Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-03-12
Buyer: North Ayrshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45210000: Building construction work | 45214000: Construction work for education buildings | 45214200 | 45400000 | 45450000
Estimated value: 8650000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-04-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: North Ayrshire Council requires a new build primary school including a nursery which will be built on the site of the old Glengarnock Academy in Kilbirnie. This will be a replacement for the current Moorpark Primary School.
The contract duration will be 65 weeks construction period and expected contract start date is August 2020.
The construction of a predominately single storey new build primary school and nursery (approx. total area 3 000 m
The works include groundworks, glulam timber frame, cross laminated timber structure, structural timber walls, brickwork, roof and wall cladding, joiner work, wall finishes, floor finishes, suspended ceilings, fixed furniture, decoration, siphonic roof drainage, plumbing, mechanical and electrical installations together with associated site works, underground drainage and external services.
If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum ‘specific’ yearly turnover of GBP 13 840 000 for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up/started trading.
NAC reserve the right to review the bidders financial information including information from credit reference agencies at tender stage and throughout the life of the contract and seek clarifications if necessary. If clarifications are not satisfactory the bidder may be excluded from the tender process.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
Bidders will be required to provide 2 examples of works carried out in the past 5 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the work as described in part II.2.4) of this contract notice. The works must be of a similar value, size and scope. Unsatisfactory experience will result in a fail and exclusion from the tender process.
Bidders must provide 2 satisfactory references on the reference templates provided. References submitted must be for the same 2 experience examples used. References should be completed and signed by previous customers for contracts of a similar nature, value scope and size. If any of the referees score the bidder less than 2 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.
Completed experience and reference templates must be uploaded into the general attachments area of the qualification envelope.
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
1) The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent), or
2) A quality management policy authorised by their chief executive or equivalent. Please see the ESPD Guidance documents in the instruction to tenderers document for full details.

Eligibility requirements: For completion by Non-UK businesses only: If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established.

Award value: 8650000