Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-16
Buyer: Cheshire East Borough Council
Country: UK
Region: Cheshire
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 45111000 | 45211341 | 45211360 | 45212000: Construction work for leisure buildings | 45213100
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Provision of a Cinema-anchored, Leisure-led, Mixed Use Development — Royal Arcade, Crewe Town Centre.
Cheshire East Council is seeking to procure a development partner to plan and deliver a comprehensive leisure-led, mixed-use scheme on the 1.85ha (4.57 acre) Royal Arcade site in Crewe town centre, which currently comprises 26 retail units and the town's current bus station. This comprehensive high quality development will be anchored by a new cinema, include a new bus interchange and will combine new development on the whole or a substantial part of the site with enhancements to any retained elements, improved public realm and linkages with the remainder of the town centre.
The anticipated duration of the contract will be for a period of 5 years and the value attributed to it will be between 10 000 000 GBP and 100 000 000 GBP.
The timescales and values given in this notice are estimations only and the Council gives no guarantee or warranty or makes any representation as to the accuracy of any indicative volumes.
The council reserves the right to request the winning bidder to enter into either a parent company guarantee and/or other appropriate bond when requested prior to contract finalisation, pending financial risks. Failure to agree will result in disqualification of that bidder.
In the case of consortium bids, the contracting authority reserves the right to require any consortium the authority awards a contract to, if it is justified for the satisfactory performance of the contract, to name a lead partner with whom it can contract, or alternatively, to form a single legal entity before entering into, or as a term of, the contract. The council shall not enter into a contract individually with each consortium member.
As detailed in this notice, the descriptive document and other tender document issued by the Council.
This procurement exercise will be conducted on Cheshire East Borough Council's electronic Contract andTender Management System at the www.the-chest.org.uk Organisations wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional required information through the Contract and Tender Management System. If you have any technical problems with The Contract and Tender Management System please contact the helpdesk on: Email: nwsupport@due-north.com telephone: +448452930459. In order to participate, providers must register, complete and upload completed documentation and submit this via the Chest at the link provided in this notice. The project reference on The Chest is DN106042. If and when the council continues with the dialogue and tender stage, this will be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Contract and Tender Management System. The values given in this notice are only estimations, final figures shall be considered through the competitive dialogue process. The Council gives no guarantee or warranty or makes any representation as to the accuracy of any indicative volumes — any expenditure,work or effort undertaken prior to Contract Award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of potential operators.
Cheshire East Borough Council will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations, 2015 (SI No 102) provides for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court(England,Wales and Northern Ireland).

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