Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-03-22
Buyer: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
CPV classification: 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45210000: Building construction work
Estimated value: 5000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The project incorporates the expansion of both the office and housing capacity of the UK Embassy in Kathmandu Nepal with strategic improvements to the Embassy estate.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development are both Key stake holders for this development. Both entities form part of the UK Government and are therefore governed by UK and European procurement policies. They are seeking an experienced contractor to take this opportunity through construction to completion.
The UK Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal comprises circa 8 acres in the centre of Kathmandu containing a mixture of residential and office facilities. The embassy facilities and functions will remain operational throughout the construction period.
The project consists of the creation of additional office and residential premises within the existing embassy boundaries. The offices additional office space will be created via the refurbishment and extension of the existing Chancery building alongside a new single storey office building. The residential accommodation will consist of two, two storey, three bedroom detached houses.
The site wide improvements will include the re-provision of a multi-use games area, the refurbishment of the pool house, the re-location of the emergency stores and site wide improvements to surface finishes, parking provisions and landscaping.
— The provision of additional Office Space to accommodate the re-location of DFID staff from their existing offices in Kathmandu;
— Improvements to the character of the Embassy grounds and setting as a green haven in the centre of the city;
— Seismically retrofitting the existing Chancery office buildings to ensure that they withstand future earthquakes;
— The provision of high quality (to international standards of design and construction) buildings that take advantage of the best of locally available skills and materials;
— Where appropriate adhere to British/FCO Standards and UK Building Regulations for construction and design.
This project is a major construction project in the heart of the UK Embassy which will remain operational throughout the construction period. The project is being designed to adhere to UK and FCO standards.
The FCO are inviting interested parties to attend a supplier briefing to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal week commencing 18.4.2016. We will also be conducting a UK based Supplier day in late April.
Nepal individual Contractor Q&A sessions — Throughout Tuesday 19th April times and location to be confirmed.
UK presentation and Q&A sessions — 27th and 28th April, times and location to be confirmed to contractors once expressions of interest made.
This market sounding exercise is intended to alert potential organisations to the upcoming procurement opportunity and to test the suitability of the FCO proposition and the anticipated procurement process with the market.