Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-23
Buyer: All Saints' College Board of Governors
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71000000 | 71220000 | 71300000 | 71310000 | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services
Estimated value: 1800000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-02-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The objective of this procurement is to appoint an economic operator team (EOT) who will develop the employer’s requirements in relation to the delivery of a new post primary college for All Saints’ College. The existing All Saints’ College does not meet the present need or the accommodation standards as specified within the current Department of Education Secondary School Building Handbook. The appointed EOT shall provide the professional services applicable to RIBA (2020) Stages 0 to 7 and also as specified within this document. The EOT shall develop the design to RIBA (2020) Stage 4 detailed technical design before appointing a contracting team to deliver the project throughout all remaining RIBA Plan of Work (2020) Stages 5 to 7. Following the contracting team’s procurement and appointment the EOT shall undertake the management of the contracting team on behalf of the employer. For a complete description of this procurement please refer to CfT contract documents and draft scope of services.
The objective of this procurement is to appoint an economic operator team (EOT) who will develop the employer’s requirements in relation to the delivery of a new post primary college for All Saints’ College. The existing All Saints’ College does not meet the present need or the accommodation standards as specified within the current Department of Education Secondary School Building Handbook. The appointed EOT shall provide the professional services applicable to RIBA (2020) Stages 0 to 7 and also as specified within this document. The EOT shall develop the design to RIBA (2020) Stage 4 detailed technical design before appointing a contracting team to deliver the project throughout all remaining RIBA Plan of Work (2020) Stages 5 to 7. Following the Contracting Team’s procurement and appointment the EOT shall undertake the management of the contracting team on behalf of the employer. For a complete description of this procurement please refer to CfT contract documents and draft scope of services.
In accordance with Regulation 65(3) of the Public Contract Regulation 2015, 5 candidates will be invited. This offers adequate competition to ensure that the employer is assured value for money and that. there is sufficient opportunity offered to tenders. However, this limit also protects the industry from wasting valuable resources which are required to prepare a tender submission.
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: https://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 Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy can be viewed at: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/list-public-bodies-which-nipublicprocurement-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:
(ii) 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
(iii) 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: Please refer to PQQ documents.

Award value: 1800000