Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-05-13
Buyer: University of Southampton
Country: UK
Region: Southampton
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45214000: Construction work for education buildings | 45214400
Estimated value: 25000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-06-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The New Teaching and Learning Building is situated in the North West of the University of Southampton Highfield campus.
The building is arranged over a lower ground floor, an upper ground floor and 6 storeys above, with M&E plant located at roof level. The scheme is for a compact building footprint with wings of 4 and 7 storey. The building contains a large 250 seat lecture theatre, 9 seminar rooms, a Harvard style lecture theatre, 2 open plan teaching spaces, a computer room, MBA space, multiple areas of independent learning space and a café. The building stands between other existing buildings and at the hub of many traffic routes, such as vehicular traffic on Salisbury Road, access to the east to the bus interchange, and cyclists and pedestrians from all approaches. The building is permeable to pedestrian access from all elevations for both those using the building facilities, and persons passing through.
Due to the proximity of neighbouring buildings the building is to be delivered and operated with the minimum of disruption to business as usual for the activities of both the University, and other users such as Nuffield Theatre and Turner Simms concert hall.
The Main contract includes for fitting out of all Fixed Furniture and Equipment, loose furniture, Audio Visual equipment and IT.
The risk of dividing onto Lots would render the execution of the contract excessively technically difficult and not cost effective, and undermine proper execution.
High level award criteria for the Contract is 70/30 quality/price. Full details included within ITT documentation.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to request a suitable guarantee or performance bond. See further details in the Invitation to Tender document — Article 10.
The Contractor shall within 14 days of the date of this Contract deliver to the Employer the Contractor a Parent Company Guarantee duly executed by its ultimate parent company in the form set out in Schedule 10 in favour of the Employer. If the Contractor does not have a parent company, or does not have a parent company reasonably acceptable to the Employer, the Contractor will procure that a guarantor enters into the form of performance bond in set out in Schedule 9 in favour of the Employer for an amount equal to 10 % of the Contract Sum (rounded down to the nearest whole number).
No special legal form will be required. In the case of organisations applying as a consortia or joint venture, full details for each member is required. It will be necessary for each member to sign an undertaking that they shall be jointly and severably liable or to require a single provider to take primary liability for the performance of the contract.
A minimum of 5 operators will be taken through to the ITT stage unless fewer than 5 submissions are received. Refer to pre-qualification documents for full detail on minimum requirements and selection criteria.
This tender will be conducted electronically and tender documents can be downloaded from the web portal (Intend) provided earlier in this notice: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton
If you are not already registered as a supplier with the In-Tend Portal, you will need to register before accessing the tender documents. if you are not an existing supplier to the University, please complete and upload the Health and Safety New Supplier documentation which is attached to the stage along with the tender document.
Once you have logged in as a supplier, click on current tenders and locate the tender documents by clicking on 16/PROF/27. Further instructions for the submission of tender are below. (Please note, to preserve the integrity of the tendering procedure, all queries must made be via In-Tend).
6. Once All your response documents are uploaded and displayed in the — My Documents for Return — use — Submit My Return — You are only permitted to submit once.
This tender will be conducted electronically and tender documents can be downloaded from the web portal (Intend) provided earlier in this notice: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton

Eligibility requirements: Contractor will be required to operate under Considerate Constructors Scheme. As set out in the Invitation to tender documents. Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 20 000 000 GBP; Public Liability Insurance = 20 000 000 GBP; Professional Indemnity Insurance = 30 000 000 GBP.
As set out in the Invitation to tender documents. Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 20 000 000 GBP; Public Liability Insurance = 20 000 000 GBP; Professional Indemnity Insurance = 30 000 000 GBP.
As set out in the Invitation to tender documents.
Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 20 000 000 GBP; Public Liability Insurance = 20 000 000 GBP; Professional Indemnity Insurance = 30 000 000 GBP.