Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-18
Buyer: Lancashire County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311210 | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71315200
Estimated value: 15600000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-01-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Lancashire County Council intends to enter into a two-provider agreement for the provision of professional and technical services. The framework agreement will be for 3 years with the option to extend for one further year. The agreement will deliver services in the following professional disciplines:
• traffic modelling, transport planning services, intelligent transport systems and new mobility solutions;
The framework agreement will provide additional ‘top up’ services to the Council's in-house design, asset and local network teams to assist the delivery of professional/technical input to the services listed above.
Lancashire County Council intends to enter into a two-provider agreement for the provision of professional and technical services. The framework agreement will be for 3 years with the option to extend for one further year. The agreement will deliver services in the following professional disciplines:
• traffic modelling, transport planning services, intelligent transport systems and new mobility solutions;
The framework agreement will provide additional ‘top up’ services to the Council's in-house design, asset and local network teams to assist the delivery of professional/technical input to the services listed above.
The framework agreement will establish a threshold value whereby all packages of work under that threshold will be offered to the highest scoring tenderer throughout the term of the agreement. Packages of work above the threshold value will be subject to mini-competition between the two providers awarded onto the framework. Please view the tender documentation for further information regarding the operation of the framework.
The initial term of the framework agreement is 3 years (36 months), with the option to extend by any number of defined periods provided always that the total maximum duration of the framework agreement does not exceed 4 years (48 months).
The invitation to tender documents are available on Lancashire County Council's electronic tendering site. https:// www.lancashire.gov.uk/iSupplier/
Registration is necessary in order to view the invitation to Tender documentation. Use of this system does not require high specification IT equipment or connections, nor high level personal IT skills/capabilities. Access to the system/software is free of charge. Tenderers are advised to allow time for registration and to do this as early as possible during the invitation to tender period.
Please see https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/business/tenders-and-procurement/tenders/ for further information.
This competitive procurement is undertaken in accordance with Lancashire County Council's Contract Standing Orders. The Council will operate a standstill period of not less than 10 calendar days between notifying bidders of its intention to award the framework agreement and the award of the framework agreement.


Award value: 15600000