Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-08-27
Buyer: Environment Agency
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 66171000 | 71244000 | 71300000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 80000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Environment Agency sought the provision of support services to help deliver its programme of capital investment and improvement works for flood defence assets (both fixed and active), as well as wider business requirements, in a way that delivers sustainable, best value outcomes. The client support framework consists of 2 lots:
The Environment Agency sought the provision of support services to help deliver its programme of capital investment and improvement works for flood defence assets (both fixed and active), as well as wider business requirements, in a way that delivers sustainable, best value outcomes.
Lot 1 provides technical delivery support to the Environment Agency and to other public sector bodies (as listed under section VI.3 additional information), across a range of services that may include (but are not limited to):
— assessment service (NEAS) environmental project managers (Environmental Assurance and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), landscape architects, archaeology),
— independent technical assurance and advice: engineering; economics; sustainability and environmental; mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation (MEICA) and reliability engineering; low carbon designs; asset management general consultancy support; assessment of asset reliability, and reliability engineering; support for strategic spatial planning and infrastructure work, statutory planning response work and permitting),
The framework itself is not subject to European Union funding, but it is possible that some services called-off under the arrangement may receive European Union funding.
The Environment Agency sought the provision of support services to help deliver its programme of capital investment and improvement works for flood defence assets (both fixed and active), as well as wider business requirements, in a way that delivers sustainable, best value outcomes.
Lot 2 provides contract, cost and carbon management support to the Environment Agency and to other public sector bodies (as listed under section VI.3 additional information), across a range of services that may include (but are not limited to):
— integrated cost and carbon target setting, forecasting, actuals, assurance and reporting, estimating, modelling and benchmarking using a full suite of top-down and bottom-up approaches,
— cost and price investigation and supplier bid assurance in collaborative, single-source commercial environments,
— project controls (including gathering, analysing, monitoring, reporting and managing costs on an on-going basis),
— data and digital assurance (develop our approach to digital technology and modelling to support EA decision making and assurance activities),
— data analysis and reporting (deriving new knowledge from data, detailed analysis of a range of data including information that may sit outside of the EA, including business intelligence (BI) tools and approaches and associated programming capability),
— other cost, contract and carbon management activities/services as required to support delivery programmes,
The framework itself is not subject to European Union funding, but it is possible that some services called-off under the arrangement may receive European Union funding.


Winner: Capita Black and Veatch Consortium
Award value: 80000000
Number of bids: 6