Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-07
Buyer: Radius Homes Limited
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45200000: Building and civil engineering work | 45210000: Building construction work | 45211100 | 45215210
Estimated value: 22900000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-12-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Appointment of a Contractor for construction of circa 244 Residential Dwellings including Civil/Environmental work at Former Visteon Site, Blacks Road, Belfast.
The proposed works contract will involve remediation of shallow soils and waters including enhanced monitoring natural attenuation, excavation and disposal off site and in-situ treatment, monitoring of contaminants, encapsulation / provision of capping layers for soils / made ground containing asbestos and other contaminants, validation / verification, significant element of earthworks, multi-phase handovers and the construction of 244 social and affordable housing units in an urban location.
A Performance Guarantee Bond or Insolvancy Insurance will be required. Please refer to the Pre-Qualification documentation for further information.
The purpose of this pre-qualification stage is to provide the Contracting Authority with sufficient information to allow Economic Operators to be selected for the tender stage for the contract. Economic Operators shortlisted from the pre-qualification process will be invited to participate in a competitive tender process for the contract. It is anticipated that the 5 Economic Operators that satisfy the completeness and compliance checks, the criteria for the rejection of economic operators, the information as to the economic and financial standing and who achieve the highest scores in the technical or professional ability evaluation process will be short-listed and invited to submit tenders for the contract. Where there is a tie for 5th place, then all economic operators in 5th place will be invited to tender. For the purpose of this exercise a tie for 5th place will have deemed to occur where 2 or more economic operators have been awarded identical scores. Economic Operators tender in the knowledge that the contract may not be tendered at the target dates set down in the procurement timetable. This is because the contract may be unavoidably delayed or alternatively cancelled. In the event that procurement is unavoidably delayed, but not cancelled, the PQQ's will be assessed at the time of receipt and applicants notified of the outcome. The maximum period that the short-list will be maintained is 12 months from the PQQ submission date. When the procurement process is recommenced, then the Contracting Authority may seek confirmation that the short-listed economic operators still meet the required minimum standards for the competition.
The Contracting Authority shall, as soon as possible after the decision has been made, inform tenderers of the decision to award the contract in accordance with Regulation 86 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. A standstill period shall apply during which the Contracting Authority shall not award the contract. Appeals against the decision of the Contracting Authority may be made to the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland in accordance with Chapter 6 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, including the time limits set out therein.

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