Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-02
Buyer: Lancaster University
Country: UK
Region: Lancashire
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45100000: Site preparation work | 45110000 | 45111000 | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work
Submission deadline: 2017-01-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: It is anticipated works to be delivered under this planned contract may be part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Programme 2014 to 2020.
The Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) is ranked amongst the top 100 business schools worldwide. The University (Contracting Authority) wishes to build on the Management School’s international standing by creating a world-class teaching and research environment to cater for the future needs of its students, staff and business partners. The Authority is utilising the Restricted procurement procedure under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to procure a Contractor, to deliver both design and build works and services (demolition, new build and refurbishment) through what is commonly termed in industry as the two stage process. The project itself will effectively be delivered in three phases; the first of these being enabling works. The project will be delivered to BIM Level 2 and BREEAM Outstanding required for new build elements and BREEAM Excellent required for elements with significant refurbishment. The successful Economic Operator/Contractor will be required to enter into three (non-negotiable) forms of contract: A Pre-Construction Services Agreement; A JCT Design and Build 2011 contract with amendments for enabling works; A JCT Design and Build 2011 contract with amendments for the main contract works. The net construction cost is approximately GBP 30 000 000 (inclusive of the elements listed in the Invitation To Tender Schedule 4 Pricing; Contract Sum Analysis, and exclusive of VAT).
The Authority is not offering an accompanied site visit at PQQ Stage. However Economic Operators successfully proceeding to Invitation To Tender (ITT) stage will be invited to attend an accompanied site tour; the purpose of which will be to familiarise themselves with the reality of the ITT Specification including but not limited to the Employer’s Requirements.
For full details please refer to the procurement documents which are available free of charge via the Contracting Authority’s e-tendering portal: In-Tend https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ Documents must be accessed and submissions returned via this portal. Any clarifications on procedure, documentation or the project generally must be raised through the In-Tend ‘correspondence’ function.
The contract terms and conditions are non-negotiable. Submissions can only be made in full acceptance of these.
For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/
Economic Operator’s will be excluded from the procurement process if they meet the mandatory grounds for exclusion or if there is evidence of convictions relating to specific criminal offences including, but not limited to, bribery, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, fraud and money laundering, or if the Economic Operator has been the subject of a binding legal decision which found a breach of legal obligations to pay tax or social security obligations (except where this is disproportionate e.g. only minor amounts involved). Economic Operator’s may be excluded (subject to self-cleaning) from the procurement process if they meet the discretionary grounds for exclusion detailed in the procurement documents; including but not limited to legal or regulatory violations, bankruptcy, professional misconduct, distorting competition, conflicts of interest, prior involvement, deficiencies in prior contracts, misrepresentation, withholding information, unduly influencing the Contracting Authority, or providing misleading information. Economic Operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. Economic Operators are deemed to understand the procurement process which the Contracting Authority is following under European and domestic legislation (particularly in relation to public procurement).
Economic Operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/
The contracting authority will assess the level of financial risk the economic operator presents on a pass/fail basis. The economic operator's latest three years filed accounts must pass the financial appraisal threshold set in the procurement documents based on financial ratios. Economic operators must have a minimum turnover of 50 000 000 GBP per annum evidenced in their last 3 years filed accounts. Turnover must relate to the construction services division of the business and not the wider group/or collective divisions or parent company. It is a mandatory requirement that economic operators are able to offer the authority a parent company guarantee from the ultimate / parent company where one exists, and a performance bond for 10 % of the contract value.
It is mandatory that economic operators must have or must commit to obtaining prior to contract commencement: 10 000 000 GBP Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance, 10 000 000 GBP Public Liability Insurance, 10 000 000 GBP Professional Indemnity Insurance, and 10 000 000 GBP Contractor's all risk.
Economic operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/
Economic operators are required to be registered to ISO 14001 or equivalent, ISO 9001 or equivalent, BS OHSAS 18001 or equivalent, must be competent to fully discharge the Principal Designer duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 for a Design and Build project, and must be able to demonstrate BIM (Building Information Modelling) or equivalent technical and professional ability through contract examples.
The Pre-Qualification Questionnaire available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ details the terms on which the contracting authority will down-select a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 6 of the highest scoring economic operators to participate in the invitation to tender stage. The Pre-Qualification Questionnaire requires details of 4 relevant experience and contract examples, one must have been delivered for the education sector.
For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/
For economic operators participating in the Invitation To Tender stage there will be an optional site visit provisionally scheduled for Thursday 2.2.2017 at 10:30. If deemed necessary by the authority there will be mandatory clarification interviews post-tender deadline — provisionally scheduled for Tuesday 28.3.2017.

