Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-04
Buyer: Ashford Borough Council
Country: UK
Region: Kent
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45210000: Building construction work | 45211100 | 45211200 | 45211300
Estimated value: 50000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: 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, retail outlets, sheltered accommodation, houses, flats and bungalows. The term is likely to be 4 years. A bid can be made for more than 1 Lot.
The Council may during the course of the framework provide new commercial property and refurbish existing units which may include, but are not limited to, office accommodation, retail units, urban regeneration and development.
The Council may during the course of the framework provide new commercial property and refurbishment 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.
The Council may during the course of the framework provide new industrial units and leisure facilities, and refurbishment of existing property, including but not limited to, construction of industrial sheds, construction of start-up units, construction of community centres/facilities, refurbishment of leisure facilities.
Ashford Borough Council has secured funding from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) for the provision of 60 units of general need housing to be delivered between 2015 and 2020. A report detailing these works will be considered by Members of the Council's Cabinet Committee in early 2016. Further funding may become available during the term of the framework for the provision of additional units. The programme may include both new build and remodelling existing sheltered housing units during the course of the framework for both the Council and the Council's Property Company.
Ashford Borough Council has secured funding from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) for the provision of 46 units included within a sheltered accommodation complex to be delivered between 2015 and 2020. A report detailing these works will be considered by Members of the Council's Cabinet Committee in early 2016. Further funding may become available during the term of the framework for the provision of additional units for both the Council and the Council's Property Company.
(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;
(i) 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

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 — (i) 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 (ii) Has withheld such information or is not able to submit supporting documents required under regulation 59; or (i) Where the economic operator has — (i) Undertaken to — (aa) Unduly influence the decision-making process of the contracting authority, or (bb) Obtain confidential information that may confer upon it undue advantages in the procurement procedure; or (ii) Negligently provided misleading information that may have a material influence on decisions concerning exclusion, selection or award.

Award value: 50000000