Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-13
Buyer: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45210000: Building construction work | 45220000 | 45232440
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-05-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: West Midlands. This framework agreement may also be potentially utilised by other organisations in the UK if deemed appropriate. This will consist of the following: All county councils, borough and district councils and unitary authorities throughout England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. These additional uses are estimated, not assured and the Council cannot guarantee any value or quantity of work associated with any Lot within this framework agreement.
This Framework contract is required for provision of highways and civils minor construction works; typically minor highway improvements, work on bridges and structures, together with other transport related highway and civil's construction.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and regional council partners in the West Midlands will need to carry out improvements across the region.
A number of infrastructure enhancements will be required which includes infrastructure improvements along corridors such as:
The works required will be broken down into 3 lots based on financial thresholds (and the implied increased complexity of works and project management) as follows:
The client reserves the right to group together a number of small packages of work to make 1 larger package. This may move a work package to a different lot.
The framework agreement will be for a 3 year period, commencing 1.11.2016 (indicative date), with the option to extend for 1 additional year subject to satisfactory performance and agreement of prices/rates.
On the basis of the PQQ submissions the Council will short-list a maximum of 10 Suppliers on lots 1 and 2 and 7 Suppliers on lot 3 in accordance with the selection criteria, to be invited to submit a tender. If there is a joint score in 10th place for lots 1 and 2 or a joint score in 7th place for lot 3 then all suppliers on the joint score will be invited to the tender stage. Provided there are sufficient Suppliers who meet the Councils requirements as outlined in the tender documentation, the Council shall appoint the following number of suppliers to each lot:
Suppliers are invited to apply for a maximum of 2 lots only. This is to encourage tenders from a wide range of civil engineering contractors.
The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement exercise, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.
From here you will be able to register your company, express an interest in the opportunity, and gain immediate access to PQQ and other related documents.
Please be mindful that if you are cut and pasting your question responses onto the On-Line Questionnaire(s) that you do so from a Notepad document, this is due to the fact that some special characters are not accepted within the On-Line Questionnaire(s).
For a Step by Step user guide to the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal please click on the ‘Guidance for Suppliers’ section of the website. All procurement responses must be carried out via the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.
If you require further assistance in respect of the system please contact the In-tend support team on +44 844 272 8810.
Some schemes may be funded by monies received from ERDF. This funding is not guaranteed and some schemes may be dependant on ERDF funding.

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