Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-10
Buyer: The University of Manchester
Country: UK
Region: Greater Manchester
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71200000 | 71220000 | 71240000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 1800000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-06
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Jodrell Bank — The First Light Project — Architecture Lead Multi- Disciplinary Consultant Team — Consultant Services.
The First Light project is a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) supported initiative that aims to conserve and restore the heritage at the Jodrell Bank site and create a spectacular new visitor space to display the history of Radio Astronomy. This project will be part of a wider investment and development at Jodrell Bank, part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.
The University has adopted a strategy to procure the full Consultancy services required for this project at this time, with the key initial driver being to move forward and meet the time scale deadline date for the submission of a ‘HLF Round 2’ Bid.
Currently the University is undertaking separate procurements for the Project and Cost Manager roles, respectively. The aim and requirement of this procurement is to procure and appoint all the remaining Consultant Services required for this project under a Lead Consultant Architect appointment as a single commission and contract with the Lead Consultant Architect.
Procurement documentation can be found electronically at the following address: https://intendhost.co.uk/universityofmanchester/aspx/Home
The figures given are an estimate only of the total value of the project and should not be taken as a guarantee of income.
Please note: The indicative figure provided below is for the entire services listed in the Tender Documentation, this includes all core consultant services and other required consultancy services.
If it is considered appropriate by the University, an indemnity, guarantee, bond or other form of appropriate security may be required for contracts awarded under this arrangement.
The University's particular requirements will be set out in the tender documentation but it should be noted that the University reserves the right to require groupings of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single operator to take primary liability for a contract to be performed by a group of economic operators or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability in respect of the entire contract irrespective of the form the grouping takes.
In accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended and as set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT).
The University intends to invite between 5-8 candidates to participate in the ITN on the basis of the ranking of candidates at PQQ stage at which the criteria referred to in Regulation 65 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, as amended will be assessed and marked.
In the event that candidates' scores are tied resulting in the maximum number to be shortlisted (8) being exceeded, a tiebreaker exercise will be conducted by the University. Those candidates who are tied will be separated by their scores received in the following (in order of precedence).

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In accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended and as set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT). Information as detailed in the ITT.
In accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended and as set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT).
Information as detailed in the ITT.
Information as detailed in the ITT. Information as detailed in the ITT.