Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-06-21
Buyer: Highways England
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 03000000 | 31000000 | 34922100 | 34923000 | 34928100
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-08-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Area 13 — Main site or location of works: Cumbria, Lancashire; M6 between M6 Junction 30 and 31 to M6 Junction 45. M55 from M6 Junction 32 to end of M55 at Junction 4. A585 from M55 Junction 3 to Dock Street, Fleetwood. A590 from M6 Junction 36 up to and including Park Road Roundabout, Barrow in Furness. A66 from County Durham boundary at Stainmore summit to junction with Wilson Street, Workington. A595 from Traffic Signal Controlled Junction at Calder Bridge to A66 Junction at Chapel Brow Roundabout. A74(M) from M6 Junction 45 to Scottish Border beyond Gretna Interchange. A7 Junction 44 roundabout, A69 junction 43 roundabout. Supporting Functions: DBFO routes within Area 13. And may include routes within the Area 13 region where the local authority are responsible for undertaking certain activities. Geographical areas, routes and route lengths may change during the currency of the award procedures and the contract. The above descriptions are all subject to final ratification.
Area 14 — Main site or location of works: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham, North Yorkshire; A1 (M) from Junction 49 A1 (M) at Dishforth (North Yorkshire) to Junction 51 on A1 (M) at Leeming (North Yorkshire). A1 from Junction 51 on A1 (M) at Leeming (North Yorkshire) to Junction 56 on A1 (M) at Barton (North Yorkshire). A1 (M) from Junction 56 Barton (North Yorkshire) to Junction 65 Birtley Interchange (Gateshead). A1 from Junction 65 A1 (M) to Scottish Border. A194(M) from Junction 65 on A1 (M) to Junction A184/A194 White Mare Pool (South Tyneside) entire length. A184 from Junction A184/A194 White Mare Pool to Junction A19 Testo's Roundabout (South Tyneside). A19 from Wallsend Interchange (North Tyneside) to Junction with A1 at Seaton Burn (Northumberland). A696 from Junction A1 Kenton Bar (Newcastle) to Prestwick Roundabout (Northumberland). A195 (M) from Junction 64 on A1 (M) to A195 Western Highway (Gateshead). A66 from Cumbria Boundary to Junction with A1 at Scotch Corner (North Yorkshire). A66 (M) from A1 (M) Junction 57 to Blackwell Roundabout (North Yorkshire). A66 from Blackwell Roundabout (North Yorkshire) to Teesside Park (Stockton-on-Tees). A168 roundabouts and link roads on A1 (M)/A168 Dishforth Interchange (North Yorkshire). A61 roundabouts and link road at Junction 50 A1 (M) Baldersby (North Yorkshire). A6055 roundabouts and link road at Junction 51 A1 (M) Leeming (North Yorkshire). A68 roundabout at Junction 58 A1 (M) Burtree Interchange (Durham). A167 roundabout at Junction 59 Coatham Mundeville (Durham) and at Junction 63 A1 (M) Blind Lane (Durham). A689 roundabout at Junction 60 A1 (M) Bradbury Interchange (Durham). A177 roundabout at Junction 61 A1 (M) Bowburn Interchange (Durham). A690 roundabout at Junction 62 A1 (M) Carrville Interchange (Durham). Supporting Functions: DBFO routes within Area 14. And may include routes within the Area 14 region where the local authority are responsible for undertaking certain activities. Geographical areas, routes and route lengths may change during the currency of the award procedures and the contract. The above descriptions are all subject to final ratification. Highways England may ask the Construction Works Framework Supplier(s) to provide similar services in other Highways England maintenance areas or in support of other highway authorities within England.
Highways England has a requirement to deliver construction works to maintain, repair and renew the Strategic Road Network (SRN) within Highways England Areas 13 and 14. Construction Works Framework (CWF) will be made up of a number of different contractors from different specialist areas who will work together to deliver network improvements and maintenance schemes within Area 13 and 14. The framework will cover but not limited to: — Civil Engineering Works including earthworks, fencing, landscaping, road restraints, drainage and ducts, kerbs, foot-ways, paved areas, traffic signs and markings, road lighting and electrical work for lighting, structures; — Piling and retention walls and structural concrete, waterproofing, painting and any other similar duties. The CWF will have 11 lots which will represent each of the specialist areas required to successfully deliver the works. The Lots specialist areas are detailed further within Annex B. Over the 4 year period the likely maximum expenditure for the Framework is specified in II.1.4) The estimated maximum annual expenditure for each of the Lots is specified within Annex B; however, this is an estimated figure and no commitment is given to any expenditure or to the value of any individual Task Order. An applicant company can tender for up to 3 Lots in Area 13 and 3 Lots in Area 14. Where an applicant company tenders for a combined Lot this will be classed as tendering for 1 Lot per Area. The process is being constructed by Highways England as the Government owned Company responsible for the SRN.
