Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-20
Buyer: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71310000 | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71313420 | 71313430 | 71315210
Estimated value: 5650000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-12-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEPH) Engineering Designer with Specialist Sustainability/Net Zero Carbon and Digital Design Services
The Trust's Hospitals of the future project was included within Phase 1 of the UK Government's flagship Health Infrastructure Plan (‘HIP’) and will be among one of the first projects to be delivered. The Trust is proposing a major redevelopment of the Leeds General Infirmary hospital site to create modern, state of the art healthcare facilities that will expand the Trust's world-class healthcare services. The new healthcare facilities will include a new children’s hospital, alongside a new adult hospital that will include a new maternity centre and other acute, ambulatory and clinical support services. The Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced and innovative healthcare focused design team, including an experienced MEPH engineering designer who shall also provide sustainability/net zero carbon and digital design services and who shall ultimately be novated to a contractor. This procurement is also seeking the same services from a Trust retained due diligence/technical advisor role.
Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEPH) Engineering Designer with Specialist Sustainability/Net Zero Carbon and Digital Design Services
The Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced and innovative mechanical, electrical and public health engineering designer with specialist sustainability/net zero carbon and digital design services. The appointed consultant shall act as the lead designer with reference to the specified services. Alongside other members of the design team, the consultant shall be employed directly by the Trust to develop a coordinated RIBA Stage 2 design solution prior to being novated to a contractor at approximately the conclusion to RIBA Stage 2 who shall then be responsible for the production of design/construction information and providing required services through to handover and including, where appropriate, during the Use Stage. The consultant shall be responsible for the delivery of a coordinated design solution to meet the requirements of the Trust’s design brief. Specialist design services will be provided in relation to sustainability and net zero carbon design and digital design (digital hospital design). It is expected, in accordance with the scope of services that the consultant shall also be required from time-to-time in the development of the design solution to prepare technical scopes of service and appoint other specialist consultants or survey companies.
The designer is expected to bring innovation and led the development of a design solution to meet a challenging sustainability and net zero carbon agenda as well as supporting the Trust to meet UK Government ambition to establish digital hospitals and to maximise opportunities from Designing for Manufacture and Assembly (‘DfMA’) and Modern Methods of Construction (‘MMC’) whilst further complimenting the healthcare solution. The digital design services role is expected to develop a practical design response to the Trust’s digital design brief and support the Trust in responding to the UK Government’s vision for the creation of digital hospitals across key themes that include:
The Trust reserves the right not to award a contract or to award a contract for part only of the opportunity in this contract notice at its discretion. The Trust has no liability in respect of any costs or time incurred by organisations in expressing an interest in or bidding for this opportunity.
Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health Engineering Client Due Diligence/Technical Advisor with specialist Sustainability/Net Zero Carbon and Digital Services
Through this procurement process, the Trust is seeking to appoint a Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (‘MEPH’) due diligence and technical advisor who shall also provide specialist technical advice in relation to sustainability and net zero carbon as well as digital hospital design. The consultant shall be retained as the Trust’s technical adviser throughout the design and construction stages (i.e. who shall not be novated to a contractor) to provide specialist design advice in the review and assurance of design information produced by the design and contractor teams. It is expected that the technical adviser role shall support the Trust in the review of all drawings, specifications and technical design information throughout all RIBA Stages and advise the Trust on the extent to which the design solution has met the brief and identify opportunities for further development and refinement.
During the construction stage the due diligence/technical adviser will be responsible for assessing the contractor’s outputs and ensuring compliance with the brief and that the contractor is achieving the necessary targets associated with the targeted accreditations. A critical role will be undertaken by the due diligence/technical adviser during the commissioning/handover and use stages as the due diligence adviser will need to support, for a limited period of time, the ad-hoc monitoring of the building ‘in Use’ against key performance indicators and targets.
The Trust reserves the right not to award a contract or to award a contract for part only of the opportunity in this contract notice at its discretion. The Trust has no liability in respect of any costs or time incurred by organisations in expressing an interest in or bidding for this opportunity.
The contract will contain in particular obligations relating to the achievement of environmental, economic or social objectives.
Bidders should note that the procurement documents (including the Invitation to Tender) are draft documents at this stage, providing indicative information of the Trust's intended approach in the procurement process and are for general information only. The Trust reserves the right to vary, amend and update any aspects of the procurement documents and final details and versions of the procurement documents will be confirmed to applicants successful in being selected to participate in the relevant tender stages of the procurement procedure.
Completed selection questionnaires will be submitted via the Procontract Due North procurement portal (address given in section I.3) but the technical documents will be made available on a separate data room. In order to participate, interested organisations should email leedsth-tr.btlw@nhs.net with details of their organisation and requesting access to the documents, with names and email addresses of the individuals who need to be given access to the data room. This email address can also be found by following the link supplied at section I.3). The Trust will arrange for the interested organisation to be provided with details for accessing the data room for the procurement documents. Interested organisations must also register as a supplier via the Procontract Due North portal (via the address set out at section I.3) in order to receive information on clarifications and queries and to submit a request to participate. Interested organisations can locate this opportunity via the search function within the portal.
Requests to participate must be by way of completion and return of the standard selection questionnaire (in accordance with the requirements set out in the standard selection questionnaire) via the Procontract portal by the date and time specified in section IV.2.2). Please download the Word version of the selection questionnaire from the data room and complete this, and upload a PDF copy to the Procontract portal. Please note, all clarification questions should be submitted through the portal and all responses and any additional information will be provided through the portal. Interested organisations are responsible for ensuring that they check the portal regularly for updates and further information.
The Trust reserves the right not to accept requests to participate that are received after the deadline. Bidders are encouraged to submit their submissions well in advance of the stated date and time in order to avoid issues such as technical difficulties with the electronic system that may be due to the high volumes of traffic attempting to submit applications on the same date at the same time.

Eligibility requirements: As set out in the selection questionnaire.

Award value: 5650000