Eligibility requirements: For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ Economic Operator’s will be excluded from the procurement process if they meet the mandatory grounds for exclusion or if there is evidence of convictions relating to specific criminal offences including, but not limited to, bribery, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, fraud and money laundering, or if the Economic Operator has been the subject of a binding legal decision which found a breach of legal obligations to pay tax or social security obligations (except where this is disproportionate e.g. only minor amounts involved). Economic Operator’s may be excluded (subject to self-cleaning) from the procurement process if they meet the discretionary grounds for exclusion detailed in the procurement documents; including but not limited to legal or regulatory violations, bankruptcy, professional misconduct, distorting competition, conflicts of interest, prior involvement, deficiencies in prior contracts, misrepresentation, withholding information, unduly influencing the Contracting Authority, or providing misleading information. Economic Operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. Economic Operators are deemed to understand the procurement process which the Contracting Authority is following under European and domestic legislation (particularly in relation to public procurement). Economic Operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ The contracting authority will assess the level of financial risk the economic operator presents on a pass/fail basis. The economic operator's latest three years filed accounts must pass the financial appraisal threshold set in the procurement documents based on financial ratios. Economic operators must have a minimum turnover of 50 000 000 GBP per annum evidenced in their last 3 years filed accounts. Turnover must relate to the construction services division of the business and not the wider group/or collective divisions or parent company. It is a mandatory requirement that economic operators are able to offer the authority a parent company guarantee from the ultimate / parent company where one exists, and a performance bond for 10 % of the contract value. It is mandatory that economic operators must have or must commit to obtaining prior to contract commencement: 10 000 000 GBP Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance, 10 000 000 GBP Public Liability Insurance, 10 000 000 GBP Professional Indemnity Insurance, and 10 000 000 GBP Contractor's all risk. Please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ Economic operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ Economic operators are required to be registered to ISO 14001 or equivalent, ISO 9001 or equivalent, BS OHSAS 18001 or equivalent, must be competent to fully discharge the Principal Designer duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 for a Design and Build project, and must be able to demonstrate BIM (Building Information Modelling) or equivalent technical and professional ability through contract examples. Please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/
Economic Operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ The contracting authority will assess the level of financial risk the economic operator presents on a pass/fail basis. The economic operator's latest three years filed accounts must pass the financial appraisal threshold set in the procurement documents based on financial ratios. Economic operators must have a minimum turnover of 50 000 000 GBP per annum evidenced in their last 3 years filed accounts. Turnover must relate to the construction services division of the business and not the wider group/or collective divisions or parent company. It is a mandatory requirement that economic operators are able to offer the authority a parent company guarantee from the ultimate / parent company where one exists, and a performance bond for 10 % of the contract value. It is mandatory that economic operators must have or must commit to obtaining prior to contract commencement: 10 000 000 GBP Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance, 10 000 000 GBP Public Liability Insurance, 10 000 000 GBP Professional Indemnity Insurance, and 10 000 000 GBP Contractor's all risk. Please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/
Economic Operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ The contracting authority will assess the level of financial risk the economic operator presents on a pass/fail basis. The economic operator's latest three years filed accounts must pass the financial appraisal threshold set in the procurement documents based on financial ratios. Economic operators must have a minimum turnover of 50 000 000 GBP per annum evidenced in their last 3 years filed accounts. Turnover must relate to the construction services division of the business and not the wider group/or collective divisions or parent company. It is a mandatory requirement that economic operators are able to offer the authority a parent company guarantee from the ultimate / parent company where one exists, and a performance bond for 10 % of the contract value. It is mandatory that economic operators must have or must commit to obtaining prior to contract commencement: 10 000 000 GBP Employer's (Compulsory) Liability Insurance, 10 000 000 GBP Public Liability Insurance, 10 000 000 GBP Professional Indemnity Insurance, and 10 000 000 GBP Contractor's all risk.
Please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/
Economic operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ Economic operators are required to be registered to ISO 14001 or equivalent, ISO 9001 or equivalent, BS OHSAS 18001 or equivalent, must be competent to fully discharge the Principal Designer duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 for a Design and Build project, and must be able to demonstrate BIM (Building Information Modelling) or equivalent technical and professional ability through contract examples. Please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/
Economic operators will be excluded from the procurement process as detailed in the procurement documents; if they ‘fail’ questions indicated within the documents as marked on a pass/fail basis or if they score a mark which permits the evaluation panel to cease marking the tender and disqualify it entirely. For full details please refer to the procurement documents available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ Economic operators are required to be registered to ISO 14001 or equivalent, ISO 9001 or equivalent, BS OHSAS 18001 or equivalent, must be competent to fully discharge the Principal Designer duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 for a Design and Build project, and must be able to demonstrate BIM (Building Information Modelling) or equivalent technical and professional ability through contract examples.