Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-11-22
Buyer: Department of Infrastructure NI
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45111250 | 71510000
Estimated value: 500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-12-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: EU Fund

Technical requirements: The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) Southern Division are advancing the design and development of a new strategic road link in Northern Ireland to the south of Newry, between the A1 Dublin Road dual carriageway and A2 Warrenpoint Road dual carriageway. Construction and Procurement Delivery (CPD), acting as the Central Purchasing Body, is administering a procurement exercise on behalf of DfI to appoint an Economic Operator (EO) to undertake ground investigation works to inform the design of the new link road's preferred route. GI works will be required on land and over water to facilitate road, pier and bridge design to include, but not be limited to:
The Contract will be awarded on the basis of the MEAT using the mean narrow average price scoring mechanism as detailed in draft ITT Doc 1.
The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) Southern Division are advancing the design and development of a new strategic road link in Northern Ireland to the south of Newry, between the A1 Dublin Road dual carriageway and A2 Warrenpoint Road dual carriageway. Construction and Procurement Delivery (CPD), acting as the Central Purchasing Body, is administering a procurement exercise on behalf of DfI to appoint an Economic Operator (EO) to undertake ground investigation works to inform the design of the new link road's preferred route. GI works will be required on land and over water to facilitate road, pier and bridge design to include, but not be limited to:
The Contract will be awarded on the basis of the MEAT using the Mean Narrow Average Price Scoring Mechanism as detailed in draft ITT Doc 1.
Successful candidates will be required to undertake a full suite of geotechnical, geochemical and geo-environmental lab testing. The contract includes preparing both factual and digital data reports. The works contract will be under NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract, Option B conditions. Specifications will include those contained in the Manual for Contract Documents for Highway Works.
Economic Operators in order to be eligible to participate in the procurement, must have a constructionline category value equal to or greater than [500 000,00 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 % — [200 000,00 GBP] and the sum of each member’s category values must be equal to or greater than the value set out above.
Public Liability Insurance [10 000 000 GBP]. Employer’s Liability Insurance [10 000 000 GBP]. Contractors All Risks Insurance [575 000,00 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 contract Pre-qualification Questions (PQQ1) — Section D of the online 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.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 (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.
The land based GI includes working on steep slopes, in dense woodland and with traffic management restrictions. The over water GI includes working under tidal conditions. Successful candidates will be required to undertake a full suite of geotechnical, geochemical and geo-environmental lab testing. The contract includes preparing both factual and digital data reports. The works contract will be under NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract, Option B conditions. Specifications will include those contained in the Manual for Contract Documents for Highway Works.
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. 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 limit to 3 months, where the court considers that there is a good. reason for doing so).


Award value: 500000