Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-07-08
Buyer: Derby Homes Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45246000: River regulation and flood control works | 45246400 | 71200000 | 71220000 | 71221000
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: This framework is for the various surveys, architectural services and audits related to the development teams activity during our new build programme. The framework is split into lots and a Service Provider may submit prices for any of the lots that they see fit.
The Service Provider is to investigate a site to assess its suitability for a project/development and to provide a report on the risks associated with the project/development.
As part of the assessment for developments, the Client will require an accurate topographical survey to be undertaken of the site(s).
The Client will require the Service Provider to develop and issue a full flood risk assessment report in line with the requirements set out by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
The Client requires a full review of any potential site(s) and the history of the site(s) so that a suitable method of design and construction may be adopted for new domestic properties.
An air tightness test and an acoustic test will be undertaken to determine a properties conservation of fuel and power and resistance to the passage of sound. Tests will be undertaken in accordance with approved document part L1A. and approved document part E.
Although the code for sustainable homes has now been withdrawn, the Client will still require a Service Provider to undertake the delivery of sustainable homes surveys, assessments and subsequent certification, in accordance with the Homes and Communities Agency's Code for Sustainable Homes Technical Guide dated November 2010.
It is envisioned that the Client will utilise the services of Derby City Council's own in-house architects department for the delivery of such services. However, from time to time, the Client will employ a Service Provider to undertake such services.
Examples (but not an exhaustive list) of the types of projects that the Service Provider will undertake include:
In order to draw funding from the Affordable Housing Programme (AHP) 2015-18 provided by the Homes and Community Agency (HCA), the Client needs to provide a Compliance Audit undertaken by an Independent Auditor (the Service Provider). This is to ensure that policies, funding conditions and procedures, as set by the HCA, are followed correctly.
The Service Provider must provide evidence that their staff and/or operatives have obtained and hold the following:
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
The Council will incorporate a minimum of 10 calendar-day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the Council before the contract is entered into. Such information should be requested from the address stated within this notice. If an appeal regarding the award of the contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provides for aggrieved parties who have been harmed, or are at risk of harm, by a breach of the rules, to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Island). Any such action must be started within 30 days beginning with the date when the aggrieved party first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. The Court may extend the time limit for starting proceedings where the Court considers that there is a good reason for doing so but not so as to permit proceedings to be started more than 3 months after that date. Where a Contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the contracting authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the Contract has been entered into, the Court may only award damages or, where the Contract award procedures have not been followed correctly, declare the contract to be ‘ineffective’.


Winner: Mewies Engineering Consultants Ltd
Award value: 4000000
Number of bids: 5