Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-05-05
Buyer: Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 50000000 | 50700000 | 50710000 | 50711000 | 50712000
Estimated value: 68000000 GBP

Technical requirements: This requirement is for a reactive/response maintenance and improvement service within the lot areas identified within this notice. The scope of the services required may include but may not be limited to:
This requirement is for a response/reactive maintenance and improvement service within mid and east Antrim. The scope of the services required may include but may not be limited to:
This requirement is for a response/reactive maintenance and improvement service within South Antrim. The scope of the services required may include but may not be limited to:
This requirement is for a reactive maintenance and improvement service within North Down. The scope of the services required may include but may not be limited to:
This requirement is for a response/reactive maintenance and improvement service within South Down. The scope of the services required may include but may not be limited to:
This requirement is for a reactive maintenance and improvement service within Lisburn and Castlereagh. The scope of the services required may include but may not be limited to:
The initial competition for maintenance and improvement services was stood down on 20 March 2020 due to the current coronavirus, Covid-19 outbreak. Whilst the contracting authority responded to the Covid-19 outbreak immediately, the contracting authority now understands that in our early proactive attempts to sustain service coverage using existing contracts have been unsuccessful. The contracting authority therefore needs to urgently procure this contract. The contracting authority now intends to undertake a new procurement competition for these services using the accelerated open procedure. The consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak are so novel they were unable to be predicted. The current contract will come to its natural end at the start of September 2020. There is therefore insufficient time to run a procurement competition using the open procedure because the time limit laid down in paragraph (2) of regulation 27 could result in a gap in service thereby creating an intolerable risk to our customers. The tender documentation is being finalised and should be published in very early course. Given the urgency, it is the intention of the contracting authority that the time for returning tenders shall be fixed at 15 days from the date that the OJEU notice is sent. This PIN is therefore to give some advance notice to the market that this tender is imminent. Due to the urgency to award the contract, the competition will likely be on price only. This potential contract is vital to address essential statutory requirements of the contracting authority which, directly and indirectly, impact the health, safety, mental and physical wellbeing of our customers, including those whom may be vulnerable or at risk given the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak. This requirement may be segmented into 5 lot contracts aligning with the geographical area offices. It is anticipated that tenderers will be able to bid for a maximum of 3 lots and be limited to winning a maximum of 1 lot (however the contracting authority reserves the right to increase this to 2 as set out in the tender documentation). For instance, in the event that there are some unallocated lots once all tenderers have been allocated 1 Lot after the award sequence has been completed, the contracting authority reserves the right to re-run the award sequence outlined in the ITT provided the economic operator has submitted a price list offer for the unallocated lots and use their total tender score to continue to award lots in the order detailed in the ITT. For the avoidance of doubt no tenderer will be awarded more than 2 lots. The most economically advantageous tender will be assessed on the basis of cost alone. The Contracting authority reserves the right to amend the above when issuing the tender documentation in early course. Note. the estimated total value of this requirement is subject to change when the tender documentation is issued.


Award value: 68000000