Expanding the Publicly Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Network in Glasgow City Region

Glasgow City Council, as the Lead Authority on behalf of the following eight Member Authorities (MAs) in Glasgow City Region, (East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, and West Dunbartonshire) is seeking to award a contract to one Charge Point Operator (CPO), on behalf of the MAs. The CPO will be required to provide a full Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (EVCI) turnkey service via 20-year concession contract which will include both the migration of around 627 existing charge points and minimum of 3034 new charge points at council owned assets and on-street locations.

The services shall consist of Supply, Installation, Maintenance of Charging infrastructure and Back Office Services for publicly accessible charge points for all eight MAs. It is expected that a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation will be applied to the award of the contract in accordance with Regulation 27(4)(c) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

The contracting authority, however, reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the initial tender without further negotiation. (Please refer to Document Two-ITP - section 2.2.1)

In alignment with the Scottish Government and Transport Scotland’s vision for Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (EVCI), the Glasgow City Region(GCR) member authorities aim to support the expansion of a comprehensive network of publicly accessible EVCI across the region. This expansion will be driven by leveraging private sector expertise and capital.

It creates a charging network that complements standalone private investment beyond the scope of this initiative. In doing so, GCR aims to work with a CPO through a concession contract that will deliver a comprehensive, convenient, reliable and accessible charging network that meets the needs of users.

The CPO will install, own, maintain and operate the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure and any Ancillary Equipment other than that which the Member Authorities have a regulatory duty to adopt. The CPO will be entitled to charge Electric Vehicle Owners for use of the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure.

The CPO will be responsible for financing the costs of designing, purchasing, installing, operating, maintaining and upgrading of EV infrastructure net of any capital funding made available to the CPO by the council through the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund or with the local authorities of the GCR as may be agreed with them on an ad-hoc basis. The contract will include: i.The migration of 627 chargepoints across 305 locations for standard, fast and rapid chargepoints onto the CPO’s back-office system.This will require to take place within a 3-month period in order to meet the deadline of the ending of the Charge Place Scotland service. ii.

Installation and operation of a minimum of 3,034 additional chargepoints on sites owned or controlled by the MAs (car parks and on-street locations) to be agreed between the MAs and CPO following contract award. To ensure the equitable geographic deployment of new charge points throughout GCR, the deployment programme will require to be undertaken across the 8 MAs at an annual rate proportionate to a MA’s population share within GCR so that the delivery does not favour one geographic area over another.It may also include the installation of additional sites which can be requested by the Lead Authority or proposed by the CPO.

Completion timeline period for the new installation of the 3,034 additional charge points is expected to be up to 5 years from contract signing. The contract term will be 20 years.

Turnover - at the present time it is estimated that the turnover, over the 20-year contract term and based on an assumption of inflation at 2.5% per annum, will be in the region of GBP 785 million (excluding VAT). Grant Funding - Glasgow City Council, on behalf of the 8 MAs has been allocated a grant of up to GBP 3,300,000 from Transport Scotland’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund to in connection with the delivery of the project. Bidders are requested to review Document Two - Invitation to Participate which contains the details of the minimum requirements for this procurement within section 3.