Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-01
Buyer: The Trustees of St Malachy’s College Belfast
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71220000 | 71315210 | 71540000: Construction management services
Estimated value: 280000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-08-02
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The objective of this procurement is the provision of construction related professional services by a team of consultants and their supply chain, collectively referred to as the Integrated Consultant Team (ICT). The ICT will actively develop the employer's requirements, prepare the concept and developed design for new teaching accommodation building(s), internal refurbishment and associated siteworks and shall provide professional services applicable to all RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Stage 1-7. The contract will be awarded to the ICT which has submitted the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) based on the Narrow Average Price Scoring Mechanism.
In accordance with the Regulation 65(3) of the Public Contract Regulation 2015, 6 candidates will be invited. This offers adequate competition to ensure that the employer is assured value for money and that there is sufficient opportunity offered to tenderers. However, this limit also protects the industry from wasting valuable resources which are required to prepare a tender submission. The indicative timetable for the main stages of the procurement process is set out in the table below.
Award criteria is set out in the instruction to tenderers document. Please refer to ITT Document 3 of 4 scope of services, for detailed description of the procurement.
In order to be eligible to participate all consultants within the ICT and their supply chain shall be registered as a chartered member of the association or institution specific to their profession. For example architects shall be registered as a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) or equivalent. Consultant to be eligible to participate in this competition they must hold licenses, accreditations or certificates of specific categories and sectors as follows:
— chartered membership of the Association of Project Management (APM) in a construction related role,
Economic operators are required to be registered and have verified status on Constructionline and should have the minimum category value (85 000 GBP) in at least one of the Constructionline categories specified or have submitted a fully completed PQQ1A Constructionline financial addendums. In the case where an economic operator is a group of economic operators or relying on the capacity of other entities for economic and financial standing, the economic operator as ‘Leads Enterprise’ must have a category value no less than 40 % of the minimum category value (30 000 GBP) required by the Contracting Authority and the sum of the category values of the group of economic operators and the other entities that it is relying on for economic and financial standing, in a ‘Relevant Work Category’ must be greater than or equal to the minimum category value (85 000 GBP) required by the Contracting Authority.
In order for an economic operator to be eligible to participate in this competition the economic operator team must hold valid insurance to all the applicable values:
1) Public liability insurance with a minimum limit of indemnity not less than 10 000 000 GBP per incident;
2)Employer’s liability insurance (economic operator only) with a minimum limit of indemnity not less than 10 000 000 GBP per incident compliant with applicable statutory requirements.
Professional indemnity insurance for all activities of a professional nature including design liability with a limit of indemnity of not less than that specified below in GBP for each and every claim 2 000 000 GBP.
The economic operator (or where the economic operator is a group of economic operators, all parties forming the group of economic operators) must provide at least 1 of the core disciplines listed below from within its own resources:
The economic operators’ performance on this contract will be regularly monitored. As part of its contract management procedures, the Contracting Authority will use the protocol for managing poor supplier performance contained in Procurement Guidance Note PGN 01/12 — Contract management principles and procedures: https://www.financeni.gov.uk/publications/procurement-guidance-note-0112-contract-management-principles-and-procedures
If an economic operator has received. more than 1 current Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance, the Contracting Authority, at its discretion, can consider an economic operator’s exclusion from future procurements, being undertaken on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively.
CPD, in its capacity as a Central Purchasing Body, is administering this procurement on behalf of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right:

Eligibility requirements: In order to be eligible to participate all consultants within the ICT and their supply chain shall be registered as a chartered member of the association or institution specific to their profession. For example architects shall be registered as a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) or equivalent. Consultant to be eligible to participate in this competition they must hold licenses, accreditations or certificates of specific categories and sectors as follows: Project manager: employees must have and maintain one of the following: — registration with the Architect’s Registration Board (ARB), — chartered membership of the Institute of Structural Engineers (IStructE), — chartered membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), — chartered membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), — chartered membership of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), — chartered membership of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), — chartered membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), — chartered membership of the Association of Project Management (APM) in a construction related role, — chartered membership of the Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT), — chartered membership of the Institute of Building (CIOB), — chartered membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), — chartered membership of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA), — equivalent professional body within your own jurisdiction. Architect: employees must have and maintain the following: — registration with the Architect’s Registration Board (ARB), — equivalent professional body within your own jurisdiction. Mechanical and electrical engineers: employees must have and maintain the following: — chartered membership of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), — chartered membership of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), — chartered membership of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET).

Award value: 280000