Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-07-03
Buyer: Aberdeen City Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34928500 | 44113130 | 45000000: Construction work | 45112711 | 45112720
Estimated value: 19000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-08-24
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Council intends to regenerate Union Terrace Gardens located within Aberdeen City Centre as part of the Council’s City Centre Master Plan. The rejuvenation of Union Terrace Gardens is one of 22 projects identified within the City Centre Masterplan.
The proposed scheme includes the overall landscape design of the former Victorian gardens, including restoration of key heritage features along with the inclusion of new contemporary landscape features. The scheme also includes a series of new architectural interventions, namely new elevated walkway structures and three new buildings within the setting of the gardens.
Following the work undertaken by the Council's appointed design team — ACC are in a position to commence with the works element of the regeneration of Union Terrace Gardens. The works comprises the complete renovation of Union Terrace Gardens including new pavilions to Union Street, Union Terrace and Rosemount Viaduct linked by feature walkways along with refurbishment of the Union Terrace arches and upgrading works to Union Terrace. There are also strengthening works to the balustrades round the park and additional height metal balustrade barriers on Union Street. The gardens landscaping comprises slabbing, grassed areas, trees, seats and lighting along with a major lighting feature in the centre of the gardens.
In order to comply with the Global Question within the ESPD, Tenderers must meet the following criteria:
Bidders will be required to have a minimum general yearly turnover of 30 000 000 GBP for the last 3 years.
Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
The Authority will use an independent credit scoring organisation, namely Credit safe, to conduct appropriate financial probity checks. An unsatisfactory report which identifies potential areas of concern or risk may require further account related information to be provided for further assessment.
In the event that the Contractor's performance fails below a satisfactory level, the Contractor will be invited to determine a means of rectifying the situation. Repeated or continual failures may result in suspension or termination of the contract.
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=548329.
The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.
Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.
The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:
It is not felt that inclusion of such a clause would achieve the desired outcomes at this time. The involvement of SMEs etc is addressed as part of the overarching community benefits project plan instead.
Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361


Award value: 19000000