A tender conference will be held on the 27.6.2016 at Samlesbury Hotel, Preston — Preston New Rd, Preston, PR5 0UL. Please register your interest with a maximum of 2 persons to attend for the attention of the Procurement Officer named at 1.1) Please include ‘CWF Tender Conference’ as email title.
Supply of Materials, Plant and labour for the application of painting systems including specialist corrosion protection systems. Supply of material, plant and labour for the installation, maintenance and removal of any temporary works required to ensure a safe method of working.
The figures below are the estimated annual expenditure for this Lot. This will be the figure used as the ‘Contract Value’ for the purpose of undertaking the Contract Value/Turnover Calculations.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
Supply of Materials, Plant and labour to carry out concrete repairs to highway structures, installation and commissioning of cathodic protection systems, and installation and commissioning of remote monitoring systems. Supply of material, plant and labour for the installation, maintenance and removal of any temporary works required to ensure a safe method of working. The scope may also include rapid response.
The figures below are the estimated annual expenditure for this Lot. This will be the figure used as the ‘Contract Value’ for the purpose of undertaking the Contract value/Turnover Calculations.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
Supply of Materials, Plant and labour for the installation of, and repair works to, highway structures expansions joints and waterproofing systems including testing of existing waterproofing systems.
The figures below are the estimated annual expenditure for this Lot. This will be the figure used as the ‘Contract Value’ for the purpose of undertaking the Contract Value/ Turnover Calculation.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
Supply of Materials, Plant and labour for the installation, removal and commissioning of road lighting, illuminated signs and other highway electrical equipment. The scope may also include rapid response.
The figures below are the estimated annual expenditure for this Lot. This will be the figure used as the ‘Contract Value’ for the purpose of undertaking the Contract Value/ Turnover Calculation.

Eligibility requirements: 1. The supplier must declare if it or any of its directors any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the supplier has been convicted of any of the following offences: (a) conspiracy within the meaning of section 1 or 1A of the Criminal Law Act 1977 or article 9 or 9A of the Criminal Attempts and Conspiracy (Northern Ireland) Order 1983 where that conspiracy relates to participation in a criminal organisation as defined in Article 2 of Council Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA on the fight against organised crime; (b) Corruption within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 or section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906; (c) The common law offence of bribery; (d) Bribery within the meaning of sections 1, 2 or 6 of the Bribery Act 2010; or section 113 of the Representation of the People Act 1983; (e) Any of the following offences, where the offence relates to fraud affecting the European Communities' financial interests as defined by Article 1 of the Convention on the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities: (ei) the offence of cheating the Revenue; (eii) the offence of conspiracy to defraud; (eiii) fraud or theft within the meaning of the Theft Act 1968, the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969, the Theft Act 1978 or the Theft (Northern Ireland) Order 1978; (eiv) fraudulent trading within the meaning of section 458 of the Companies Act 1985, article 451 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 or section 993 of the Companies Act 2006; (ev) fraudulent evasion within the meaning of section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 or section 72 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994; (evi) an offence in connection with taxation in the European Union within the meaning of section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act 1993; (evii) destroying, defacing or concealing of documents or procuring the execution of a valuable security within the meaning of section 20 of the Theft Act 1968 or section 19 of the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969; (eviii) fraud within the meaning of section 2, 3 or 4 of the Fraud Act 2006; or (eix) the possession of articles for use in frauds within the meaning of section 6 of the Fraud Act 2006, or the making, adapting, supplying or offering to supply articles for use in frauds within the meaning of section 7 of that Act; (f) any offence listed:— (fi) in section 41 of the Counter Terrorism Act 2008; or (fii) in Schedule 2 to that Act where the Court has determined that there is a terrorist connection; (g) any offence under sections 44 to 46 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 which relates to an offence covered by subparagraph (f); (h) money laundering within the meaning of sections 340(11) and 415 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002; (i) an offence in connection with the proceeds of criminal conduct within the meaning of section 93A, 93B or 93C of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 or article 45, 46 or 47 of the Proceeds of Crime (Northern Ireland) Order 1996; (j) an offence under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004; (k) an offence under section 59A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003; (l) an offence under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (m) an offence in connection with the proceeds of drug trafficking within the meaning of section 49, 50 or 51 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994; or (n) any other offence within the meaning of Article 57(1) of the Public Contracts Directive — (i) as defined by the law of any jurisdiction outside England and Wales and Northern Ireland; or (ii) created, after the day on which these Regulations were made, in the law of England and Wales or Northern Ireland. 2. The supplier must declare if it has been established by a judicial or administrative decision having final and binding effect in accordance with the legal provisions of any part of the United Kingdom or the legal provisions of the country in which their organisation is established (if outside the UK), that their organisation is in breach of obligations related to the payment of tax or social security contributions. 