Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-05-12
Buyer: City of London Corporation
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71300000 | 71310000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-06-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Barbican Centre, London Symphony Orchestra (‘LSO’) and Guildhall School of Music & Drama (‘GSMD’), are working in partnership to develop plans, funded by the City of London Corporation, for a new Centre for Music in the City of London. The Barbican Centre, LSO and GSMD wish (through the City of London Corporation) to procure the services of an Civil and Structural Engineer as an integral part of a design team for the Centre for Music and to progress its capital project to project completion. The Centre for Music will be a state-of-the-art, outstanding building with a world-class concert hall, education, training and digital spaces, excellent facilities for audiences and performers, and supporting commercial areas.
Other disciplines will be procured individually as detailed within the associated SQ and Tender documents available at www.capitalesourcing.com webpage.
The Architect/Lead Designer, Civil and Structural Engineer, Building Services Engineer, Acoustic Consultant and Theatre Consultant will be procured independently. The initial appointment will be for concept design to support the business case for the Centre for Music with provision to instruct further RIBA design stages.
The scope of service for the Civil and Structural Engineer will include geotechnical engineering and Traffic Engineering. If there is no capability in house these should be included as sub consultants.
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates as stated in the procurement documents.
Total estimated value excluding VAT:  4 000 000 GBP Maximum budget for the concept design developed sufficiently to support and inform the business case is  75 000 GBP.
Duration in months: estimated at 115 months plus 36 months soft landings. The contract length is dependent on the time table for the availability of the site.
In accordance with Articles 57 and 58 of the Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulations 57 and 58 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and as set out in the SQ.
With reference to section IV.3.4) requests to participate must be made by completion of a SQ. The SQ is available from the contact point in section I.1) and from the URL as follows: www.capitalEsourcing.com
The contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time which shall include the right not to award contract/s and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received and reserves the right to award contract/s in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.
The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in participating in this procurement process, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these.
The contracting authority will incorporate a standstill period from the date when information on the award of the contract/s is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. Part 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provides for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the Regulations to take action in the High Court (England and Wales). Any such action must be brought within the applicable limitation periods.


Award value: 4000000