularly for updates to clarifications, as you will not be advised when updates have been made.

In the event of difficulties downloading tender documents, please refer to the named contacts to Claire Thompson at clthompson@swindon.gov.uk

Please note that this project has been advertised on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) Contract Notice reference 203-418641/2017/ Contracts Finder/ other web portals, however, supplying the South West Portal is the only portal that includes all the relevant documents required to respond to this opportunity, bearing Project Id: DN304125.

We would encourage you to click on the ‘Register interest’ button to help the Council monitor the level of interest in this opportunity.

No Tender submissions will be considered without completing the tender documents in full including attachments and returning them in alignment with the instructions within the tender documents.