Contract

Property Managing Agent and Marketing Services - Rest of HIE area

  • Highlands and Islands Enterprise
  • Inverness Campus Owners Association
  • Orkney Research and Innovation Campus LLP

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-066613

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04b294 (view related notices)

Published 20 October 2025, 10:45am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Highlands and Islands Enterprise

An Lòchran, 10 Inverness Campus

Inverness

IV2 5NA

Email

hieprocurement@hient.co.uk

Telephone

+44 1463383084

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKM6 - Highlands and Islands

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://www.hie.co.uk

Buyer's address

https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00313

one.1) Name and addresses

Inverness Campus Owners Association

C/O Highlands and Islands Enterprise, An Lòchran,

Inverness Campus, Inverness

IV2 5NA

Email

ICOA@hient.co.uk

Telephone

+44 1463245245

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKM62 - Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.invernesscampus.co.uk/

Buyer's address

https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA23323

one.1) Name and addresses

Orkney Research and Innovation Campus LLP

The Robert Rendall Building, Franklin Road

Stromness

KW16 3AN

Email

facilitiesmanagement@orkneycampus.co.uk

Telephone

+44 7922426446

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.orkneycampus.co.uk/

Buyer's address

https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA30475

one.2) Information about joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local Agency/Office

one.5) Main activity

Economic and financial affairs


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Property Managing Agent and Marketing Services - Rest of HIE area

Reference number

FTS035

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 70332200 - Commercial property management services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Activities will include property management, valuation and marketing.

The Framework has a start date of 5.11.2025 and an end date of 4.11.2028 plus an optional 12 month extension.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £947,866.67

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKM6 - Highlands and Islands
  • UKM65 - Orkney Islands
  • UKM66 - Shetland Islands

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

THIS FRAMEWORK HAS BEEN AWARDED. The figure used in II.1.7 and V.2.4 is the estimated Framework value including the optional extension period.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Prompt Payment / Weighting: Pass/Fail

Quality criterion - Name: Cyber Security / Weighting: Pass/Fail

Quality criterion - Name: Community Benefits / Weighting: Pass/Fail

Quality criterion - Name: Financial Management and Reporting / Weighting: 10%

Quality criterion - Name: Property Management and Marketing / Weighting: 15%

Quality criterion - Name: Management and Delivery Team / Weighting: 10%

Quality criterion - Name: Sustainability / Weighting: 5%

Quality criterion - Name: Implementation and Handover / Weighting: 5%

Quality criterion - Name: Fair Work / Weighting: 5%

Price - Weighting: 50%

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options

HIE may require the supplier to provide additional services particularly with regard to demand and budgetary availability or where HIE’s strategic focus changes as a result of changes in Scottish Government policy or as a result of a direction given to them by the Scottish Government. Any such modification shall be in terms of Regulation 72 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. This may result in amendments to requirements under the Framework, including but not limited to:

- reduction/ removal of Services, e.g., HIE actioning more of the services or elements of the services themselves

- the addition of similar Services

- increasing the volume of Services

- removal or addition of sites as the size of the HIE portfolio fluctuates

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

two.2.14) Additional information

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2025/S 000-045567


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

FTS035

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

16 October 2025

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 2

Number of tenders received from SMEs: 2

Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 2

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

F.G. Burnett Limited

33 Albyn Place

Aberdeen

AB10 1YL

Telephone

+44 1224597518

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKM50 - Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire
The contractor is an SME

Yes

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: £947,866.67

five.2.5) Information about subcontracting

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the part of the contract to be subcontracted

Rennie Property Consultants for Marketing and ad hoc professional/valuation advice.


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

(SC Ref:811503)

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Inverness Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court

The Inverness Justice Centre, Longman Road

Inverness

IV1 1AH

Email

inverness@scotcourts.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 1463230782

Country

United Kingdom

Internet address

https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/the-courts/court-locations/inverness-sheriff-court-and-justice-of-the-peace-court

six.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures

An economic operator that suffers, or is at risk of suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.