Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-31
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 66000000 | 66518100 | 71000000 | 71300000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 260000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-09-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Highways England seeks to appoint 6 Technical Advisers (TAs) to support delivery of the UK Road Investment Strategy (RIS). TAs will recommend to Highways England the best route option and then protect its technical interests throughout development and delivery phases of a scheme. The TA will act as an enabler in its relationship with the DIP, assisting Highways England to create the environment for project success. The framework will be divided into 6 lots, with each lot having a specific value threshold for schemes and covering a defined geographical area:
— Lots 1 to 3 (Band A) are for schemes with a client budget of less than or equal to 100 000 000 GBP,
Provision of TA services for the delivery of RIS 2 (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/road-investment-strategy-post-2020) schemes with a client budget of less than or equal to £100m in the South West and Midlands regions.
There will be 1 tenderer appointed to this lot but they are not guaranteed any work or specific schemes from this tender process. Schemes allocated to this lot will be issued through a direct award to the successful tenderer for this lot or in circumstances specified in the procurement documents tendered as a mini-competition which may include the suppliers appointed to all lots. The successful tenderer for this lot may also have opportunities to win additional schemes in the rest of England in the circumstances specified in the procurement documents. Please note that the award of a scheme at PCF stage 1 does not guarantee it will proceed to PCF stage 7; a scheme can be withdrawn at any PCF stage in line with Highways England's governance procedures.
Develop options that comply with legislation and policy, through HE's preferred project delivery methodology (Project Control Framework(PCF), to take to public consultation
Preferred options should be deliverable, affordable and provide value for money when whole life of asset is taken into account
Undertake and record an appraisal of the performance of scheme options against key metrics with high technical assurance
Identify maintenance activities and designated fund opportunities that could be delivered during the project
Deliver effective stakeholder engagement and public consultation to enable a Preferred Route Announcement
Fully engage with the Regional Sustainable Improvement Hub(s), the National Community of TAs and Centre(s) of Excellence.
Assure against the High Level Requirements allocated to the Delivery Integration Partner (DIP) and be custodians of the preferred route intent;
Assure the basis of the marginal gain calculations when the DIP maintains or improves the investment baseline (measured via marginal cost benefit analysis);
Through high quality, right first time, service delivery, support the DIP's delivery of efficiency and predictability;
Assure and support transition of schemes from the DIP into Operations Directorate (OD) through to completion of SGAR 7
Highways England will not allow a TA for a scheme to also be the DIP (framework) Principal Designer for any given scheme. A Market Share rule will be applied to the value of work any one TA can undertake during the framework. This value is £78m which represents 30 % of the overall framework value.

Eligibility requirements: As detailed in the procurement documents: — constructionline (https://www.constructionline.co.uk/) is the UK Government's national pre-qualification register for construction contractors and consultants, — applicants may demonstrate their suitability for a number of aspects in the selection process through providing their registration number for their valid and up to date constuctionline account. Contractors or incorporated joint ventures (single legal entities) submitting an application should provide their constructionline registration number. For unincorporated joint ventures submitting an application each member of the group should provide their individual constructionline registration number, — constructionline members are requested to ensure their profile is valid and up to date for the purposes of this tendering process, — where applicants do not have a constructionline account, or a valid and up to date constructionline account,they will have the opportunity to demonstrate their suitability through other means, in accordance with the procurement documents, — where a tenderer is unable to demonstrate sufficient financial standing a guarantor to provide a parent company guarantee will be required. If no parent company guarantee is available, then an alternative form of guarantee will be provided for Highways England’s approval. A parent company guarantee (or equivalent) may be requested at any time during the term of the contract, — applicants cannot express an interest as a joint venture in the same lot if they have expressed an interest as a single entity.

Award value: 260000000