Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-23
Buyer: Board of Governors of St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71220000 | 71324000: Quantity surveying services | 71540000: Construction management services
Estimated value: 260000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DE — 2352019 — Appointment of an Integrated Consultant Team for SEP2 — 67; St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh
The provision of a construction related professional services team of consultants to actively develop the employer's requirements and provide professional services in accordance with RIBA plan of work 2013 Stages 1-7. For a complete description of this procurement please refer to the pre-qualification questionnaire package.
The award will be made on the basis of quality and the 'Narrow Average' price. Award criteria is as set out in the instructions to tenderers document. Please refer to ITT Document 3 of 4 scope of services, for detailed description of the service provision required.
In order for a consultant to be eligible to participate in this competition they must hold licences, accreditations or certificates with a professional construction body as set out in the procurement documents.
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. 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 (NIPPP) can be viewed at. www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/list-public-bodies-which-ni-public-procurement-policy-applies.
CPD, in its capacity as a central purchasing body, is administering this procurement on behalf of the contracting authority. The contracting authority expressly reserves the right not to award any contract/framework agreement as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice or to cancel the procurement at any stage; and to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition and in no circumstances will the authority be liable for any costs incurred by economic operators or candidates. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly at the sole risk of the economic operator or candidate participating in this procurement process. This project will be used to progress the Government’s wider social, economic and environmental objectives. No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement or contract indeed there is no guarantee that any framework agreement or contract will be put in place in relation to this notice. No compensation, etc. will be paid if a contract or framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Economic operators should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.
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).

Eligibility requirements: In order for a consultant to be eligible to participate in this competition they must hold licences, accreditations or certificates with a professional construction body as set out in the procurement documents.

Award value: 260000