Public procurement notice: Modification Of A Contract/Concession During Its Term
Published: 2020-11-04
Buyer: Denbighshire County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 37480000 | 43325000 | 45212000: Construction work for leisure buildings | 45212100 | 45212110
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: Extension of the UK Leisure Framework until 31 January 2022 on the same terms as let, and in any event such extension period shall be limited to 50 % of the value of the original framework agreement in accordance with Regulation 72 Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
The current supplier, Alliance Leisure have confirmed to Denbighshire Leisure Limited (wholly owned Company of the Council and are contracted to manage the existing framework on the Council’s behalf and are supportive of the extension) that they would be willing to continue with the current framework.
EXTENSION OF THE COUNCIL'S UK LEISURE FRAMEWORK RESOLVED that Cabinet approve the extension of the UK Leisure Framework until January 2022 on the same terms as let, and in any event such extension period shall be limited to 50 % of the value of the original framework agreement in accordance with Regulation 72 Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
At this stage it is not known if any client authority may access EU funds in order to fund any project under the framework agreement.
The Council, the ‘Contracting Authority’ who awarded the framework, could not have foreseen, at the time of the original letting, a global pandemic. In such unforeseen situations, provided the thresholds of the extension are met, it will be lawful to extend.
Such pandemic has hit certain industries significantly, in particular the leisure industry and it’s supply chain, whose staff will have been, or remain furloughed and would not be in a state of readiness to pull together the tender submission for a substantial UK wide bid.
Similarly, the Council and its wholly owned Company, Denbighshire Leisure Limited have been operating within the pandemic restrictions and staff redeployed and public services focused elsewhere. The setting up of any framework on any scale involves a resource
It is therefore in the interests of the Council, and Denbighshire Leisure Limited, but also in fairness to all providers in the market, to delay the launch of a new procurement process during this crisis until next year, when a planned new exercise will commence. Meet the
Buyer and pre-procurement market engagement can take place, which should encourage competition and therefore best value for the Council and Denbighshire Leisure Limited as it prepares to go out to the market for the third generation framework.
Extension of the UK Leisure Framework until 31 January 2022 on the same terms as let, and in any event such extension period shall be limited to 50 % of the value of the original framework agreement in accordance with Regulation 72 Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
The Council, the ‘Contracting Authority’ who awarded the framework, could not have foreseen, at the time of the original letting, a global pandemic. In such unforeseen situations, provided the thresholds of the extension are met, it will be lawful to extend.


Winner: Alliance Leisure Services Ltd