Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-03-12
Buyer: Sovini Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 70320000 | 71210000 | 71220000 | 71221000 | 71223000
Estimated value: 2500000 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The Sovini Group (‘Sovini’) invites tenders for organisations (‘Service Providers’) to participate in a 48-month agreement (‘the agreement’) for the provision of Development Consultancy Services (‘Services’). The range of services to be supplies are detailed within the tender documentation. The agreement will be used by Sovini and all subsidiaries of Sovini, both current and future. The Agreement may also be accessed by other contracting authorities, including other registered providers of social housing operating across the North-West of England.
Scope of services likely to be required includes, but no limited to: building surveying services, clerk of works services, compliance with planning and building regulations including topographical surveys, contract administration services, contract drafting and provisional contract advice, contract procurement and documentation, cost planning, control and reporting (including budgeting and cashflow forecasting), defects diagnosis/building pathology, employers agent services, feasibility reports, party wall surveys, obligations and agreements, performance monitoring and reporting, preparatory surveys, programme planning, project management services, quantity surveying services.
Scope of services likely to be required, but is not limited to: alterations and extensions, architectural and drafting services, building regulation applications, computer generated drawings and images 2D/3D, feasibility reports, flat conversions, housing quality indicator (HQI) survey, planning application and appeal, planning designs and applications, refurbishments, residential new build, working details.
Scope of services likely to be required includes, but is not limited to: foundation advice, new build and refurbishment, repairs, road, sewers, drainage design and advice, specialist capability in historic and listed buildings, structural inspections, structural investigations, structural reports and advice.
Scope of services likely to be required includes, but is not limited to: market value of land/property for acquisition/disposal purposes, market value of sale plots (for disposal purpose), market rental values for new rental plots, reinstatement costs for new plots for insurance purposes, market value for resale of shared ownership homes, market value of shared ownership homes for stair casing purposes, revaluations of market rent portfolio, revaluations of affordable rent portfolio, valuations of homes to be disposed of via right to buy and right to acquire, valuation of freehold interest, compensation valuation in cases where we wish to acquire property from leaseholders (i.e. market value and statutory home loss/disturbance payments).
Service Providers bidding for lot 4 must ensure that they hold The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) accreditation, i.e. valuations must be completed by RICS qualified surveyors and conducted in accord with the RICS Valuation – Professional Standards (the ‘Red Book’). This will be assessed on a pass/fail basis.
Scope of services likely to be required includes, but is not limited to: provision of principle designer consultancy services to Sovini in compliance with the requirements of the construction (design and management) Regulations 2015. Expectation is that when appointed the Service Provider’s role shall be to plan, manage and monitor the pre-construction phase and co-ordinate health and safety.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
Sovini will incorporate a voluntary minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the framework agreement is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the decision to award the framework agreement before it is executed/signed.


Winner: Wilkinson Cowan
Award value: 2500000
Number of bids: 13