Public procurement notice: Services Concession
Published: 2019-03-13
Buyer: London Borough of Hillingdon
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Concession award procedure
CPV classification: 45212290 | 45259000 | 50000000 | 50324100 | 50700000
Estimated value: 170000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-04-19
Award criteria: Other

Technical requirements: The Authority is seeking expressions of interest from a suitably experienced and qualified service provider to enter into a concession contract (the “Concession Contract”) provide a range of management and related services (“Concession”) for up to 5 sports and leisure facilities all located in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The Concession includes cleaning services, environmental and energy management, customer service, catering and vending services, managing IT systems, maintenance of buildings plant and equipment, grounds maintenance, event management, reporting and marketing and publicity services, and meet a series of performance standards in respect of the concession. The successful tender will enter into a bespoke concession contract with the Authority for an initial period of 10 years with an option at the Authority's sole discretion to extend for a further period of 5 years, giving a total possible contract term of 15 years.
The Authority is seeking expressions of interest from a suitably experienced and qualified service provider to enter into a concession contract (the “Concession Contract”) to provide a range of management and related services (“the Concession”) to up to 5 sports and leisure facilities all located in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Sport and leisure has been an important priority for the Authority, and significant capital investment has been allocated over the past 10 years to provide brand new leisure facilities and to promote the Authority's vision to be a “more active, more healthy successful sporting Borough”. The Authority is keen to encourage proposals to maximise the long-term benefit and sustainability of each centre to the communities they serve. The Authority is able to provide capital investment of approximately 2 250 000 GBP for agreed projects that provide a good return on investment. The selected service provider must be able to balance the Authority's financial expectations with the need to fulfill through programming and development, the needs of the local community and sports clubs by providing a varied programme of activities whilst supporting club development and local sporting success. In addition to the 4 existing centres, the Authority is currently planning the design and construction of a new sports and leisure centre which is anticipated to be completed during the term of the concession contract. It is intended that the selected service provider for this tender will also be given the opportunity to deliver services to the newly constructed 5
This tender process is being undertaken as a concession contract for social and other specific services pursuant to Regulation 19 of the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016. Full details of the tender evaluation process will be set out in the procurement documents.
The Authority reserves the right not to award any concession contract pursuant to this tender exercise and/or to abandon this tender exercise at any time and/or to award a concession contract for part of the concession at its sole discretion. The Authority shall have no liability whatsoever to any tenderer as a result of its exercise of that discretion. For the avoidance of doubt, all costs incurred by any tenderer before signature of any concession contract with the Authority shall be incurred entirely at that tender's risk.


Award value: 170000000