3. The Supplier must declare whether any of the following situations currently apply, or have applied in the past 3 years, to their organisation: (a) your organisation has violated applicable obligations referred to in regulation 56 (2) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 in the fields of environmental, social and labour law established by EU law, national law, collective agreements or by the international environmental, social and labour law provisions listed in Annex X to the Public Contracts Directive as amended from time to time; (b) your organisation is bankrupt or is the subject of insolvency or winding-up proceedings, where your assets are being administered by a liquidator or by the Court, where it is in an arrangement with creditors, where its business activities are suspended or it is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under the laws and regulations of any State; (c) your organisation is guilty of grave professional misconduct, which renders its integrity questionable; (d) your organisation has entered into agreements with other economic operators aimed at distorting competition; (e) your organisation has a conflict of interest within the meaning of regulation 24 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 that cannot be effectively remedied by other, less intrusive, measures; (f) the prior involvement of your organisation in the preparation of the procurement procedure has resulted in a distortion of competition, as referred to in regulation 41, that cannot be remedied by other, less intrusive, measures; (g) your organisation has shown significant or persistent deficiencies in the performance of a substantive requirement under a prior public contract, a prior contract with a contracting entity, or a prior concession contract, which led to early termination of that prior contract, damages or other comparable sanctions. For the purposes of this clause Highways England would regard a quality warning notice under any Highways England contract, or an equivalent under any other contract, to be a comparable sanction; (h) your organisation — (hi) has been guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required for the verification of the absence of grounds for exclusion or the fulfilment of the selection criteria; or (hii) has withheld such information or is not able to submit supporting documents required under regulation 59 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015; or (i) your organisation has undertaken to: (aa) unduly influence the decision-making process of the Highways England, or (bb) obtain confidential information that may confer upon your organisation undue advantages in the procurement procedure; or (j) your organisation has negligently provided misleading information that may have a material influence on decisions concerning exclusion, selection or award. 4. The Supplier must declare whether any of their company tax returns submitted on or after 1.10.2012 been subject to the following situations: (a) Given rise to a criminal conviction for tax related offences which is unspent, or to a civil penalty for fraud or evasion; (b) Been found to be incorrect as a result of: (bi) HMRC successfully challenging it under the General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) or the ‘Halifax’ abuse principle; or (bii) a tax authority in a jurisdiction in which the legal entity is established successfully challenging it under any tax rules or legislation that have an effect equivalent or similar to the GAAR or the ‘Halifax’ abuse principle; or (biii) the failure of an avoidance scheme which the Supplier was involved in and which was, or should have been, notified under the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Scheme (DOTAS) or any equivalent or similar regime in a jurisdiction in which the Supplier is established. In any case where a supplier or its directors or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control has been convicted of an offence described in paragraphs (1), (2), (3) or (4), Highways England may disregard the prohibition described there if it is satisfied that there are overriding requirements in the general interest which justify doing so in relation to that economic operator in order to maintain or enable sufficient competition. Contractors or Incorporated Joint Ventures (Single Legal Entities) submitting an expression of interest should provide their Constructionline registration number. For Unincorporated Joint Ventures submitting an expression of interest each member of the group should provide their individual Constructionline registration number. Constructionline is the UK Government's national pre-qualification register for construction contractors and consultants. If a Contractor is not registered with Constructionline we require 2 years audited accounts or another element as outlined in the Tender Documents. The contract offers no guarantee of a minimum amount of work either by value or number of task orders. Highways England expressly reserves the right: (i) not to award any contract as a result of this tendering exercise commenced by publication of this notice; and (ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in no circumstances will Highways England be liable for any costs incurred by candidates. N.B: Constructionline members are requested to ensure their profile is valid and up to date for the purposes of this tendering process. Bidders who have any queries on their Constructionline profile, or wish to register on Constructionline, should contact Aaron Good on: Aaron.Good@capita.co.uk telephone. 07881 354286, or Shaun Lyons on: shaun.lyons@capita.co.uk telephone. 07557 748 525. The tenderer will be assessed against the criteria which will be stated in the tender. If any element fails against any criteria then the tenderer will be rejected and excluded from further consideration.
Contractors or Incorporated Joint Ventures (Single Legal Entities) submitting an expression of interest should provide their Constructionline registration number. For Unincorporated Joint Ventures submitting an expression of interest each member of the group should provide their individual Constructionline registration number. Constructionline is the UK Government's national pre-qualification register for construction contractors and consultants. If a Contractor is not registered with Constructionline we require 2 years audited accounts or another element as outlined in the Tender Documents. The contract offers no guarantee of a minimum amount of work either by value or number of task orders. Highways England expressly reserves the right: (i) not to award any contract as a result of this tendering exercise commenced by publication of this notice; and (ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in no circumstances will Highways England be liable for any costs incurred by candidates. N.B: Constructionline members are requested to ensure their profile is valid and up to date for the purposes of this tendering process. Bidders who have any queries on their Constructionline profile, or wish to register on Constructionline, should contact Aaron Good on: Aaron.Good@capita.co.uk telephone. 07881 354286, or Shaun Lyons on: shaun.lyons@capita.co.uk telephone. 07557 748 525.
The tenderer will be assessed against the criteria which will be stated in the tender. If any element fails against any criteria then the tenderer will be rejected and excluded from further consideration.