Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-10
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 50200000 | 63712300 | 71000000 | 71200000 | 71242000
Estimated value: 242000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-08-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Highways England is the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England's motorways and major A roads. We are delivering the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), a new high-quality dual carriageway connecting Kent, Thurrock and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames. This is the most ambitious roads project in the UK for more than a generation. The project will be transformational for the UK economy, while offering new connections, better journeys and fewer delays.
This contract notice is being issued to appoint an integration partner to support Highways England with the delivery of the LTC project.
The Lower Thames Crossing project involves three main works packages and therefore comprises a set of contract interfaces materially higher than other Highways England projects. We require a significant integration role to successfully deliver the project and to manage a complex supply chain.
Highways England are seeking an integration partner to support us in managing contract interfaces. The integration partner will provide a broad range of project and programme management services to support our project and contract leadership teams, establishing and running the day to day management processes. As a member of an integrated client team the integration partner will provide high quality data analysis and experience-based decision making.
There will be a core eight-year period during which work can be instructed, with a subsequent optional extension period of 1 year +1 year instructed during the core period, which may include providing support to Highways England operations directorate during initial operation of the Lower Thames Crossing.
The cost estimate of GBP 242 000 000 is the expected value of the contract and includes the following:
3) Optional contract extension (1 + 1) which Highways England may instruct to support the initial operation of Lower Thames Crossing;
Please note that only item 1 above will be priced as part of the tender return. Based on estimates, the authority expects the total amount (as stated in the summary price table of the IFT) to be in the range of GBP 150 000 000 to GBP 175 000 000.
The contract will be based on an amended NEC4 Professional Services Contract (January 2019), and the services under the contract will be instructed in six phases, a mobilisation phase and five delivery phases. During the mobilisation phase, project information systems will be provided by the consultant, and service plans developed and approved for the following five phases.
Systems and processes: these are the systems and processes that will underpin the project delivery and are made up of Highways England mandated systems and integration partner specific systems which when combined and configured will create a project information system along with hardware and network connectivity requirements.
Core services: these are services that will be required for the length of the contract term and will apply to all five phases. Examples of these include:
Phase specific services: these are services that will be subject to change through each of the five phases, such as:
A parent company guarantee or other security may be required if the applicant does not satisfy Highways England’s economic and financial standing requirements. Please see tender documents for details.
The contracting authority will use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise. Information on how to take part in this tender is detailed below:
— click the 'PQQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers' link. (These are pre-qualification questionnaires or invitations to tender open to any registered supplier);

Eligibility requirements: Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents.

Award value: 242000000