Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-04
Buyer: Department of Education
Country: UK
Region: West and South of Northern Ireland
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45210000: Building construction work | 45214000: Construction work for education buildings
Estimated value: 100000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-12-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Contracting Authority is delivering the Strule Shared Education Campus. SSEC. . This is a landmark project providing a bespoke state of the art facility to deliver post-primary school education in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The SSEC involves the relocation of 5 post-primary schools and Arvalee School and Resource Centre onto a purpose built campus with shared facilities. Arvalee School and Resource Centre was opened in September 2016. This contract will deliver the rest of campus including school buildings, shared education and sports facilities and all other associated campus infrastructure on a c.120 acre site. The contract will be used to deliver the Government's wider Social, Economic and Environmental objectives including opportunities in line with the Government's Buy Social policies. See: http://www.buysocialni.org/ . A programme of community and stakeholder engagement will also be delivered through the contract. Refer to MoI Part B for a full description of the project.
See MOI Part A 1.6.1 which states: Where there is a tie for 5th place, then all Economic Operators in 5th place will be invited to tender. For the purposes of this exercise a tie for 5th 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 5th place score.
Conditions for participation in this procurement are set out in the pre-qualification documents. Economic operators interested in the provision of the Works will be required to complete a pre qualification questionnaire which is available from the electronic portal.
The economic operators' performance on this contract will be regularly monitored.. . If an economic operator fails to reach satisfactory levels of performance the economic operator may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance.. . The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the economic operator being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Contracting Authorities on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate. A list of these bodies can be viewed at:. . https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/list-public-bodies-which-ni-public-procurement-policy-applies.
CPD is assisting the CA in conducting the procurement process for this requirement, but for the avoidance of doubt, the contract will be entered into by the CA and the successful tenderer(s) and CPD is acting as a central purchasing body. . The Authority expressly reserves the rights:. . (I). not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice or to cancel the procurement at any stage;. (II). to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition;. (III). to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and. (IV). to award contract(s) in stages.. . and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly at risk of the company participating in this procurement process.. . This project will be used to progress the Government's wider social, economic and environmental objectives.
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 information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time 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: Conditions for participation in this procurement are set out in the pre-qualification documents. Economic operators interested in the provision of the Works will be required to complete a pre qualification questionnaire which is available from the electronic portal.

Award value: 100000000