Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-12-23
Buyer: University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK
Region: Tyneside
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45100000: Site preparation work | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45300000 | 45400000
Estimated value: 70000 GBP
Award criteria: Contractor delivery team, Stage 2 proposals, Delivery methodology, Approach to BIM, General cost items, OH&P, PCSA

Technical requirements: Contractor delivery team
Stage 2 proposals
Delivery methodology
Approach to BIM
General cost items
OH&P
PCSA
The University is a lead partner in the Newcastle Science City initiative which promotes Newcastle as a city of science across the world. The 24-acre site will become an exemplar in sustainable urban development, attracting leading edge science and technology organisations to a mixed new community which will encompass a variety of educational, business, residential and leisure uses.
Enabling, infrastructure and public realm works were completed in 2014 to make the site development ready and the 1st buildings, The Core and The Key, are now open. Construction works for the Urban Sciences Building has begun and is expected to open at the beginning of the academic year in September 2017.
The next building to follow the Urban Sciences Building is the Learning and Teaching Centre (LTC) (formerly known as the Conference and Learning Centre). The LTC (and adjacent infrastructure works for the Science Central LLP) is proposed to be located at Science Central which is developed by a civic partnership between Newcastle City Council and Newcastle University.
The proposed location is part of the strategic decision to co-locate all of the Business School's undergraduate teaching (excluding service teaching to non-Business School students) at Science Central. This will sit alongside and have physical connections into the new Urban Sciences Building scheduled to open in September 2017.
This tender was for the recruitment of a main contractor for this scheme, with the contractor being appointed on a 2-stage basis. A Pre-Construction Services Agreement will be entered into to cover the 2nd stage period where the main contractor will be required to work with the Client and Design Team to finalise the design and procure the work packages, with the works being carried out and completed under NEC3 Option A (April 2013 Edition).
The University has appointed the main contractor on behalf of Newcastle Science Central LLP and looking to commence construction works on site by 18.9.2017 (following 2nd stage tender period) with completion and handover of the building by 28.6.2019.
Similar to previous University capital projects, the ‘Golden Brick’ structure on this project has been selected for tax planning and efficiency reasons.
The structure requires Newcastle Science Central LLP (LLP) (a joint venture between Newcastle City Council and the University), the current owner of the site to initially appoint a building contractor under a form of NEC Contract. The contractor will progress the works to ground floor slab level (Golden Brick) at which point the NEC Contract (and associated documents such as guarantees and bonds) will be transferred from the LLP to the University.


Winner: Newcastle Science Central LLP
Number of bids: 6