Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-07-28
Buyer: Watford Community Housing
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 03419000 | 09331000: Solar panels | 14210000 | 14212200 | 18143000
Estimated value: 150000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: In collaboration with Watford Community Housing, Pretium has developed a framework agreement for the provision of materials supply and managed services, which will be available to other contracting authorities in the UK. The framework will be delivered through a single supplier.
Materials supply and managed services framework for the supply of building and construction materials through a single provider to contracting authorities across the UK. WCH/Pretium followed a single-stage Open procurement process in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 through which they sought Tenders from suppliers with relevant experience, skills, knowledge and capacity to deliver the framework requirements.
All criteria and exclusion grounds that were used to evaluate received tenders were set out in the procurement and tender documents, which were freely available to download from the EU Supply portal. Watford Community Housing has appointed Pretium Frameworks Ltd (Pretium) to manage the framework agreement during its term.
(ii) any entity or joint venture company that the Trust or any other Trust Member holds an interest in from time to time (a ‘Trust JV’);
(iii) any social housing provider in the United Kingdom (excluding the Trust, the Trust Members and the Trust JVs);
(iv) any supply chain member of any social housing provider in the United Kingdom, including direct labour organisations and suppliers (excluding the Trust, the Trust Members and the Trust JVs);
(v) any national, regional or local health authority in the United Kingdom including, without limitation, any NHS the Trust, and any organisation providing a service to these bodies;
(vi) any local or regional authority in the United Kingdom (including any arms length organisation or service provider working on their behalf) delivering any public or private sector construction related projects including, without limitation, housing, education, highways and infrastructure work; and
(vii) any service provider delivering services to any other Government Agency in the United Kingdom including, without limitation, the Ministry of Defence and the Highways Agency and in the case of the organisations listed in (iii) to (vii) above, who has entered into an access agreement with the Trust and whose identity has been notified in writing by Pretium to the supplier.
The contracting authority reserved the right to cancel the procurement and not to proceed with the contract/framework at any stage of the procurement process. The contracting authority also reserved the right not to award the contract/framework. Neither the contracting authority nor any person on whose behalf of whom this procurement is undertaken is to be liable for any costs incurred by those Tendering for this framework.
Pretium and WCH observed a 10-day standstill period in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended).


Winner: Travis Perkins Trading Company Ltd
Award value: 150000000
Number of bids: 3