Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-12-20
Buyer: Translink
Country: UK
Region: Northern Ireland
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 5000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The following is provided in good faith and is intended only as a preliminary background explanation to the Translink Group's requirement it does not purport to be all inclusive. Northern Ireland Railways wish to establish a Framework of Economic Operators to provide Civil and Structural Design services to the NIR Railway network. This framework will run for a 4-year period (subject to break clauses). The estimated spend for this Framework over 4 years is in the region of 5 000 000 GBP. The anticipated contract start date is March 2016. Dates may be subject to change. The Translink Group reserve the right to accept part of any Tender from 1 or any number of Tenderers and may change the contracting strategy at any time. Once you have selected the action to ‘Express Interest’ you should view the CFT documents, then once you have completed your PQQ click on the ‘tender’ option in the menu and follow the instructions.
Northern Ireland Railways wish to establish a Framework of Economic Operators to provide Civil and Structural Design services to the NIR Railway network.
The Civil Engineering Professional Services Framework will cover Civil and Structural disciplines but may also be used by other disciplines within Translink such as Permanent Way, Signaling and Telecoms, Network Engineering and Property as required to support the Economic Operators requirements.
Northern Ireland Railways wish to establish a Framework of Economic Operators to provide Civil and Structural Design services to the NIR Railway network.
The Civil Engineering Professional Services Framework will cover Civil and Structural disciplines but may also be used by other disciplines within Translink such as Permanent Way, Signaling and Telecoms, Network Engineering and Property as required to support the Economic Operators requirements.
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Note: Do not leave completing your PQQ/ITT response until the last minute, late responses shall be rejected. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any contract as a result of this competition.
Throughout the documentation, both ‘Translink’ and ‘Group’ refer to the same corporate entities. Both shall be taken to comprise the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (NITHC) in addition to its main operating subsidiaries Citybus Ltd, Northern Ireland Railways Company Ltd and Ulsterbus Ltd.
The Translink Group will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2006 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).


Award value: 5000000
Number of bids: 4