Clarifications

I would advise to look at our specification to ensure it fits within your scope of services you offer. However, you would most likely would tick the Smart FM Solutions and Helpdesk Services based on the services you have mentioned. Furthermore, the FM DPS is a management DPS rather than a supply DPS therefore there may be a limited number opportunities specific to supply.

This information has been sent to you by a separate email as it includes documents which are unable to be attached here.

We do not accept anything other accreditation in place of the Cyber Essentials accreditation.

Thanks for your question, as part of onboarding this DPS, unfortunately we cannot accept anything in place of Cyber Essentials, or equivalent. All appointed suppliers are required to have Cyber Essentials. We would advise that you complete the Financial Viability Risk Assessment to the best of your ability with whichever tab is most relevant to your organisation. Upon assessment, if the team require anything additional they will reach out.

As we are unable to attach documents to this response, using your email, you have sent above, we will send a blank copy of this form across to you.

When suppliers are appointed to the DPS they are issued a DPS appointment form to sign prior to becoming appointed, is this what you are referencing by 'framework award form' ?

We advise that you submit all accounts that have been filed at this time.

You are not contractually bound to accept all opportunities you are invited to bid for. We recognise for various reasons this may not be possible. However, what we do ask is that if you are not able to bid, or receive an EOI that you do not want to bid for, you provide some feedback as to why this may be. This assists the customer with their market engagement. With regards to negotiating the terms, as you will be aware, you sign up to the DPS based on the terms and conditions that are used within this DPS, (Public Sector Contract).

Yes, the FVRA and audited accounts are required at the time of submitting your application.

Suppliers must be able to provide evidence by completing the Financial Viability Risk Assessment (FVRA) to demonstrate they have a D&B of at least 30 and meet the required financial ratios. Please ensure you complete the FVRA as part of your application and provide it as part of your submission.

If an application is in the "Assessing" stage, it goes through checks to progress to being "Appointed". If you are "Appointed" to the DPS, there would be no need to make another application, unless it is for a different DPS. If a "Rejection" should happen, details should be provided for when a new application can be made.

CCS requires assurance about a Suppliers financial position and although you have self verified, CCS requires information to ensure this is the case. All Suppliers who on board the DPS have to complete a Financial Viability Risk Assessment and on the back of this if needed CCS can request additional information to satisfy the standards of the commercial agreement to provide all public sector buyers with the level of assurance that is required. Unless you are able to provide this information, you will not be able progress through the application to be appointed to the DPS. If you need any further information about the FVRA, additional information can be found in the Bid Pack. If you have any specific questions please let us know.

Yes, this would be the most likely service for you to tick. But please look at the specification first to ensure that it fits within what you can do. Alongside this, it's important to note that the Facilities Management DPS is a management DPS rather than a supply DPS, so there may not be many contracts for the supply element only.

Please complete the whole application and when you get to the services element, ensure that you select landscaping services.

There is a linen and laundry service, you can refer to the specification to see what this includes, but it has been left quite top level

For assistance with your application, could you please liaise with the support service for Supplier Registration at: SRS service desk; +44 (0) 161 413 7982 support@nqc.com

The T&C's cannot be amended from how they are set out

With regards to where consultancy services sits under for goods and services, we would advise you to split out what services you can offer; for example, if this is for IT management, or fire safety management then we would advise splitting them further instead of 'consultancy' as a whole as there is not a specific filter type for consultancy.

When answering this question, you can just include key subcontractors, as this can be updated at call off, and the %- perhaps give the % based on reactive, an approximation?

Please select Private Limited Company/Publicly Listed Company from the drop down as a Sole Trader will need to populate tab 1.1a.