Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-06-07
Buyer: Department of Education
Country: UK
Region: West and South of Northern Ireland
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45112000 | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45220000
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-07-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This Contract is for the provision of site preparation works (“the Works”) for the Strule Shared Education Campus (SSEC), which will be delivered under a separate contract and consists of 5 schools, shared facilities, 13 playing pitches (natural and artificial turf) and an assortment of infrastructure and parking facilities. This Contract is in relation to the “SSEC Site Preparation Works‘’. These site preparation works will consist of, but are not limited to, the following key aspects: Civil/Geotechnical Engineering and Design: — Bulk earthworks soil improvement/stabilisation and reinforced earth retaining embankments; — Management and coordination of environmental consultancy for brownfield remediation; and — Management and coordination of environmental consultancy for ecological features. Civil Engineering Works: — Site clearance including removal of redundant substructures, foundations, roads, kerbs, paving, hard standing areas, unsuitable demolition materials; — Diversion of existing NI Water foul sewers; — Diversion of existing storm culverts/sewers; — Earthworks cut/fill, to establish suitable building and hard standing formation platforms for future main works package; — Soil improvement/stabilisation of unsuitable excavated soils to be used for fill; — Temporary removal to on-site stockpile, treatment and reinstatement of recently placed soil fill arising from excavated soils from Arvalee School site and recycled demolition materials, which were poorly compacted and deemed unsuitable. Soils/material to be reinstated including suitable compaction and soil improvement/stabilisation; — Earth retaining reinforced embankments; — Removal of surplus excavated material and unsuitable material; — Formation of stone haul road for future main works contract; — Formation of stone platforms on each building site for future main works contract; — Removal of existing redundant underground drainage; — Protection of pedestrian and vehicular access to Arvalee School; — Landscaping works; — Installation of protection to ecological features; — Diversion of overhead NIE cables; and — Potential management of asbestos containing material within services/ site materials. The estimated Project/Contract period for the SSEC Site Preparation Works is 37 weeks.
The Authority's particular requirements will he set out in the invitation to tender documentation and may include, inter alia, performance bond(s) and/or parent-company guarantee(s) and/or other forms of security.
The economic operator should note that the contract conditions may include a requirement to utilise a Project Bank Account (PBA). The economic operator may be required to execute a trust deed for the operation of the PBA.
The PBA will be provided by either the Employer or the economic operator and is to be used to make payments by the Employer to the economic operator and to 1
The economic operator will be required to make payments to all subcontractors named in the PQQ through the PBA.
No specific legal form is required but if a contract is awarded to a group of economic operators the Contracting Authority will require the group of economic operators to be jointly and severally liable in respect of all obligations and liabilities relating to the contract before entering into the contract.
If an economic operator fails to reach satisfactory levels of performance the economic operator may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance.
The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the economic operator being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Contracting Authorities on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of 12 months from the date of issue of the certificate. A list of these bodies can be viewed at: https://www.dfpni.gov.uk/articles/list-public-bodies-which-ni-public-procurement-policy-applies
Conditions for participation in this procurement are set out in the pre-qualification documents. Economic operators interested in the provision of the Works will be required to complete a pre qualification questionnaire which is available from the electronic portal listed in Annex A.
CPD is assisting the CA in conducting the procurement process for this requirement, but for the avoidance of doubt, the contract will be entered into by the (CA) and the successful tenderer(s) and CPD is acting as a central purchasing body.
(I) Not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice or to cancel the procurement at any stage;
(II) To make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition;
(III) To award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the (services) covered by this notice; and
And in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly at risk of the company participating in this procurement process.
This project will be used to progress the Government's wider social, economic and environmental objectives.

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