Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-02-09
Buyer: Ipswich Borough Council
Country: UK
Region: Suffolk
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45210000: Building construction work | 45211000: Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings | 45211100 | 45211300
Submission deadline: 2017-03-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Design and Build Contract for both the design and the construction of 60 No. dwellings together with associated; drainage, external works, roads, parking, landscaping, external services and any other necessary on, or off site works at land off Old Norwich Road, IP1 6LB, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Design and Build Contract for both the design and construction of 60 No. dwellings together with associated; drainage, external works, roads, parking, landscaping, external services and any other necessary on or off site works at land off Old Norwich Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 6LB.
The authority may require a parent company guarantee if the contract is awarded to a subsidiary company. A performance bond may be required if the contract value exceeds 1 000 000 GBP.
Joint and several liability will be required if a group of economic operators is awarded the contract and a lead contractor must be appointed.
Economic operators who express an interest in the contract will be required to complete a pre-qualification questionnaire..
The authority will select economic operators in accordance with regulations 23-26 of the Public Regulations 2015.
The time limit stated in IV.3.4 is for returning the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire. Requests to participate may only be made by obtaining and completing the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and returning it to the contracting authority at the address stated in I.1.1.
The address and time limit for the return of tenders will be stated in the tender documents, which will be sent to those candidates who are selected to participate.
All dates and time periods specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change them.
The authority reserves the right not to award the contract. It reserves the right not to proceed with all or any part of the project detailed at II.1 above and in no circumstances will it be responsible for any costs incurred by economic operators as a result of the publication of this notice or otherwise in connection with their tenders.
Full details of this tender can be found on the Suffolk Sourcing System — www.suffolksourcing.co.uk Before viewing this tender, please refer to the Suffolk Sourcing System ‘User Guides’ which can be accessed via the Suffolk Sourcing Homepage.
Suffolk Sourcing is an E-Tendering system jointly operated by Suffolk County, District and Borough Councils.
The authority will allow a standstill period of at least 10 days at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. The standstill period provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for an economic operator who has suffered or risks suffering loss damage by a breach of the regulations to take proceedings in the High Court. Proceedings must normally be started within 30 days of the date when the economic operator first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting proceedings had arisen.

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators who express an interest in the contract will be required to complete a pre-qualification questionnaire.. Please see the pre-qualification questionnaire. Please see the pre-qualification questionnaire.
Please see the pre-qualification questionnaire.