Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-18
Buyer: Southern Health Social Care Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71324000: Quantity surveying services
Estimated value: 800000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-31
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: SO2472364 TSSC Quantity Surveying Service for the Administration of SHSCT Framework for Building Maintenance and Minor Works
The client invites tenderers to provide the service in accordance with the NEC4 term service short contract for quantity surveying services for the administration of building maintenance and minor works for the SHSCT. The contract is for the provision of quantity surveying services associated with the administration of the SHSCT building maintenance, minor building works and community aids and adaptations.
Framework can renewed for a further 12 months upon completion of 36 month period. Subject to mutual agreement in writing between client and contractor.
Economic operators are required to be registered on Constructionline and should have the minimum category value (200 000 GBP) in at least 1 of the constructionline categories specified. 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 (80 000 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 (3 400 000 GBP) required by the contracting authority quantity surveying, quantity surveying services 71324000-5.
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, 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 1 000 000 GBP.
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:
(ii) not to award any contract/framework agreement as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice or to cancel the procurement at any stage; and
(iii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition and in no circumstances will the authority be liable for any costs incurred by economic operators or candidates. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly at the sole risk of the economic operator or candidate participating in this procurement process. This project will be used to progress the Government’s wider social, economic and environmental objectives no business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement or contract indeed there is no guarantee that any framework agreement or contract will be put in place in relation to this notice. No compensation, etc. will be paid if a contract or framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Economic operators should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.
This procurement is governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and provides for economic operators who have suffered, or who risk suffering, loss, or damage, as a consequence of an alleged breach of the duty owed in accordance with Regulation 91 to start proceedings in the High Court. A standstill period will commence at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide 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. Any proceedings relating to any perceived non-compliance with the relevant law must be started within 30 days, beginning with the date when the economic operator first knew, or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen (a court may extend the time limit to 3 months, where the court considers that there is a good reason for doing so).


Award value: 800000