Clarifications

116. I would like some clarification on questions 167 and 185. For 167, would this would be a cashflow FORECAST for the next 12 months (rather than the current year, which is 2024?). For question 185, what would qualify as evidence of cashflow for the current trading year? Would our latest company accounts (up to Feb2024) suffice, or would redacted bank statements for the past 12 months showing opening and closing balances be acceptable?

115. I would like clarification on questions 179 and 180 please. We answered yes to these questions on the original questionnaire as we have contracts relating to grant funding rather than a supply of goods and services as we are a pre-sales start up. Additionally, we do not have a certificate. Should I have answered N/A for these questions in the original questionnaire? If so, how can I go about amending this at this stage?

114. The company is a small civil engineering contractor, with capabilities to deliver groundworks. Would our company be able to join this DPS, to supply groundworks alone, without the installation of electrical services or the chargers themselves? We note that there is a question 68, which states Groundworks, however we are unsure if this just relates to design, or the physical deliver of groundworks/ civil engineering works. Many thanks.

113. Hi, please can you confirm the obligations of each of these roles in relation to questions 93-98 where we are asked to provide the contact details of each: DPS Agreement Manager, DPS Lead, Compliance Officer, Data Protection Officer, Marketing contact.

112. We raised the below query with you response - your response refers to RM6237 LVPS Supplier Access Information, the opportunity we are querying is RM6213 - can you please confirm. Question: Can you confirm if you will accept Contractors proposing partners to complete the below items (direct to client/not through Contractor). •software and back-office solutions •lease and purchase of products We look forward to hearing from you Kind Regards Answer: We recommend for you to review the RM6237 -LVPS -Supplier Access Information document contained within the Supplier Access Pack in order to complete your suitability assessment with the system. Please note that the suitability assessment questions do not request information on your capability to provide the non-medical goods and or services, your financial standing or the details and suitability of any subcontractors which you intend to use to provide the non-medical goods and or services. These elements of your suitability, and that of any subcontractors, will be checked by buyers when deciding whether to award a contract to you.

111. Good Morning I raised a clarification on 8 May 2024 as below can you please advise Will you accept a Contractors proposing partners to complete the below items (direct to client/not through Contractor) extracted from the attached PDF document. •software and back-office solutions •lease and purchase of products Kind Regards

110. Hi, Regarding - question 129. Do you meet the minimum level of economic and financial standing and/or minimum financial threshold specified within the evaluation criteria for this procurement?. Please let us know where this criteria of "minimum level of economic and financial standing and/or minimum financial threshold" is specified ? thanks

109. Good Afternoon, This clarification is further to my email queries of November 8th and 10th - assigned case reference 01467053. We provided 2 named sub-contractors as part of our stage 1 application. One of these sub-contractors, however, is not Cyber Essentials accredited and needs to be removed in order for our application to be compliant with DPS requirements. From an operational perspective, this is fine as as we are able to rely on the services of our other sub-contractor, who is Cyber Essentials accredited, as both sub-contractors are providing the same service. Please can you advise how we set about removing the un-accredited sub-contractor so that we tick the Cyber Essentials box and proceed with our application? With Kind Regards.

108. Is social value a weighted factor for successful bidders?

107. Our listed Person of Significant Control on companies house is our parent company. Question 16 of the SQ asks for information such as 'date of birth' 'nationality' and 'Country, state or part of the UK where the PSC usually lives' a company has none of these aspects. Should we list the PSC of the parent company in this instance? If not what information should be included?

106. Can CCS please confirm if the 'End to end' service on attachment one is all other services on that matrix combined under one option?

105. I asked the below question and received the response below that with asterixis beside it. The issue I am having is q179 and q180 require attachments and will not allow me to proceed without attaching a doc. How do I overcome this? 2531. We are completing the SQ on the CCS portal and are looking to clarify what exactly is being asked from us in questions 179 and 180, please could you kindly advise? 179. Upload documentary evidence for a list of relevant principal contracts for goods and/or services provided in the last three years 180. Upload documentary evidence for a certificate for each principal contract for goods and/or services provided in the last three years ***These two questions are in the "not applicable" section of the DPSQ for RM6213 - this is covered in the DPS Needs document in the Not Applicable Questions section. Therefore there is no requirement to submit a response to these questions for the RM6213 VCIS SPS

104. We are completing the SQ on the CCS portal and are looking to clarify what exactly is being asked from us in questions 179 and 180, please could you kindly advise? 179. Upload documentary evidence for a list of relevant principal contracts for goods and/or services provided in the last three years 180. Upload documentary evidence for a certificate for each principal contract for goods and/or services provided in the last three years

103. We are applying to join RM6213. Our immediate parent is in Germany. What Post Code do we use as we are unable to get to the next stage?

