Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-30
Buyer: Lancashire County Council
Country: UK
Region: Lancashire CC
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311210 | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71315200
Estimated value: 14000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Lancashire County Council intends to enter into a two-provider agreement for the provision of professional/technical services. The agreement will be for three years with the option to extend for one further year. The agreement will deliver services in the following professional disciplines: Civil engineering (Highway, Bridges and Drainage designs) and geotechnical services; Landscape and ecology services including urban design planning and public realm regeneration; Traffic Modelling and Transport Planning Services; Project management; and Grant bid preparation.
The Professional/Technical Services Framework Contract will provide additional ‘top up’ services to the Council's in-house design teams to assist the delivery of professional/technical input to County Council services listed above.
Lancashire County Council intends to enter into a two-provider agreement for the provision of professional/technical services. The agreement will be for three years with the option to extend for one further year. The agreement will deliver services in the following professional disciplines: Civil engineering (Highway, Bridges and Drainage designs) and geotechnical services; Landscape and ecology services including urban design planning and public realm regeneration; Traffic Modelling and Transport Planning Services; Project management; and Grant bid preparation.
The Professional/Technical Services Framework Contract will provide additional ‘top up’ services to the Council's in-house design teams to assist the delivery of professional/technical input to County Council services listed above.
The framework agreement will establish a threshold value whereby all packages of work under that threshold will be awarded to the highest scoring tenderer throughout the term of the agreement. Packages of work above the threshold value will be subject to mini-competition between the two providers awarded onto the framework. Please view the tender documentation for further information regarding the operation of the framework.
The information disclosed in the pre-qualification questionnaire will be used in the selection of a shortlist of a minimum of five and up to no more than the top ten scoring Consultants. The Council may choose to take less than ten Consultants through to Cycle 2 if there is deemed to be a clear benchmark in the scores.
To enable a shortlist of candidates to be drawn up, applicants must successfully meet the selection criteria contained within all sections of the PQQ. The responses to the questions contained within Section 6A will be evaluated, scored and weighted according to their importance to the process. Applicable scores and weightings for all PQQ questions can be found within the tender documents. References for the shortlisted applicants will be taken up and assessed. Poor or inadequate references will result in companies being removed from the shortlist of those applicants invited to tender. Selection will also depend upon Consultants being of an appropriate size and nature for the works to be undertaken. Please review the tender documentation for further information.
The initial term of the framework agreement is 3 years (36 months), with the option to extend by any number of defined periods provided always that the total maximum duration of the framework agreement does not exceed 4 years (48 months).
The tender documents are available on Lancashire County Council's electronic tendering site. www.lancashire.gov.uk/tendering
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Eligibility requirements: Please see tender documentation.

Award value: 14000000