Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-18
Buyer: The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45221100: Bridge construction works | 45221110 | 45221111 | 45233139
Estimated value: 1 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NUTS code: UKI33. Main site or place of performance: Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK. The main site for the performance of the services is the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. However, it is anticipated that other participating bodies may also call-off from the framework and require the services to also be performed in their own geographical area.
The Works shall be carried out within the area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and comprise without limitation the following:
The works comprise a combination of reactive and programmed maintenance works as well as some new installation works.
(1) Specific maintenance work as described in the Schedules of Rates in relation to bridges and structures for which the Council (or any participating body as the case may be) has a maintaining responsibility. For the Council, at the date of this notice, these include without limitation;
Which includes regular clearing of expansion joints, gullies, drainage channels, foot-ways, etc. of the bridge, bridge closures and the associated traffic management works, repair/replacement of timber deck panels, clearing vegetation for access to bridge abutments, graffiti removal, etc.
Those bridges and structures currently under the responsibility of LBHF and which may form the subject of a call-off contract in due course include:
(2) For emergency works, the successful tenderer will be required to mobilise the necessary resources within 2 hours and proceed with the works as instructed.
Applicants are referred to the ITT and the accompanying procurement documents for further details of the procurement and the contracts.
The contract will be for a contract period of 5 years with the option exercisable by the Council to extend for a period or periods in aggregate of up to 3 years, with a maximum total contract period of 8 years.
Further information to appear in the invitation to tender. Parent company guarantee, bonds, deposits or some of the other form of appropriate security may be required for the contract and framework agreement and further details will appear in the procurement documents and final invitation to tender.
Joint and several liability. Should the successful tenderer be a consortium of companies, the lead partner will be responsible for completing the commission on behalf of the consortium and all payments will be made to the lead partner for services rendered by the consortium. Support partners will be required to complete a collateral warranty agreement in favour of the Contracting Authority.
The Council intends to award a separate contract and framework agreement to the same economic operator. The framework agreement acts as a secondary and separate component of this procurement. The purpose of the framework agreement is to enable a number of other participating bodies to benefit from this procurement by commissioning the works (or some of them) through awarding call-off contracts under the framework agreement. The participating bodies are as follows:
The Council will therefore be acting as a central purchasing body through which the participating bodies may wish to purchase substantially similar works to those awarded under the Council's contract without the need for any further procurement. There shall however be no obligation on the participating bodies to call-off from the framework agreement, and no guarantee or warranty is given as to the nature or volume, if any, of the works or the number of call-offs, if any, under the framework agreement.
The framework agreement will be for 4 years, however the call-off contracts under the framework will have various durations depending on the preferences of the participating bodies.
Where the proposed call-off contract covers work subject to tenant consultation requirements under section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (such as housing estate drainage works), any such quotation may be in competition with other quotations received from, for example, tenant-nominated contractors.

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Award value: 1