Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-03-22
Buyer: Infrastructure and Projects Authority (the Authority)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71311200 | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 71530000: Construction consultancy services | 71541000: Construction project management services | 71600000
Estimated value: 1600000 
Award criteria: Quality, Price

Technical requirements: Quality
Price
The Authority sought to set up a Framework Agreement to offer this service to departments (including arm's length bodies), local government and internationally through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
The Infrastructure and Projects Authority, formed on 1 January 2016, brings together Infrastructure UK (IUK) and the Major Projects Authority (MPA). The Framework Agreement is a true collaboration of the best professionals to bring a quality service to improve the delivery of projects and programmes both in the UK and internationally. The Authority looked for partners through the Framework to contribute to expanding the scope and application of the tool with the emphasis being on improved outcomes. The Authority's role will be to oversee the use and support directly where there are projects and HM Government priorities. The structure and award mechanism of the Framework Agreement and commercial model underpinning it should incentive Suppliers on the Framework Agreement to grow and develop the tool in order to maximise opportunities for implementation.
The Authority brings together expertise in infrastructure and the financing, delivery and assurance of major projects as a single unit, reporting to the Chancellor and the Minister for the Cabinet Office it supports infrastructure and project development and delivery across the whole of Government.
This Framework Agreement will be accessible for use by all UK Central Government Departments and their Arm's Length Bodies and agencies; Non-Ministerial Departments and Executive Agencies; and the Wider Public Sector (and any future successors to these organisations). As at the publication of the Contract Notice 2016/S 202-366007 the latest list of these Contracting Authorities could be found in the Office for National Statistics' Public Sector Classification Guide — September 2016 (see the ‘Central Government’ worksheet in the ‘Public Sector Classification Guide — September 2016’ spreadsheet found at:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/datasets/publicsectorclassificationguide
Entities which are not public sector bodies may also use the Framework Agreements if the Authority is satisfied that:
— such entity is Call Off Agreement Services directly, solely and exclusively in order to satisfy contractual obligations to 1 or more public sector bodies, all of which are entitled to use the Framework Agreements on their own account;
— it will pass the benefit of the Call Off contract to such public sector body(ies) directly, in full and on a purely ‘pass-through’ basis. Accordingly there must be no mark-up, management fee, service charge or any similar cost solely in relation to the supply of energy imposed on the relevant public sector body(ies), who must be able to benefit from the terms of the Framework Agreements in a like manner and to the same extent as if using the Framework Agreements on its/their own account.
This Framework Agreement will also be accessible for use by any corporation established, or a group of individuals appointed to act together, for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, not having an industrial or commercial character, and
(i) financed wholly or mainly by another Contracting Authority listed above in this section VI.3) of Contract Notice 2016/S 202-366007;
(ii) subject to management supervision by another Contracting Authority listed above in this section VI.3) of Contract Notice 2016/S 202-366007; or
(iii) more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, are appointed by another Contracting Authority listed above in section VI.3) of Contract Notice 2016/S 202-366007;(iv) an association of or formed by one or more of the Contracting Authorities listed above in section VI.3) of Contract Notice 2016/S 202-366007.


Number of bids: 1