Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-12-08
Buyer: Department for Communities
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45240000: Construction work for water projects | 45252124
Estimated value: 5000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-01-29
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The provision of maintenance dredging along the length of the impounded River Lagan from Stranmillis Weir to the Lagan Weir over a length of approximately 4.7km to a level of -1.2m O.D. and the dredging and reinstatement of the 10m wide incised incised channel to a depth of -2.5m O.D. All dredged materials shall be disposed of at sea in line with the Marine and Coastal Access Act (MCAA) license issued by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA)
River Lagan removal of approx. 50 000* cubic metres of material for disposal. *(EO to verify the exact quantity based on information within tender documents AND from own pre-dredge bathymetric survey.
The provision of maintenance dredging along the length of the impounded River Lagan from Stranmillis Weir to the Lagan Weir over a length of approximately 4.7Km to a level of -1.2m O.D. and the dredging and reinstatement of the 10m wide incised incised channel to a depth of -2.5m O.D. All dredged materials shall be disposed of at sea in line with the Marine and Coastal Access Act (MCAA) license issued by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA)
Works undertaken directly from floating plant, arisings decanted to water based plant prior to transfer to main sea going vessel for discharge at disposal site designated by DAERA. Use of land based plant or transfer of arisings by road to landfill site is not permitted. Contract period for dredging works is 1.9.2019 to 31.3.2020, works not be permitted outside this time frame annually.
Economic Operators in order to be eligible to participate in the procurement, must have verified status on Constructionline with a Category Value equal to or greater than [5 000 000.00 GBP] in at least one of the Relevant Work Categories listed below:
If the Economic Operator is a Group of Economic Operators, then the Lead Enterprise for the Group. must have a minimum Category Value of at least 40 % - [2 000 000.00 GBP] and the sum of each member’s Category Values must be equal to or greater than the Category value set out above.
Public Liability Insurance [10 000 000 GBP]. Employer’s Liability Insurance  [10 000 000 GBP] ]Contractors All Risks Insurance [5 750 000.00 GBP] . Professional Indemnity Insurance [1 000 000.00 GBP].
The Work Category is not intended to be used to determine the relevance of the. Economic Operator's experience – this will be assessed as part of the Minimum Standards and Quality criteria of the. online Call for Tender (CfT) Questionnaire on the eTendersNI portal.
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.financeni.. 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 (NIPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively. A list of bodies subject. to NIPP can be viewed at: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/list-public-bodies-which-ni-public-procurement-policy-applies.
Authorised users within CPD Procurement Operations Branch (POB) - Department of Finance (DoF) Northern Ireland.
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. This project will be used to progress the Government’s wider social, economic and environmental objectives.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.
This procurement is governed by the Public Contracts 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 the duty owed 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 award decision before the contract is entered into.


Award value: 5000000