Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-24
Buyer: Environment Agency
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 44000000 | 45000000: Construction work | 50000000 | 51000000 | 71000000
Estimated value: 25000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Environment Agency works with people and communities across England to protect and improve the environment in an integrated way. We provide a vital incident response capability. As part of this role, the Agency needs to maintain its Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM), Navigation, and other sites and assets.
The Environment Agency is intending to select framework contractors to undertake the works detailed in the Specification for the Minor Works Framework across the South East of England — this incorporates the Agency's geographical areas of Herts and North London, West Thames, Solent and South Downs, and Kent and South London.
Suppliers for each lot will be required to service the whole of the Environment Agency's South East region for that Lot, covering the 4 geographical areas.
The Framework will be split into 4 distinct ‘Lots’, reflecting different areas of work. Suppliers are able to apply for any number of lots. Any suppliers applying for more than 1 lot must detail how they will be able to manage to cover simultaneously each lot applied for.
The framework's 4 distinct lots cover the types of services and works falling under the following categories:
1. River Maintenance and Vegetation Management including incident response at both 12-hours and 24-hours notice to support the Environment Agency,
2. Civil Construction, Maintenance, Design and Build including associated M&E and Early Supplier Engagement,
3. Design, Manufacture and Installation of Fabricated Steel, aluminium structures and other works and Maintenance,
Please note that under lot 2 (Civils works) 87 % of the works tendered under the current Minor Works Framework were of a value of 50 000 GBP or less. Therefore, whilst there may be some larger value works tendered under this lot, the majority of the works are anticipated to be of a similar value, and therefore the supplier profile we are targeting for this lot are those suppliers who are keen to undertake works valued at 50 000 GBP or less.
For lots 1, 3, and 4, more than 80 % of the works awarded under these lots were at a value of 25 000 GBP and under, and therefore the Environment Agency is, in the main, looking for suppliers who want to bid for and provide works of this value level.
The services are to be delivered primarily in South East England, to cover the Environment Agency Areas listed below. However, this does not preclude the service covering other Areas on an ad-hoc basis, or as otherwise required:
Use of this framework may also be offered to the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and to its associated bodies including any Agencies and non departmental public bodies. As such, any indicative volumes or estimated framework values may be subject to change.
The framework will be a multiple supplier framework with provision for the projects under each lot to be competitively tendered at individual project call off level.
It is envisaged that the framework will be awarded on the basis of the following number of suppliers:
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