Clarifications

56. What equivalent policies will be accepted by CCS if companies do not have ISO9001 and ISO14001?

55. Questionnaire Questions - 131, 132 is it considered a fail if both of these questions are answered 'no'? Thank you.

54. At question 162, you ask; Which of the following CESG cyber certifications does your organisation currently hold? Tick all that apply. Certified Cyber Security Consultancy - Risk Assessment Certified Cyber Security Consultancy - Risk Management Certified Cyber Security Consultancy - Security Architecture Certified Cyber Security Consultancy - Audit & Review Certified Cyber Security Consultancy - Incident Management Penetration Testing: CHECK Cyber Incidents: CIR Tailored Evaluation: CTAS We are Cyber Essentials Plus accredited but do not hold any of the above. Please advise if this would result in a fail if we are not intending to become accredited? We are an architecture company, so are all the above relevant? Kind Regards

53. We have completed the online questionnaire. Can you please confirm if we are now on the Dynamic Purchasing System?

52. Good afternoon, We have recently been appointed as a supplier on your Construction Professional Services DPS. Could you please confirm the following points on how the DPS will operate: 1.Where will DPS opportunities be listed? 2.How will we be notified of new opportunities? 3.What is the threshold for using the DPS as opposed to your Framework? 4.What reporting will be requested from you? 5.What marketing do you have to sell the DPS? i.e. flyers 6.How can our clients utilise the Framework 7.How can we help raise the profile of the DPS Many thanks

51. Within the DPS questionnaire, at Q71 you ask us to: 'Please provide the percentage of invoices paid by you to those in your immediate supply chain on all contracts within 60 days of the receipt of the invoice in each of the last two six month periods' Please could you expand on what exactly falls under supply chain? You also ask us to provide: 'A copy of your standard payment terms for all of your supply chain contracts'. We do not have standard payment terms for all contracts. Terms are agreed on a supplier by supplier basis depending upon the nature of supply and terms available. Please confirm that we wouldn't 'fail' on this basis and what we should upload? Kind Regards

50. I have logged on today to check the status of the SQ we submitted in November. We are being asked to provide supplementary evidence to confirm declarations made in our SQ. I'm not sure if we have to provide everything in the list or just certain documents. I'm also unsure how to go about uploading this information, is this via the questionnaire? Many thanks

49. We refer to clause 7.2 of DPS 6242 Construction Professional Services Joint Schedule 3; Insurance Requirements. It is understood that Relevant Authority requires notification of any insurance claim in excess of 10% of the required insurance arising out of the Deliverables or the Contract with Relevant Authority. However, is it also the intent that the Relevant Authority requires notification of any insurance claim on the required insurances including claims relating to contracts which the Supplier has with other clients? The Supplier is a large multinational organisation with a comprehensive insurance programme which at one time may have a number of ongoing claims. Therefore such a reporting requirement would be unnecessarily onerous and subject to confidentiality obligations with other clients.

48. In question 129 it asks, 'Do you meet the minimum level of economic and financial standing and/or minimum financial threshold specified within the evaluation criteria for this procurement?' Sorry, I cant find information for what the threshold is. Please could you clarify? Thanks

47. Our questionnaire goes from Q21 to Q104 so am not sure how to include information on our Carbon Reduction plan which seems to be compulsory

46. Cyber Security - Q5. We have answered No to Q155 of the standard SQ, therefore responded to Q5 as Yes. We understand from your clarifications that not have Cyber Essentials Cert will Fail us, however would you consider accepting alternative measure that are in place such as anti-virus license, etc ?

45. Hello, We have Cyber Essentials Plus certification and have ticked 'yes' for question 156, and provided the details. However, do we also need to tick 'yes' for question 155? This seems to relate to Cyber Essentials Basic. The document in the Bid Pack 'Attachment 6 - DPSQ - RM6242 Construction Professional Services', item 69, says: "69. You are required to confirm as part of your DPS submission, that you have Cyber Essentials basic certification in place, as a minimum, at Question 155 of the SQ. If you have Cyber Essentials Plus you can select this option at Question 156 of the SQ. A 'Yes' response to either of these questions is acceptable. " However, item 70, then goes on to say: "70. If you select 'No' to Question 155 of the SQ and confirm this response at Question 5 of the DPSQ by selecting 'Yes' that you do not hold a valid Cyber Essentials basic certificate this will be classed as a 'Fail' and your application will be rejected until you have a valid Cyber Essentials basic certificate. " Can you confirm, if we only tick 'yes' for Question 156, confirming we have Cyber Essentials Plus, and 'no' to Question 155, this will suffice? Kind regards,

