Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-12
Buyer: Thames Tideway Tunnel
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 48612000: Database-management system | 75100000 | 75200000 | 79421000 | 79512000
Estimated value: 1000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-09-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: a) Management of project free-phone helpline for customers who have any questions in relation to Thames Tideway Tunnel Project; and
b) Management and provision of secretariat support in the delivery of Tideway's Community Liaison Working Groups.
Further information on the scope of the Contract and the procurement is included in the PQP and accompanying Procurement Documents.
Applicants are referred to the PQP and Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) for information on Tideway's criteria for choosing Applicants to be invited to tender for the Contract. Tideway expects to selects the top 5 Applicants to tender for the Contract. Tideway reserves the right in its absolute discretion to invite fewer than five Applicants on the basis described in the PQP.
Applicants should be aware that Tideway reserves the right to extend the term of the Contract by a period of up to 24 months making a maximum aggregate contract period of 60 months. Further, Applicant's should also be aware that Tideway reserves the right to omit and/or vary the scope of the Contract and/or require optional scope to be performed. Further information is included within the PQP.
Applicants are referred to the PQP and PQQ for information about Tideway's objective rules and criteria for participation in the Contract.
Tideway reserves the right to require guarantees, bonds, collateral warranties (potentially including the grant of step-in rights) and other forms of security as appropriate to be specified in the Procurement Documents to be made available at ITT stage. Applicants are referred to the PQP for relevant information available at this Contract Notice stage.
The main financing conditions, payment mechanism and performance standards will be described in the Procurement Documents to be made available at ITT stage.
Tideway will accept expressions of interest and tenders from single entities or Consortia. Tideway does not require those Consortia who intend to form a single legal entity to do so at the PQQ stage. Tideway will consider contracting with a Consortium, providing always that the participants in any Consortium are jointly and severally liable for all of the obligations of the Contractor under the Contract.
1) Terms in this Contract Notice with initial capital letters have the meanings given in PQP Section 1.3 (Glossary).
2) To express interest in the Contract, Applicants must register and complete the PQQ on the Tideway portal: https://thamestidewaytunnel.bravosolution.co.uk by the deadline for PQQs stated in the PQP. The PQQ Deadline is a precise time and Applicants must allow sufficient time to upload the PQQ.
3) Section I (Contracting entity): The contracting entity is Bazalgette Tunnel Limited (‘Tideway’), the organisation responsible for delivering the Thames Tideway Tunnel. Additional information relating to this Contract Notice is available in the Procurement Documents. Further information on Tideway and the Thames Tideway Tunnel is available at www.tideway.london
4) Section II.2.6) (Estimated value): The estimated value has been estimated on the basis of the assumptions set out in the PQP. See further PQP section 3.6.
5) Section II.2.7) (Duration of the Contract): time-scales in this Contract Notice are estimated based on the current Tideway programme but may be subject to change.
6) Section IV (Procedure): Tideway is not a utility for the purpose of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (‘UCR 2016’) and accordingly the UCR 2016 do not apply to this procurement. However Tideway is required pursuant to the procurement regime in The Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure Projects) (English Undertakers) Regulations 2013 (‘SIP Regulations’) to tender certain contracts and certain categories of contracts in accordance with a modified regime set out in the SIP Regulations as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendments, Repeals and Revocations) Regulations 2016 (‘modified UCR 2016’). The procurement requirements set out in the modified UCR 2016 are broadly similar to the UCR 2016 save that certain procedures, exclusions and exemptions have been removed and Part 5 of UCR 2016 (Remedies) has been modified so that a different remedies regime applies to Tideway. Additional information in relation to the modified UCR 2016 is available at: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/cy/uksi/2016/275/schedule/2/paragraph/48/made


Award value: 1000000