Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-05-13
Buyer: Department of Education
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71220000 | 71300000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-06-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DE — 2188257 — Appointment of an Economic Operator Team (EOT) for St Joseph and St James Primary School, Poyntzpass
This procurement is to appoint an Economic Operator Team (EOT) to include: project management, provision of architectural, structural, civil, building services design, and lead designer services for input and development of the employers brief, develop design proposals to RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Stage 4 and to successfully obtain planning approval prior to engaging upon the procurement of a contractor. Thereafter providing design advisory, technical review, monitoring of the contractor and audit services throughout the construction of the works. The contract will be awarded to the economic operator which has submitted the Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) using the narrow average, price scoring mechanism. Refer to PQQ package for a complete description of this procurement.
In accordance with Regulation 65(3) of the Public Contract Regulation. 2015, 5 candidates will be invited. This offers adequate competition to ensure that the employer is assured value for money and that there is sufficient opportunity offered to tenders. However, this limit also protects the industry from wasting valuable resources which are required to prepare a tender submission.
In order for an economic operator to be eligible to participate in this competition the economic. Operator team must hold all relevant licences, accreditations or certificates for specific categories and sectors as set out below; project.
— chartered membership of the Association of Project Management (APM) in a construction related role,
Equivalent professional body within your own jurisdiction, architect employees must have and maintain:
Economic operators are required to be registered and have verified Status on constructionline and should have the minimum category value (100 000 GBP) in at least one of the constructionline categories specified. below or have submitted a fully completed PQQ1A constructionline financial addendum/s. In the case where an economic operator is a group of economic operators or relying on the capacity of other entities for economic and financial standing, the economic operator as “Lead Enterprise” must have a category Value no less than 40 % of the minimum category value (40 000 GBP) required by the Contracting Authority and the sum of the category values of the group of economic operators and the other entities that it is relying on for economic and financial standing, in a “Relevant Work Category” must be greater than or equal to the minimum category value (100 000 GBP) required by the Contracting Authority project manager — project management — 71541000-2, architect 3 architectural and design services — 71220000-6 building services engineer — mechanical and electrical engineering — 71315210-4, civil engineering — civil engineering — 71311000-1, structural engineer — structural engineeing — 71312000-8, quantity surveyor — quantity surveying — 71324000-5.
In order for an economic operator to be eligible to participate in this competition. the economic operator team must hold valid insurance to all the applicable values:
1) Public liability insurance with a minimum limit of indemnity not less than 10 000 000 GBP per incident;
2) Employer’s liability insurance (economic operator only) with a minimum limit of indemnity not less than 10 000 000 GBP per incident compliant with applicable statutory requirements;
3) Professional indemnity insurance, professional indemnity insurance for all activities of a professional nature including design liability with a limit of indemnity of not less than that specified below in GBP for each and every claim economic operator 1 500 000 GBP.
The economic operator (or where the economic operator is a group of economic. operators, all parties forming the group of economic operators) must provide at least one of the core disciplines listed below from within its own resources:
The economic operators’ performance on this contract will be regularly monitored. As part of its contract management procedures, the Contracting Authority will use the protocol for managing poor supplier performance contained in Procurement Guidance Note PGN 01/12: contract management principles and procedures: https://www.financeni.gov.uk/publications/procurement-guidance-note-0112-contract-management-principles-and-procedures. If an economic operator  has  received  more than one current notice of written warning or a notice of unsatisfactory performance, the Contracting Authority, at its discretion, can consider an economic operator’s exclusion from future procurements, being undertaken on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively.
CPD, in its capacity as a Central Purchasing Body, is administering this procurement on behalf of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right:

Eligibility requirements: In order for an economic operator to be eligible to participate in this competition the economic. Operator team must hold all relevant licences, accreditations or certificates for specific categories and sectors as set out below; project. Manager employees must have and maintain one of the following: — registration with the Architect’s Registration Board (ARB), — chartered, membership of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), — chartered membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), — chartered membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), — chartered membership of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), — chartered membership of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), — chartered membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), — chartered membership of the Association of Project Management (APM) in a construction related role, — chartered membership of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT), — chartered membership of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), — chartered membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), — chartered membership of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA). Equivalent professional body within your own jurisdiction, architect employees must have and maintain: — registration with the Architect’s Registration Board (ARB), or — equivalent professional body within your own jurisdiction. Structural engineer, employees must have and maintain: — chartered membership of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), — chartered membership of engineers Ireland, or — equivalent professional body within your own, jurisdiction. Quantity surveyor employees must have and maintain: — chartered membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), or — equivalent professional body within your own jurisdiction. Electrical engineer employees must be from the electrical discipline and have and maintain: — chartered membership of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), — chartered membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), or — equivalent professional body within your own. jurisdiction. Mechanical engineer employees must be from the mechanical discipline and have and maintain: — chartered membership of the chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), — chartered membership of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), or —  equivalent professional body within your own jurisdiction. Civil engineer employees must have and maintain: — chartered membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), — chartered membership of engineers Ireland, or — equivalent professional body. within your own jurisdiction.

Award value: 200000