Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-09-18
Buyer: FE Colleges comprising Belfast Metropolitan College, Northern Regional College, North West Regional College, South Eastern Regional College, Southern Regional College and South West College.
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71220000 | 71242000 | 71248000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 2800000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-10-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The ICT framework will support the 6 Regional FE Colleges in the delivery of minor works projects. 3 regional single operator framework agreements will be established to take forward the delivery of minor works projects (up to GBP 500 000) using an established NEC4 measured term framework. The 3 regions are:
The ICT framework will support the 6 regional FE Colleges in the delivery of minor works projects. 3 regional single operator framework agreements will be established to take forward the delivery of minor works projects (up to GBP 500 000) using an established NEC4 measured term framework. The 3 regions are:
It is envisaged that the 5 economic operators for lots 1-3 that satisfy: the completeness and compliance checks; the criteria for the rejection of economic operators; the information as to economic and financial standing; and who achieve the highest scores in the technical or professional ability evaluation process may be short-listed and invited to submit tenders. Where there is a tie for fifth place, then all economic operators in fifth place will be invited to tender. For the purpose of this exercise a tie for fifth place is deemed to occur where two or more economic operators have identical scores or a score within 1 mark (out of a score of 100) of the fifth place score.
Economic operators will be subject to performance monitoring and may be suspended from being able to participate in the framework agreement or may be terminated from the framework agreement.
The ICT framework will support the 6 regional FE Colleges in the delivery of minor works projects. 3 regional single operator framework agreements will be established to take forward the delivery of minor works projects (up to GBP 500 000) using an established NEC4 measured term framework. The 3 regions are:
It is envisaged that the 5 economic operators for lots 1-3 that satisfy: the completeness and compliance checks; the criteria for the rejection of economic operators; the information as to economic and financial standing; and who achieve the highest scores in the technical or professional ability evaluation process may be short-listed and invited to submit tenders. Where there is a tie for fifth place, then all economic operators in fifth place will be invited to tender. For the purpose of this exercise a tie for fifth place is deemed to occur where two or more economic operators have identical scores or a score within 1 mark (out of a score of 100) of the fifth place score.
Economic operators will be subject to performance monitoring and may be suspended from being able to participate in the framework agreement or may be terminated from the framework agreement.
The ICT framework will support the 6 regional FE Colleges in the delivery of minor works projects. 3 regional single operator framework agreements will be established to take forward the delivery of minor works projects (up to GBP 500 000) using an established NEC4 measured term framework. The 3 regions are:
It is envisaged that the 5 economic operators for lots 1-3 that satisfy: the completeness and compliance checks; the criteria for the rejection of economic operators; the information as to economic and financial standing; and who achieve the highest scores in the technical or professional ability evaluation process may be short-listed and invited to submit tenders. Where there is a tie for fith place, then all economic operators in fifth place will be invited to tender. For the purpose of this exercise a tie for fith place is deemed to occur where two or more economic operators have identical scores or a score within 1 mark (out of a score of 100) of the fith place score.
Economic operators will be subject to performance monitoring and may be suspended from being able to participate in the framework agreement or may be terminated from the framework agreement.
The economic operators’ performance on this contract will be regularly monitored. As part of its contract management procedures, the contracting authority will use the protocol for managing poor supplier performance contained in Procurement Guidance Note PGN 01/12 – Contract management principles and procedures: https://www.financeni.gov.uk/publications/procurement-guidance-note-0112-contract-management-principles-and-procedures. If an economic operator has received more than one current notice of written warning or a notice of unsatisfactory performance, the contracting authority, at its. discretion, can consider an economic operator’s exclusion from future procurements, being undertaken on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively A list of bodies subject to Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy can be viewed at: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/listpublicbodies-whichnipublicprocurement-policy-applies.
CPD in its capacity as a Central Purchasing Body, is administering this procurement on behalf of the contracting authorities. 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 the 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 process the Government’s wider social, economic and environmental objectives. No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting contract or framework agreement, indeed there is no guarantee that any contract or framework agreement 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 of information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. The notification will provide information on the award decision. The standstill period which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides times 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).

Eligibility requirements: Refer to the PQQ documents.

Award value: 2800000