Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-02
Buyer: Suffolk County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 44212120 | 45221000: Engineering works for bridges and tunnels | 45221100: Bridge construction works | 45221110 | 45221111
Estimated value: 60000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-12-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: To award a contract for Design and Build of the Lake Lothing Third Crossing in Lowestoft. The delivery will be in 2 stages with the contractor engaged to undertake the Professional Services to achieve Target Price. Subject to Target Price, the same contractor will then undertake the build phase under an Engineering and Construction contract.
The new crossing consists of a multi-span bridge which includes an opening bridge, a new rail bridge on the north side over the existing East Suffolk Line and a new road bridge (underpass) on the south side. The opening bridge will enable tall vessels to pass through. However, higher than the existing bascule bridge so a large number of boats would be able to pass underneath without the need to lift.
The new crossing of Lake Lothing will provide a footway on both sides with one side being wider to accommodate a shared use combined footway and cycleway.
The Design and Build of the Lake Lothing Third Crossing estimated cost is 60 000 000 GBP. The procurement will be undertaken as a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation. The Selection Questionnaire will be the PAS91 and we will be supported by Construction line in the evaluation of submissions including undertaking evaluation of the submissions from companies who are not registered with Construction line.
The Council intends to select a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 8 bidders, should their scores be significantly close following the evaluation against the published evaluation criteria. These top ranked bidders will be taken forward to the ISIT stage. Suffolk County Council reserves the right to award the contract at this stage without the need to negotiate. If required further down selection to the three top ranked bidders following evaluation of the ISIT against the published evaluation criteria and model will be invited to participate in the negotiation and ISFT stage, provided that we are satisfied that this will provide genuine competition.
This procurement will be managed electronically via the Councils procurement system. To participate in this procurement, Applicants must first be registered on the procurement system at www.suffolksourcing.uk
Once registered you will be able to view the procurement under the tenders section and express an interest.
If you encounter any difficulties whilst using the system you can contact the support team by phoning 0845 557 8079 or +44 (0) 114 407 0065.
If you are interested in bidding for this contract we strongly suggest that you attend our Bidders Open Event including a supervised site visit to be held on Tuesday 7.11.2017. Please see further detail in Bidders Open Event Poster.
We shall provide access to a data room for bidders who express an interest where they will be able to access the project documentation. Access to this will be removed from bidders who are removed.
The Selection Questionnaire will be the PAS91 and we will be supported by Construction line in the evaluation of submissions including undertaking evaluation of the submissions from companies who are not registered with Construction line.
The Council intends to select a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 8 bidders, should their scores be significantly close following the evaluation against the published evaluation criteria. These top ranked bidders will be taken forward to the ISIT stage. Suffolk County Council reserves the right to award the contract at this stage without the need to negotiate. If required further down selection to the three top ranked bidders following evaluation of the ISIT against the published evaluation criteria and model will be invited to participate in the negotiation and ISFT stage, provided that we are satisfied that this will provide genuine competition.
Suffolk County Council reserves the right to procure repeat requirements of a similar nature without a further call for competition pursuant to Regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Interested parties are invited to express their interest to gain full access to the tender documentation, additional information can be found in the Contract Data-room access to this information will be provided following an email to lakelothing3rdcrossing@suffolk.gov.uk
The deadline date for submissions of the tender is 12:00 Monday 4.12.2017. The deadline for clarification questions is 12:00 Wednesday 22.11.2017 which must be generated via the correspondence option on the website.


Award value: 60000000