44. Hello, We have noticed some questions on the supplier online standard selection questionnaire (SQ) that aren't included that we can see, in the bidder pack document 'READ FIRST RM6242 - DPS Needs_v2.0', under item 73: Selection Questionnaire - Not Applicable questions. The document 'Attachment 6 - DPSQ - RM6242 Construction Professional Services', which provides Bidders with an overview of the questions Bidders must answer, has standard selection questionnaire questions up to Q155 and Q156 (Cyber Essentials) for the standard SQ section (before the DPSQ), but online there are further questions that require responding to before moving to the next stage. Can you confirm these also need responding to, or are they also not applicable? Kind regards,

43. Are questions 162 & 163 a pass/fail? Can we still be successful on the DPS without any of these and just Cyber Essentials Basic?

42. I am progressing through the online SQ. If a section does not apply to ourselves, i.e. Steel, do we leave the section blank or input N/A? Also I have selected yes to a couple of questions instead of no, but can't seem to be able to amend this. Please could you advise how? Many thanks

41. Hi there, We submitted our DPS application today, however, the selection questionnaire is showing as expired, and Construction Professional Services is showing as assessing. They both have the same reference number. Is there anything else that we have to do at this stage to complete our application or is our submission with you now for review?

40. Good morning, Can you please respond to clarification no. 30? Regards,

39. The query I have is that on question 77 it asks the Architectural Services we are able to provide which I have answered. It then jumps to question 98 which supports question 77 by asking which industrial sectors our organisation is able to provide services to which I have ticked all. Then it jumps to question 99 through to 108 asking all other services we can provide as below which reads to us if we can provide police, ambulance, fire services etc to these services. Please advise as we are Architects only and not police, ambulance, fire services etc.... Are these questions actually asking the same question as 98 but in more depth or has there been an error and the incorrect questions have appeared? Questions 99 to 108 are below: 99. Please select the Blue Light services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Police✔Ambulance✔Fire Services 100. Please select the Education services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Higher Education✔Further Education✔Schools 101. Please select the Energy & Utilities services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Carbon Net Zero (Energy)✔Energy Efficiency Nuclear Oil and Gas Off-shore Renewables✔Wind Power✔Water and Hydropower 102. Please select the Environment services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Sustainability Waste✔Carbon Net Zero (Environment) Disaster Resilience✔Ecosystem 103. Please select the Clinical, Health, Social Care services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Hospitals✔Social Care✔Laboratories✔Life Sciences✔General Practice / Integrated Care / Community Care 104. Please select the Housing and Buildings services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Social Housing✔Accommodation✔Temporary Accommodation✔Heritage✔Commercial✔Office✔Leisure / Hotel✔Retail✔Sports, Stadia and Venues✔High Rise✔Mixed use 105. Please select the Justice services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Custodial✔Courts 106. Please select the Defence and Security services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply. Cyber security✔Physical security✔Aviation/Aerospace✔Maritime Intelligence Security Services 107. Please select the Transport services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Rail✔Bus / Rail depots and stations✔Aviation✔Maritime✔Submarine✔Ports✔Highways, Tunnels and Bridges 108. Please select the Urban Regeneration services in which your organisation is able to provide. Tick all that apply.✔Town Centre Regeneration Smart Cities

38. Can you please clarify the questions below; 150. Can you supply a list of your relevant principal contracts for goods and/or services provided in the last three years? Could you please clarify the requirement here, is this simply a list of contracts we have delivered in the last 3 years? 180. Upload documentary evidence for a certificate for each principal contract for goods and/or services provided in the last three years Could you please clarify what is meant by a 'Certificate', the contracts we deliver do not have 'certificates'. Also as a large organisation we will have delivered many hundreds of contracts in the last 3 years.

37. Confirmation of Services Questionnaire: Q55. - We have not done any historic work on this framework, so we are unable to upload a contract example specific to RM6242. I can't move on until this question is completed. Please advise if there is anything else we are able to upload as an example.