Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-01
Buyer: The Executive Office
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71220000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 243600 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-07-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This commission is for an integrated consultant team (ICT) to provide concept design and cost input services to outline business cases. The services are to be provided in accordance with RIBA Plan of Work 2013, stages 0-2 only, for a number of proposed Urban Villages Capital projects located in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. The specific stage input is stage 0 Strategic Definition, stage 1 preparation and brief and stage 2 concept design, for a number of Urban Villages Initiative projects including various community related building types, parks, public realm environmental schemes, vacant/derelict sites, etc. Specific employer tasks are provided in the tender documentation Scope of Service Annex A — currently provided in draft for information purposes. The contract will operate for a period of 2 years with the option for the employer to extend annually, subject to satisfactory ongoing performance, for a further two periods of 1 year each up to a maximum of 4 years.
This commission is for an Integrated Consultant Team (ICT) to provide concept design and cost input services to outline business cases. The services are to be provided in accordance with RIBA Plan of Work 2013, stages 0-2 only, for a number of proposed Urban Villages Capital projects located in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. The specific stage input is stage 0 strategic definition, stage 1 preparation and brief and stage 2 concept design, for a number of Urban Villages Initiative projects including various community related building types, parks, public realm environmental schemes, vacant/derelict sites, etc. Specific employer tasks are provided in the tender documentation scope of service Annex A — currently provided in draft for information purposes. The contract will operate for a period of 2 years with the option for the employer to extend annually, subject to satisfactory ongoing performance, for a further two periods of 1 year each up to a maximum of 4 years.
The contract will operate for a period of two (2) years with the option for the employer to extend annually, subject to satisfactory ongoing performance, for a further two (2) periods of one (1) year each up to a maximum of 4 years. Work programmes for specific tasks to be agreed on a task order basis.
Further information is provided in the procurement documents, please refer to MOI Part A 1.6.1 shortlist of economic operators.
In order for a contractor/consultant to be eligible to participate in this competition they must hold licenses, accreditations or certificates for specific categories and sectors as set out below: please refer to the pre-qualification documentation.
The economic operator team must be made up of the following disciplines: architect, quantity surveyor, civil engineer, landscape architect, principal designer.
The economic operators’ performance on this contract will be regularly monitored. As part of its contract management procedures, the contracting authority will use the protocol for managing poor supplier performance contained in procurement guidance Note PGN 01/12 — Contract management principles and procedures: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/procurement-guidance-note-0112-contract-management-principles-and-procedures If an economic operator has received more than one current notice of written warning or a notice of unsatisfactory performance, the contracting authority, at its discretion, can consider an economic operator’s exclusion from future procurements, being undertaken on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively. A list of bodies subject to NIPPP can be viewed at: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/list-public-bodies-which-ni-public-procurement-policy-applies
CPD, in its capacity as a central purchasing body, is administering this procurement on behalf of the contracting authority. The contracting authority expressly reserves the right:
(ii) not to award any contract/framework agreement as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice or to cancel the procurement at any stage; and
(iii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition and in no circumstances will the authority be liable for any costs incurred by economic operators or candidates. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly at the sole risk of the economic operator or candidate participating in this procurement process. No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement or contract, indeed there is no guarantee that any framework agreement or contract will be put in place in relation to this notice. No compensation, etc. will be paid if a contract or framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Economic operators should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: this procurement is governed by the Public Contract Regulations 2015 and provides for economic operators who have suffered or who risk suffering loss or damage as a consequence of an alleged breach of duty owned in accordance with Regulation 91 to start proceedings in the High Court. A standstill period will commence at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers .That notification will provide information on the award decision .The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the required decision before the contract is entered into. Any proceedings relating to any perceived non-compliance with the relevant law must be started within 30 days, beginning with the date when the economic operator first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. (A court may extend the time to 3 months where the court considers that there is a good reason for doing so).

Eligibility requirements: In order for a contractor/consultant to be eligible to participate in this competition they must hold licenses, accreditations or certificates for specific categories and sectors as set out below: please refer to the pre-qualification documentation.

Award value: 243600