Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-12-09
Buyer: LGSS Procurement on behalf of Cambridgeshire County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 71313000: Environmental engineering consultancy services | 71318000: Lighting engineering services
Submission deadline: 2020-01-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region is a major contributor to the UK economy and economic output is anticipated to double over the next 25 years. This rate of growth places high pressure on the housing and transport infrastructure of the region, leading to congestion and other negative impacts which act as a constraint on investment and continued economic development.
In order to address these pressures and maintain economic growth, significant and ambitious investments are being made in the region’s housing, transport systems and other infrastructure.
This framework enables the organisations and other public sector bodies within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (collectively known as the contracting authorities) to enter into work orders with either of the 2 suppliers to provide professional and technical services to support the delivery of this investment.
— the Greater Cambridgeshire Partnership will use this framework as the primary route to procure services,
— Cambridgeshire County Council will use this framework to supplement existing arrangements where appropriate,
— Peterborough City Council will use this framework to supplement existing arrangements where appropriate,
— other public sector bodies within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (including the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority) may use the framework as and when a requirement within the scope of this framework arises.
However, the contracting authorities give no guarantee of the volume of work that may be procured through this framework and reserve the right to procure services through other routes.
The estimated value of the services over the life of the framework agreement is estimated between 80 000 000 GBP to 100 000 000 GBP.
It is expected that an initial framework will last for a period of 3 years, with the option of 2 extensions of 1 year each making a potential total of 5 years in total length and will take the form of a framework agreement, under which individual requirements will be specified and priced according to a schedule of rates agreed as a result of this tender process.
This Framework is for five years instead, in order to align with the funding five year programme of the Greater Cambridge Partnership.
This procurement is not divided into lots; the requirements of this framework mitigate against the use of multiple lots as it would require extensive co-ordination and interface management. The partner organisations do not have, or wish to employ, the additional resources that would be needed to manage and co-ordinate these interfaces. Therefore, the partner organisations have identified a model with 2 multiple disciplinary providers rather than split the work into ‘lots’.
To enable the suppliers to develop a deeper understanding of the complex transport related issues of the region and ensure that it is retained and deployed on future projects.
The framework scope is the provision of professional services across the full project lifecycle for transportation and other infrastructure projects in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region.