Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-26
Buyer: High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71300000 | 71310000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311230
Estimated value: 280000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: HS2 Phase Two Civils Design and Environmental Services (including Environmental Overview Consultant) Procurement — Contracts C1000_231, C1000_232, C1000_233.
HS2 Ltd requires Professional Services Consultants (PSCs) services to deliver Civils Design and Environmental services & Environmental Overview Consultant (EOC) services for Phase Two of HS2.
The contracts for the PSC services are split into 3 Lots on a geographic basis as detailed below and Lot 3 also includes the EOC services;
Lot 1 — C1000_231 — Civils Design and Environmental Services (M2 and M3 — Manchester Leg Spine and Manchester Leg Spur respectively),
Lot 2 — C1000_232 — Civils Design and Environmental Services (L1 and L2 — Leeds Leg South & East Midlands respectively) and Lot 3 — C1000_233 — Civils Design, Environmental Services (L3 and L4 — Leeds Leg Central & Leeds Leg North respectively) and Environmental Overview Consultant (EOC).
HS2 Ltd does however reserve the right to vary the scope of discrete elements of the services between Lots as outlined in Section VI.3 and the pre-qualification pack. Further information is provided in section VI.3
HS2 Ltd is the company responsible for developing and promoting the High Speed 2 (HS2) network and is wholly owned by the Department for Transport.
The HS2 network will provide high capacity, high speed rail links between London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester (including Manchester Airport), with intermediate stations in the East Midlands and South Yorkshire. The new high speed network is being planned and is to be built in 2 phases. Phase 1 from London to Birmingham and Phase Two, from Birmingham to Leeds and Manchester.
The broad project aim for Phase Two is to gain Royal Assent to a hybrid Bill that enables HS2 Ltd to construct, operate and maintain a high speed railway, with the optimum balance between cost, environmental and community impact and engineering design, for the Phase 2 route, integrating seamlessly with Phase 1 and as part of a national rail network.
A contract duration of 90 months has been specified. This is an estimate and the precise duration may be longer as it is dependent on external factors such as HS2 Ltd obtaining Royal Assent for the Phase 2 hybrid Bill and the requisite handover to a Phase 2 Delivery Partner.
The estimated value of the contract is between 280 000 000 GBP and 350 000 000 GBP. (excl VAT) based on 2015 prices.
These figures are estimates for information only and the total value of the contract may vary in practice dependent on the requirements of HS2.
Due to the resources, range and depth of skills needed to undertake the Civils Design, Environmental Services and Environmental Overview Consultant contracts, the Applicants may wish to combine to form consortia or apply as the main consultant relying on sub consultants to deliver some of the services. This may, for example, apply to entities who feel that alone they do not have the capacity or capability to address the size and scale of HS2 Ltd's requirement. Whilst groupings of organisations and consortia can participate in the procurement without taking a specific legal form, HS2 Ltd may rely upon regulation 28(3) of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) in order to contract with a single entity.