Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-11-11
Buyer: North Ayrshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45111200 | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45220000 | 45222000
Estimated value: 14305100 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-01-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: North Ayrshire Council intend to award a contract for the supply of civils design and construction for the flood protection scheme in Kilbirnie, Glengarnock and Dalry, North Ayrshire, West Scotland.
An important element of this contract will entail working closely with our project manager, external engineering consultants and project managers to ensure coordination of all the groundworks and construction works. The successful contractor will be appointed the principal contractor and be responsible for all CDM (2015) Regulations.
— construction of an online storage reservoir by means of a culverted earthworks dam constructed across the River Garnock just north of Kilbirnie,
— direct defences adjacent to the River Garnock in the Paddockholm area of Kilbirnie, on the Powgree Burn in Glengarnock and adjacent to the DSM plant in Dalry,
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 ‘general’ yearly turnover of 21 000 000 GBP for the last 3 years.
Bidders will be required to have a minimum yearly turnover of 21 000 000 GBP for the last 3 years in the business area covered by the contract.
Bidders who cannot meet the required level of turnover will be excluded from this tender. 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.
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.
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:
Other = tenderers shall take out and maintain, throughout the period of the contract, statutory third-party motor vehicles cover in accordance with the provisions of the current Road Traffic Act 1988 (as amended). A valid motor vehicle certificate in the company name, or (where there is no fleet but rather the company permits employees to use their personal vehicles for business purposes), a letter signed by a person of appropriate authority, confirming that the company has ongoing arrangements in place to ensure their employees' vehicles are appropriately insured and maintained.
Tenderers should refer to Insurance and Liabilities (Section 3.8) as detailed within the contract data for full insurance requirements and details.
Bidders will be required to provide 3 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 3 satisfactory references for the Same 3 works contracts used in the bidder’s experience examples on the reference templates provided. References should be completed and signed by the previous customers. If any of the referees score the bidder less than 2 the bidder will be excluded from the tender process.
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.

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. Bidders must confirm if they hold the particular authorisation or memberships.

Award value: 14305100