Overseas Capital Framework

Text to be corrected in the original notice: Place of text to be modified: Section VI: Complementary information VI.2) Additional information: Instead of: Event 2: To be held in Cyprus Read: Event 2: To be held in Cyprus on 10th September 2019 Other additional information: This Prior Information Notice is to signal an intention to commence market engagement with those within the Buildings and Civil engineering market.

DIO intends to hold two Market Engagement Events.

Event 1 - To be in held in Glasgow on 14th August 2019 Event 2 - to be held in Cyprus on 10th September 2019 As part of the selection stage of the competition, for each Regional Sub-Lot, bidders will be required to provide evidence of technical and professional capability by demonstrating previous experience of acting as Principal Contractor in the relevant region, in addition to demonstrating the capability to deliver the scope of the requirements within the Lot and Regional Sub-Lot(s).

All contract examples used by bidders to demonstrate technical and professional capability in a Lot will be required to be examples where the bidder itself acted as Principal Contractor.

If the bidder cannot provide the required contract examples, it will be excluded from the competition for the relevant Lot(s) and Regional sub-Lot(s).

Bidders who fail the selection criteria for a Regional sub-Lot will be excluded from the competition for that Regional Sub-Lot.

In order to provide interested parties with early visibility of how technical and professional capability will be assessed at selection stage (including at Regional Sub-Lot level), DIO has published the relevant questions and evaluation criteria on its website at: TBC Bidders should note that DIO may implement PPN 04/18 as part of the selection criteria for this competition.

Further information on this PPN can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-policy-note-0418-taking-account-of-a-suppliers-approach-to-payment-in-the-procurement-of-major-contracts If you have any questions or comments in respect of this project please email TBC Further information on previous market engagement to support developing the strategy for this proposed competition can be located on the DIO website: The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy.

If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a Security Aspects Letter), the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies, or otherwise.

The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification. https://www.gov.uk/governme