Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-06
Buyer: Department for Infrastructure Transport NI
Country: UK
Region: Northern Ireland
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 60000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-01-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Department is seeking to form a framework agreement comprising 6 suitably qualified and experienced companies to provide engineering design consultancy services to assist the Department in taking forward the planning, assessment and delivery of TransportNI Major Works Programme.
The duration of the Framework shall initially be 2 years and may be extended on any number of occasions up to a maximum of 4 years at the sole discretion of the employer.
It is anticipated that the 10 Economic Operators that satisfy the completeness and compliance checks, the criteria for the rejection of Economic Operators, the information as to economic and financial standing and who achieve the highest scores in the technical or professional ability evaluation process will be short-listed and invited to submit tenders. Where there is a tie for 10th place, then all Economic Operators in 10th place will be invited to tender. For the purposes of this exercise a tie for 10th place is deemed to occur where two or more Economic Operators have identical scores or a score within 2. marks (out of a score of 100) of the 10th place score.
The estimated fee value, excluding VAT, of the Services is in the cost range 20 000 000 GBP to 60 000 000 GBP over the 4-year period.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for Economic Operators that are small or medium enterprises.. (SMEs). The evaluation of submissions (PQQPs or TSPs) will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract. will be awarded on the basis stated in II.2.5). All documents will only be available on line through the eTendersNI portal. 1. If your company. is not already registered on eTendersNI you may do so through the eTendersNI portal https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do Select. the ‘Register as a Supplier’ link and follow the on screen instructions.
2. Expression of Interest and access to Tender Documentation. You may ‘Express an Interest’ in a project and access the Tender Documentation via the projects CfT Menu. If you require assistance or help to navigate the site please consult the on-line help, or contact the eTendersNI help desk. The documents may be downloaded up to the closing date and time for the submission. Submissions must be completed and returned to the contracting authority using. the online eTendersNI portal, to arrive not later than the time and date as stated in IV.2.2). The contracting authority is utilising an. electronic tendering system to manage this procurement and to communicate with Economic Operators. Accordingly, it is intended that all communications with the contracting authority, including the accessing and submission of tender responses, will be conducted via. eTendersNI. The successful contractor's performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory. levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in the Department for Infrastructure for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified. period, it may be regarded as an. act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be. terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement. Policy for a period of 12 months from the date of issue of the certificate.


Award value: 60000000