Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-09-01
Buyer: Ashford Borough Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45210000: Building construction work | 45211350 | 45211360 | 45213100
Estimated value: 20000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-10-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Framework for the Provision of New Commercial Development and Refurbishment of Existing, Construction of Residential Housing Developments, Refurbishment of Council Facilities and Regeneration Activities
This is an invitation to pre-qualify for the provision of new build commercial and residential housing development, refurbishment and
Regeneration for Ashford Borough Council and/or its Property Company. The type of property may include, but will not be limited to:
Office blocks, leisure facilities, car parks, retail outlets, sheltered accommodation, houses, flats and bungalows. The term is likely to be 4 years. A bid can be made for more than one lot.
Provision of approx.60 units of general needs housing (for ABC) to be delivered between 2020 and 2025. Provision of additional units may also be required. The programme may include both new build and remodelling existing sheltered housing units.
Provision of approx.40 units within a sheltered accommodation complex (for ABC) to be delivered between 2020 and 2025. Provision of additional units.
Provision of new commercial property and refurbishment of existing units which may include, but are not limited to retail units, including regeneration and fit out, town centre development, office accommodation regeneration and fit out, conversion of office to residential, conversion of retail to office.
1) contracting authorities may exclude from participation in a procurement procedure any economic operator in any of the following situations:
(a) where the contracting authority can demonstrate by any appropriate means a violation of applicable obligations referred to in regulation (56(2);
(b) where the economic operator is bankrupt or is the subject of insolvency or winding-up proceedings, where it’s assets are being administered by a liquidator or by the court, where it is in an arrangement with creditors, where it’s business activities are suspended or it is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under the laws and regulations of any state;
(c) where the contracting authority can demonstrate by appropriate means that the economic operator is guilty of grave professional
(d) where the contracting authority has sufficiently plausible indications to conclude that the economic operator has entered into
(e) where a conflict of interest within the meaning of regulation 24 cannot be effectively remedied by other, less intrusive, measures;
(f) where a distortion of competition from the prior involvement of the economic operator in the preparation of the procurement procedure; as referred to in regulation 41, cannot be remedied by other, less intrusive, measures;
(g) where the economic operator has shown significant or persistent deficiencies in the performance of a substantive requirement under a prior public contract, a prior contract with a contracting entity, or a prior concession contract, which led to early termination of that prior contract, damages or other comparable sanctions;

Eligibility requirements: The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 Discretionary exclusions 1) contracting authorities may exclude from participation in a procurement procedure any economic operator in any of the following situations: (a) where the contracting authority can demonstrate by any appropriate means a violation of applicable obligations referred to in regulation (56(2); (b) where the economic operator is bankrupt or is the subject of insolvency or winding-up proceedings, where it’s assets are being administered by a liquidator or by the court, where it is in an arrangement with creditors, where it’s business activities are suspended or it is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under the laws and regulations of any state; (c) where the contracting authority can demonstrate by appropriate means that the economic operator is guilty of grave professional Misconduct, which renders it’s integrity questionable; (d) where the contracting authority has sufficiently plausible indications to conclude that the economic operator has entered into agreements with other economic operators aimed at distorting competition; (e) where a conflict of interest within the meaning of regulation 24 cannot be effectively remedied by other, less intrusive, measures; (f) where a distortion of competition from the prior involvement of the economic operator in the preparation of the procurement procedure; as referred to in regulation 41, cannot be remedied by other, less intrusive, measures; (g) where the economic operator has shown significant or persistent deficiencies in the performance of a substantive requirement under a prior public contract, a prior contract with a contracting entity, or a prior concession contract, which led to early termination of that prior contract, damages or other comparable sanctions; (h) where the economic operator: — has been guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required for the verification of the absence of grounds for Exclusion or the fulfilment of the selection criteria, or — has withheld such information or is not able to submit supporting documents required under regulation 59; or (i) where the economic operator has: — undertaken to: • unduly influence the decision-making process of the contracting authority, or • obtain confidential information that may confer upon it undue advantages in the procurement procedure; or — negligently provided misleading information that may have a material influence on decisions concerning exclusion, selection or award.

Award value: 20000000