Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-10-08
Buyer: Thames Water Utilities Limited
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71322100 | 71324000: Quantity surveying services
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Thames Water Utilities Limited (TWUL), by this Notice, is setting up a new qualification system (which is referred to below as the ‘Register’), being a new Register (FA1300) for Professional Services which has been split into Lots as listed below. This replaces the current qualification system (reference 2015/S 108-197093)but only in respect of Lots no 19, 22, 27. Anyone qualified on that qualification system or any other qualification system is required to reapply for qualification under this new qualification system if they wish to be considered for framework agreements or contracts in relation to the Lots listed below.
The total spend on Professional Services listed against each Lot has been estimated over the remainder of AMP6. AMP6 is the current Asset Management Plan underway within the water sector in England and Wales and runs from 1.4.2015 to 31.3.2020. The exact proportion of spend that will be sourced via this Register is currently unknown.
Applications are invited for any or all of the following lots. Core scope includes, but is not limited to the services described under each lot:
Lot 1 — Engineering Consultancy (3 000 000 — 5 000 000 GBP): Scope of work will vary from project to project,and may include any or all of the initial investigation/study, feasibility studies, preliminary design, detailed design, construction phase design support, planning/cost/project management, commissioning and post construction phases across various disciplines including, but not limited to, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering, control & instrumentation design, process design, architecture building, structural engineering,building services, site surveys/geotechnical investigations, hydrological, hydrogeological & water resource services, reservoir services, waste-water and clean water network and process modelling and the like;
Lot 2 — Commercial Consultancy (3 000 000 — 5 000 000 GBP): Scope of work will vary from project to project,and may include any or all of the commercial strategy development/review, Quantity Surveying Services which cover initial cost studies, cost estimating, detailed estimating, cost and planning, agreement of final accounts and valuations. Services required may also include planning and project management resource, cost auditing,procurement services and the like;
Lot 3 — Environmental Consultancy (5 000 000 — 7 000 000 GBP): Scope of environmental consulting work will vary from project to project and may include any or all of odour impact assessments, environmental impact assessments, ecological surveys, flow monitoring, groundwater level measurement, water quality sampling and analysis, drought planning, planning/project management resource and the like;
Lot 4 — Dispute Resolution (5 000 000 — 10 000 000 GBP): Provision of commercial and/or contractual management and review of contracts and support and assistance to TWUL in relation to contractor/ supplierclaims and contractual and/or commercial disputes. This will include preparation of mitigation strategies, front line analysis, contract management, preparation for adjudication, arbitration, expert determination or court proceedings and assisting in the negotiation and settlement of contractual and/or commercial disputes and the like, working alongside TWUL's business and in conjunction with TWUL's external legal advisers and/or other third party consultants.
Lot 5 — Business Consultancy (20 000 000 — 30 000 000 GBP): Provision of management and business consulting, strategy consulting, transformation, cultural change, audit and assurance, financial services and the like (Please note the scope of FA1264 Technology and Transformation Alliance (2015/S 187-340119) may include an element of business consultancy). Lot 5 will be subdivided into the following sub-lots:
and applicants to Lot 5 will be assessed for qualification to Lot 5 as a single lot and also assessed on whether they also qualify to be entered onto any or all sub-lots based on their level of experience relevant to that sub-lot. An applicant may qualify to Lot 5 with a sufficient breadth of experience across the Lot, but may not have sufficient experience in any one area to qualify into any sub-lot. An applicant with sufficient experience to qualify within a sub-lot, will automatically quality into Lot 5 as a whole. In using the Register to procure services falling with a particular sub-lot or sub-lots, Thames Water may use for its initial selection of candidates to tender or negotiate either (1) those qualified onto the relevant sub-lot(s) or (2) those qualified onto Lot 5 as a whole.
In addition to the turnover criteria set out above, applicants will also be assessed on other criteria against their responses set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).
Successful applicants will become part of the Thames Water Professional Services Register. Being on this Register does not give the supplier any guarantee of work, but may enable the supplier to bid for framework agreements, and contracts for individual projects, to be set up through the Register from time to time. Framework agreements set up from this Register may be available for use by Thames Water's Alliances partners or others authorised by Thames Water.
To be considered for the first phase of awards from this Register, a PQQ to apply for acceptance on the Register(as referred to below) requires completion by 12:00, 14.12.2015.
First phase of Framework Agreement competition for Lots 1 — 4 under this Register will commence in January 2016.
These Framework Agreements will cover the remainder of AMP6 and will have the potential to extend the arrangements to the AMP7 and AMP8 periods respectively.