Clarifications

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.

36. Part 1 - Q6 Immediate Parent Company (IPC) We are asked to provide a Post Code for our Immediate Parent Company. Our IPC is based in Sweden so doesn't hold a UK Post Code. Please advise how we should populate is field ?

35. While we expected to be asked questions about payment to subconsultants, the online portal did NOT ask us the questions which were asked in the file "Attachment 6 - DPSQ - RM6242 Construction Professional Services" which asked for evidence of: A copy of your standard payment terms for all of your supply chain contracts; Details of the systems which are in place to ensure that suppliers are paid Promptly; A copy of your procedures for resolving disputed invoices promptly and Effectively, Details of any payments of interest for late payments you have paid in the past 12 months(...); A copy of your standard payment terms used with sub-contractors on public sector contracts subject to PCR 2015. Could you confirm with urgency that this information is not needed at this stage please? Many thanks

34. I would like to query the requirements for submitting a response for the RM6242 Construction Professional Services DPS. After reviewing the documents, we are a bit confused as to what needs to be submitted for Stage 1. We have assumed that the document titled 'Attachment 2a Selection Questionnaire' gets submitted first? However, when you get to question 1.11 Part 2B Your Bidding Model continued there are no lots available for selection. We have done an extensive search throughout all the documentation provided and we can't see any reference to the Lots.

33. Good Afternoon, Please could you confirm if the 2 projects examples have to be completed. Many thanks

32. Good Afternoon, Are we able to send contract comments to yourselves for consideration? Thank you

31. Can we please ask in case we are not successful the first time when will we be able to apply again? Thank you

30. Good morning, we have already submitted SQ1 and therefore cannot check the questions anymore. Was there a question on Carbon Reduction plan in SQ1 as a clarification question seems to suggest? We believe questions on the Carbon reduction plan are only in DPSQ. Can you please confirm ?

29. Can we please ask you to clarify whether by answering NO to Q51 "Please confirm that you have detailed your environmental management measures by completing and publishing a Carbon Reduction Plan which meets the required reporting standard." and YES to Q52 "Please confirm that your organisation is taking steps to reduce your GHG Emissions over time and is publicly committed to achieving Net Zero by 2050." would not constitute a FAIL. We are working on a Carbon Reduction plan and aimed to complete it in the next couple of weeks. Thank you

28. Hi, In your response to the Carbon Reduction Plan query you stated that "PPN 06/21 references these plans for services with an anticipated contract value above £5m per annum". Is a Carbon Reduction Plan therefore not required if we select Contract / Fee Values less than £5m in response to Question 152 of the DPSQ? Regards, Jamie

27. Please clarify if we are required to complete the letter of confirmation of services and if so, where do we submit these.

25. Q144 to 146 asks us to confirm 'Skills and Apprentices' through this contract. Please can you confirm whether or not this is a pass/fail question

24. We understand that the requirement for a Carbon Plan is a mandatory requirement, however this is not stated in the READ ME FIRST document section 43. Please can you advise how we go back and include this in the questionnaire if we have submitted SQ1 Thanks

22. Sq Q 58_Letters of Confirmation: Could you amend the letter template to omit the initial reference to an Agreement. It will make our clients think we are asking them to enter into some sort of contractual arrangement which is then not explained. We suspect that some clients would refuse to sign this as a result (we would if faced with the same terminology)

21. SQ, Q 69 - 74 _Payment data: Would the CCS be able to provide the same data for Buyers on the framework? This would be both fair and balanced, and of material interest to many suppliers when choosing whether to bid for framework opportunities. Many thanks.

20. OJEU Minimum Standard of Reliability, Jnt Sched 9: Would you be able to provide a copy of this standard or a link to its source? We have been unable to locate one and the CCS document merely refers to the standard and does not say what it entails. Thank you.

19. JCT amendments: The version of the JCT that you have provided in Bid Pack 5 shows as being amended from the original and states that a comparison copy should be provided. We would be grateful if you could provide a list of the amendments made to the orginal contact and an explanation of the reasons for those amendments. Many thanks.

18. Intellectual Property Rights: We note that the standard boiler plate amendments to the NEC provided in Bid Pack 5 leave the IP in any new work vested with the designer whereas section 9 of the Core terms transfers the designers' IP to the client. Please clarify which would apply? And if it is a proposal of this framework that designer IP be transferred whereas the standard government amendments to NEC contracts allow retention by the designer, would you be able to explain what necessitates that transfer for this framework? Many thanks.