Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-16
Buyer: Cumbria County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45100000: Site preparation work | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45300000
Estimated value: 120000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-08-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The framework is for the procurement of external contractors to deliver the Council’s capital works programme. The works are expected to include: highway maintenance and improvement schemes, schools and corporate property maintenance and improvement works, new build highways and property schemes, flood prevention schemes and economic development or regeneration schemes. A full description of the scope is given in section 3 scope.
Cumbria County Council’s Capital Programme for property provides maintenance, improvements, extensions and new build for Cumbria County Council’s property portfolio. At present the capital programme includes projects for schools, care-homes, offices and fire stations ranging from less than 100 000 GBP to over 10 000 000 GBP in value. The capital maintenance activity equates to over 5 000 000 — 10 000 000 GBP per annum. The low value sub-lot will generally include schemes of value between 50 000 GBP and 450 000 GBP but may on occasion be used to procure works below 50 000 GBP dependant on the complexity, risk and other considerations.
Framework tenders will be assessed in 2-stage process. A maximum of 15 applicants for sub-lots 1a and 2a and 12 applicants for sub-lots 1b and 2b will be then be taken forward for consideration in stage 2. Stage 2 responses will be scored and ranked and the highest scoring 10-12 applicants for sub-lots 1a and 2a and up to 8 applicants for 1b and 2b will be accepted onto each sub-lot.
Cumbria County Council’s Capital Programme for property provides maintenance, improvements, extensions and new build for Cumbria County Council’s property portfolio. At present the capital programme includes projects for schools, care-homes, offices and fire stations ranging from less than 100 000 GBP to over 10 000 000 GBP in value. The capital maintenance activity equates to over 5 000 000-10 000 000 GBP per annum. The high value sub-lot will include schemes of value between 350 000 GBP and 5 000 000 GBP but may on occasion be used to procure schemes above 5 000 000 GBP based on complexity, risk and other considerations.
Cumbria County Council’s capital programme for highways and civil engineering works provides for all aspects of the maintenance, repair and development of its highway asset.
— structures and bridges – repair and or maintenance of highways structures including retaining walls and bridges. Typical schemes are around 50 000 GBP to 250 000 GBP and include culvert replacement, masonry arch bridge repairs, replacement of sections of retaining wall and sea wall repairs. Structures are primarily stone or stone faced, reinforced or mass concrete or structural steelwork and are most often on carriageway local roads,
— public realm – improvements to town centre environments likely to involve highway surfacing, footpaths, drainage and improvements to signage. Works may also include improvements to the look and function of transport interchanges,
— highway improvement (including S278) — improvements to junctions, access roads, car parks and distributor routes to improve safety and or facilitate development,
— footpath/cycleway improvements – some of these schemes may be procured through other Council frameworks (e.g. small value surfacing framework) but larger schemes (circa 250 000 GBP — 1 000 000 GBP) may be let through this framework. Currently forecast schemes are linked to the local plan growth works in each of the district council areas,
— drainage, ground stabilisation and flood prevention schemes – schemes could include packages of several small drainage schemes or piling, slope stabilisation or slope protection schemes adjacent to highways. Schemes could also include a variety of flood prevention schemes.
Cumbria County Council’s capital programme for highways and civil engineering works provides for all aspects of the maintenance, repair and development of its highway asset.
— structures and bridges – repair and or maintenance of highways structures including retaining walls and bridges. Typical schemes are around 50 000 GBP to 250 000 GBP and include culvert replacement, masonry arch bridge repairs, replacement of sections of retaining wall and sea wall repairs. Structures are primarily stone or stone faced, reinforced or mass concrete or structural steelwork and are most often on carriageway local roads,
— public realm – improvements to town centre environments likely to involve highway surfacing, footpaths, drainage and improvements to signage. Works may also include improvements to the look and function of transport interchanges,
— highway improvement (including S278) — improvements to junctions, access roads, car parks and distributor routes to improve safety and or facilitate development,
— footpath/cycleway improvements – some of these schemes may be procured through other Council frameworks (e.g. small value surfacing framework) but larger schemes (circa 250 000 GBP — 1 000 000 GBP) may be let through this framework. Currently forecast schemes are linked to the local plan growth works in each of the district council areas,


Award value: 120000000