Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-03-31
Buyer: National Heritage Memorial Fund
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 71541000: Construction project management services
Estimated value: 7000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-05-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: National Heritage Memorial Fund — Register of Support Services 2018 to 2022 — Construction Project Management Services.
Consultants must be appropriately qualified and experienced, willing to engage with applicants and grantees to guide them towards achieving best practice.
Consultants must demonstrate continuous professional development through membership of an appropriate professional body and experience of working with clients from a range of different sectors. Consultants should also have experience of working through different procurement routes to deliver construction projects and have experience of physical works to buildings, structures or sites of heritage interest.
In order to provide maximum flexibility we intend to procure specialists, entitled Consultants, who must be available to assist in projects across the whole of the UK.
Consultants may be deployed across all of the key steps of our grant development, assessment and monitoring phases as noted below:
The Consultants role on any individual case will be defined at the time of commissioning and will involve 1 or more of the following functions:
— Facilitating grantees to identify and remove blockages to the development and/or delivery of their project.
— Using specialist knowledge and experience to support grantees to help develop and deliver their project's vision.
— Supporting grantees to undertake learning and development opportunities relevant to their project's objectives.
— Undertaking risk assessment (building on HLF analysis) and developing an agreed risk monitoring plan. Providing mentoring support to reduce risk(s) in accordance with risk monitoring plan.
— Ensuring compliance with HLF requirements and reporting on progress against the project plan and project budget.
— Providing expert advice on project management arrangements, procurement and cost and programme plans to support HLF decision making.
— Supporting HLF's decision making process by commenting on aspects of a project application relevant to the Consultant's area of expertise.
D) Projects that have completed but are still in contract may require further consultancy support in line with 1 of the 3 roles above.
Construction project management specialist expertise and skills — As described in II.1.4 of this notice.

Eligibility requirements: Bidders must register via the electronic tender management portal, ‘Delta’, using the following link: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/ Bidders must click on the ‘Supplier Register’ button and complete the questionnaire to register. This will make their details available to HLF and other buyers who use Delta to manage their tenders. Please register as a supplier by Wednesday 3.5.2017. Full details will be in the tender documents from the tender-box which will open on 08.5.2017. Login and use access code 6C64C77SP8 on that day.

Award value: 7000000