Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-02-13
Buyer: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45213000: Construction work for commercial buildings | 45234000 | 45234100
Estimated value: 7000000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-03-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Network Rail is carrying out a procurement exercise to establish a framework for the management and delivery of multi-disciplinary works across Anglia, Southeast and Wessex routes. The framework is intended to cover works to all categories of railway assets including enhancements and renewals comprising: building & civils, electrification, power, signaling, telecommunications and track works. The scope of the frameworks will also include design works.
These works will be undertaken primarily on Anglia, Southeast and Wessex routes, however, the framework will be available for use by other Network Rail regions across the UK Rail Network.
Network Rail will appoint three framework providers and is restricting the number of Routes a tenderer may be awarded to a maximum of one to ensure it maintains operational security.
Management and delivery of multi-disciplinary works through a framework agreement covering all categories of railway assets including both enhancements and renewals and comprising: building & civils, electrification, power, signaling, telecommunications and track works.
As stated in Section II.2.7, each framework will have an initial duration of 5 years with a right for Network Rail to extend for up to 3 years (3 x 12 month periods).
The initial period will cover works envisaged to take place from Year 1 onwards of Control Period 6 (CP6) and therefore from April 2019 - 2024. The options to extend for Years 1, 2 and 3 of Control Period 7 (CP7) will be subject to funding approval at the time.
The initial duration of the frameworks will be 5 years with an option for Network Rail to extend the term of each framework by 12 month periods on up to three occasions (subject to a maximum total extension of the initial term of three years).
Applicants are referred to the procurement documents for further information on Network Rail's criteria for selecting applicants to be invited to tender; pre-qualification will take place in two stages:
Network Rail intends to select nine (9) applicants to the invitation to tender stage, provided each applicant satisfies the pre-qualification requirements (including minimum scoring thresholds set out in the pre-qualification instructions).
Applicants are referred to the procurement documents for information about Network Rail's rules and criteria for participation.
The main financing conditions, payment mechanism, performance standards and incentive mechanism are described in the procurement documents.
The draft procurement documents are available via our electronic procurement system (BravoNR) and tender documents will be updated prior to the formal issue of the invitation to tender.
The form of the contract governing these arrangements will be based on an amended version of the New Engineering Contract (NEC3).
Network Rail will accept pre-qualification and tender submissions from single entities or consortia. Network Rail does not require those consortia who intend to form a single legal entity to do so at the pre-qualification stage. If consortia members change at any point during the procurement process, Network Rail reserves the right to revisit the pre-qualification stages to consider the impact of the updated information.
Network Rail will consider contracting with a consortium, providing always that the participants in any consortium are jointly and severally liable for all of the obligations of the contractor, under the contract.


Award value: 7000000000