Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-02
Buyer: The University of Manchester
Country: UK
Region: Greater Manchester
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71324000: Quantity surveying services | 71530000: Construction consultancy services | 71541000: Construction project management services
Estimated value: 250000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-03-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University of Manchester wishes to appoint a company to deliver Project Management Services for the Manchester Museum — The Courtyard Project
The Courtyard project seeks to transform Manchester Museum's reach to increased and diversified audiences, and make a pivotal contribution to Manchester city-region's economic, social and cultural renaissance at the heart of the emerging Northern Powerhouse.
Combining exceptional architectural new build and extensive reconfiguration of existing spaces, the development will:
— Create the North of England's leading venue for temporary exhibitions on human cultures and the natural world; one which is free of charge for all.
— Develop the region's only large-scale gallery of South Asian history and culture; the largest British Museum Partnership Gallery in the UK.
— Deliver a step-change in public engagement, volunteering, learning programmes and civic participation, driven by a new ethos of Manchester Museum as a ‘museum for life’.
— The Treasury (Department for Culture, Media & Sport) — 5 000 000 GBP secured from Treasury towards the South Asian Gallery
— Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) — 4 600 000 GBP to be secured, a Stage 1 HLF application has been made.
Manchester Museum / fundraising — the remainder from Museum endowments, internal contributions and fundraising activities
The figures given are an estimate only of the total value of the project and should not be taken as a guarantee of income.
If it is considered appropriate by the University, an indemnity, guarantee, bond or other form of appropriate security may be required for contracts awarded under this arrangement.
The University's particular requirements will be set out in the tender documentation but it should be noted that the University reserves the right to require groupings of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single operator to take primary liability for a contract to be performed by a group of economic operators or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability in respect of the entire contract irrespective of the form the grouping takes.
In accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended and as set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT).
The University intends to invite between 5-8 candidates to participate in the ITN on the basis of the ranking of candidates at PQQ stage at which the criteria referred to in Regulation 65 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, as amended will be assessed and marked.

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In accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended and as set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT). Information as detailed in the ITT.
In accordance with Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended and as set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT).
Information as detailed in the ITT.
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