Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-04-08
Buyer: Longhurst Group Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 09331000: Solar panels | 09332000: Solar installation | 45331100 | 50000000 | 50700000
Estimated value: 38875837.9 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Longhurst Group sought expressions of interest from suitably experienced and qualified service providers to undertake domestic and commercial gas heating works to its housing stock portfolio, comprising servicing, repair and breakdown and planned installation/replacement works. The TPC 2005 (as amended) will run for a maximum of 10 years: an initial 5 years with the option to extend by up to 5 further years. The works were procured under a restricted procurement procedure in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Bidders were required to complete a Selection Questionnaire under stage 1 of the process. The Longhurst Group evaluated submitted SQs and anticipated short listing a maximum of 5 suppliers who will be Invited to Tender but reserved the right to increase or decrease this number by 1 or 2 if scores were closely placed around the cut-off point. Full details of this opportunity were included in the procurement documents.
The Longhurst Group sought expressions of interest from suitably experienced and qualified service providers to undertake domestic and commercial gas heating works to its housing stock portfolio. The works will comprise servicing, repair and breakdown and planned installation/replacement works and will be delivered under a TPC 2005 (as amended). The Contract will run for a maximum of 10 years: it will run for an initial 5 years with the option to extend by up to 5 further years.
The works were procured under a restricted procurement procedure in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Prospective Service Providers were required to complete a Selection Questionnaire under the first stage of this process. The Longhurst Group evaluated submitted SQs and anticipated short listing a maximum of 5 suppliers to be Invited to Tender. The Longhurst Group reserved the right to increase or decrease this number by 1 or 2 if scores were closely placed around the cut-off point. Full details of the requirements, evaluation criteria and all other information pertaining to this opportunity were included in the procurement documents issued to the market with the Contract Notice.
The contract will run for an initial period of 5 years with the option to extend by up to a further 5 years as set out in the contract documents.
All criteria and exclusion grounds used to short-list candidates to be invited to tender were set out in the tender documents, which were available to download from the EU Supply portal.
The contracting authority reserved the right to cancel the procurement and not to proceed with the long term Contract at any stage of the procurement process. The contracting authority also reserved the right not to award a contract. Neither the contracting authority nor any person on whose behalf of whom this procurement is undertaken is to be liable for any costs incurred by those who expressed an interest or tendered for this contract.
The Longhurst Group observed a standstill period following the award of the Contract in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended).


Winner: Mears Limited
Award value: 38875837.9
Number of bids: 4