Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2016-04-14
Buyer: Notting Hill Housing Trust
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 09323000 | 71314000: Energy and related services | 71314200: Energy management services
Estimated value: 90000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-05-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Notting Hill Housing (NHH) is seeking suppliers to enter into Energy Service Company (ESCo) services concession contracts for the provision of communal/district heating services at various development sites across the Greater London area. This PIN has been issued in order to advertise the opportunities to the market and seek expressions of interest from suppliers that may wish to take part in the associated tender(s). Notwithstanding any statement on this notice to the contrary, NHH considers the contracts contemplated within this PIN to be services concession contracts. This PIN is being advertised on a voluntary basis. NHH will not be required to follow the specific tender procedures of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or Concession Contracts Regulations 2016 and therefore will not be procuring these contracts in-line with those procedures. Expressions of interest must be received by 17:00 on Friday, 20.5.2016. Please see Section II.2.14 for additional information.
This Prior Information Notice contains a condensed version of the procurement information that Notting Hill Housing (NHH) is making available to suppliers. To access full details and express interest please visit https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=196463333 using the access code R8C3TJSTFB.
The Requirement: 7 NHH development sites fall within the scope of this PIN: Aylesbury Estate Regeneration, Manor Place Depot, Stanmore Broadway, Chobham Farm, Wooddene, Lampton Road, Spray Street. At each of these a site-wide heat network is being installed to provide heating and hot water to residential and/or non-residential premises. For each development NHH may (at its discretion) seek to grant a services concession to a specialist in energy services for the operation of the heat network and provision of heat services to end-users.
The Contracts: Each development would be subject to a separate services concession contract. NHH expects the duration of each contract will be within a range of 15 to 40 years in accordance with market norms. However the term for each individual contract will be determined by NHH and may be longer or shorter than the range suggested here.
Expressions of Interest: Suppliers may express an interest in any or all of the contracts set out in this PIN. When submitting their expression of interest suppliers should clearly state which contract(s) they are interested in.
Tenders: NHH may elect (at its discretion) to proceed with a tender(s) in respect of any of these contracts in the 12-month period following the PIN issue date. NHH may run a series of independent tenders in respect of individual contracts, or carry out a single tender process in respect of 2 or more contracts either by bundling them or structuring them as lots, or a combination of these approaches. Suppliers who have expressed an interest in response to this PIN will be invited to confirm their interest in the tender(s); this invitation will be accompanied by the tender documents.
Contracting Authority: Any services concession contracts arising from this PIN may be entered into by Notting Hill Housing Trust or any other organisation within the Notting Hill Housing Group.
Contract Value: The estimated value for contracts that may arise from this PIN, given at section II.1.5) is only an approximate maximum based on preliminary assumptions and should not be relied upon.
1. NHH considers that each of the ESCo project contracts contemplated in this PIN are services concession contracts. This is because each contract bears the essential characteristics of a services concession, as follows:
b) NHH will grant the concessionaire the right to exploit the services opportunity relating to the district heating network and the requirement for heat services.
d) The large majority of the revenue obtained by the concessionaire will be derived directly from the end-users of the heat services rather than from the contracting authority.
2. These contracts are therefore being advertised in the OJEU on a voluntary basis. NHH will not be required to follow the specific tender procedures set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
3. NHH has published this PIN as an advertisement seeking expressions of interest in the contracts described within, prior to the implementation date of the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016. NHH considers that, in doing so, none of the contracts falling within the scope of this PIN will be subject to the Concession Contract Regulations 2016. Instead the regulatory environment in effect at the PIN issue date will apply.
4. NHH will not be issuing any further notices within the OJEU in respect of the opportunities described in this PIN. This includes any OJEU Notice or Contract Award Notice.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-District-heating./R8C3TJSTFB


Award value: 90000000