102. Re: The requirement for Cyber Essentials. Our service provider that handles and manages 100% of charging user data (personal details, payments, usage info) do have Cyber Essentials certification. We as a group administrative and overall management function have CE in plan. Will this be sufficient to pass this requirement.

101. Order Schedule 10 (Exit Management) This question is raised in the context of a procurement where the Buyer is asking the Supplier to fully fund the infrastructure investment. Paragraph 8.2 allows the Supplier to determine which of the Supplier's assets and contracts should be Transferring Assets and Transferring Contracts in an exit situation. Paragraph 8.3 requires the Supplier to sell the Transferring Assets to the Buyer or a Replacement Supplier for the Net Book Value less any amounts paid for them through the Charges. If the Supplier is fully-funding the charging infrastructure then Net Book Value is not a fair or equitable mechanism for valuing the Deliverables that the Supplier has funded because it does not reflect the investment status of the assets (it is simply an accounting mechanism). For example, utilisation levels need to reach a de-minimus level for the revenue charged to users to cover operational costs (let alone to start repaying the capital cost). The Net Book Value of the investment is nevertheless reducing in the meantime. If, for example, the Contract was terminated before even this de-minimus utilisation level was achieved, then the Net Book Value would not cover (i) the investment that the Supplier had made, (ii) the financing costs of that investment, or (iii) the risk premium for the Supplier in agreeing to enter the contract (Scenario B). Is this valuation mechanism intended to have effect in a contract where the Supplier is fully funding or significantly funding the Deliverables? If it is, please can the CCS explain why a Supplier should consider offering to fully-fund the investment opportunity (noting that no lender would be prepared to lend money on this basis)? What would prevent the Buyer from deciding to terminate its existing Supplier contract (Scenario B) simply to secure the Transferring Assets for a significant discount (and commercial advantage) at the Supplier's expense? Would the CCS reconsider the relevant contract clauses (in a fully funded procurement) in light of the above?

100. Core Terms 10.3.2 (Termination without reason) In a procurement where the Buyer is asking the Supplier to fully fund the infrastructure investment, the proposed contract retains the Buyer's right to voluntary termination without reason or liability. If a Supplier proceeds on this basis and fully or significantly funds the charging infrastructure then its only recourse to recover this investment is from fees charged to users of that infrastructure - however, a Supplier is unlikely to make any profit from this investment for several years. Our reading of the contract is that the Buyer can decide to terminate the contract after the charging infrastructure is installed but before the Supplier has generated any profit and have no obligation to compensate the Supplier (Scenario A). Please can the CCS confirm this is the correct interpretation of the contract (noting that no lender would be prepared to lend money on this basis)? Please can the CCS also explain what accumulated rights the Supplier may have if the Buyer voluntarily terminates the contract (Cl. 10.5.3)? Cl 10.5.6 envisages that the Buyer may procure a Replacement Supplier. Is it possible that the Buyer could decide to voluntarily terminate its existing Supplier contract (Scenario A) and allow the Replacement Supplier to make use of (free of charge), the Deliverables that the Supplier has funded and required to leave behind (grid connection, feeder pillar and connections to the chargepoint location), even though the Supplier has not recovered the funding cost of these Deliverables by that point? Again, please can the CCS confirm that this is the correct interpretation of the contract and that it is the CCS's intentions for the contract to be constructed this way?

99. Within the DPS Contract there is a requirement to pay a Management Levy to the Crown Commercial Service: "The Supplier will pay, excluding VAT, 0.5% of all the Charges for the Deliverables invoiced to the Buyer, or payable to the Buyer where the Deliverable is a gain-share arrangement, under all Order Contracts." If the bid requires a solution funded by the supplier (i.e. no payment by the Supplier), what assumptions or criteria should bidders use to calculate the Management Levy (if any) payable to the Crown Commercial Service under the proposed contracting arrangement?

98. Within the DPS Contract there is a requirement to pay a Management Levy to the Crown Commercial Service: "The Supplier will pay, excluding VAT, 0.5% of all the Charges for the Deliverables invoiced to the Buyer, or payable to the Buyer where the Deliverable is a gain-share arrangement, under all Order Contracts." The tender that I am considering is procured on a fully supplier funded basis so the Charges could be £0. In this case, what assumptions or criteria should bidders use to calculate the Management Levy payable to the Crown Commercial Service?

97. We are a brand new UK company formed at the end of 2021. Our parent company is German. We are applying to be registered under Electric Vehicle Charging infrastructure. However we are just one person in the UK at this point. As a result our bid to register has a 'gap'. This gap concerns insurance policies, and other social policies such as slavery and equality. There seems no point to have all these in place until we have business in the UK and engage employees. Our German parent has these policies relevant to Germany of course. Might we kindly ask you to register us anyway with the proviso that as soon as it becomes necessary (ie when we employ someone), we will put al these in place? Many thanks for your consideration of this request. If you cannot agree to it, please let us know, what we should do in order to get registered/