Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-17
Buyer: Department for Education
Country: UK
Region: EAST OF ENGLAND
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 44211000 | 45100000: Site preparation work | 45111000 | 45210000: Building construction work | 45214000: Construction work for education buildings
Estimated value: 95000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-12
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This commission is to design and build a standardised component solution to suit all primary schools be they all-through Primary, Junior or Infant and to suit a range of forms of entry (size of school). This framework includes the implementation of 9 initial primary schemes and the potential of further primary school schemes up to total project value of 95 000 000 GBP. The EFA intends to develop and apply the solution developed under this framework for use on further frameworks which will include primary school blocks and secondary school blocks.
East of England, London, East Midlands (England), West Midlands (England), South East (England), South West (England), North West (England), North East (England).
The EFA intends to appoint 3 contractors to the framework agreement — a primary contractor and 2 reserve contractors. The primary contractor will deliver a group of 9 primary schools named in the framework agreement. The reserve contractors will deliver any such schemes in circumstances where the prime contractor is unable to deliver the scheme or disqualified pursuant to the terms of the framework agreement. The framework also allows for the introduction of future primary school schemes up to a maximum value (including the named schemes) of circa 95 000 000 GBP. These additional schemes will be open to the primary contractor and the 2 reserve contractors and subject to the mini-competition procedure set out in the framework agreement. Schemes may be located throughout England.
Candidates will be limited by applying the selection criteria set out in the pre-qualification questionnaire available from the above-mentioned contact point in section I.3)
It it intended that an initial 9 primary school schemes will be delivered through the framework agreement. Further primary school schemes (including primary Free Schools) may be delivered through the framework agreement up to a total value of approximately 95 000 000 GBP.
Purchases from the Framework Agreement may be made by the Secretary of State for Education and by local authorities in England, academy trust companies and proprietors of free schools in England and governing bodies of maintained schools in England.
The successful candidates will be required to maintain insurance of the types and in the amounts set out in the framework agreement, available from the above-mentioned contact point.
The contracting authority welcomes expressions of interest from consortia. No particular legal form is required at the time of submission of expressions of interest or tenders. The contracting authority reserves the right,however, to require consortia to form a legal entity prior to the execution of the framework agreement or to require that each party to the consortium undertakes joint and several liability for the delivery of the framework agreement and contracts issued under it.
The Education Funding Agency has adopted Constructionline, a certification service for construction-related contractors, consultants and material suppliers to reduce the administrative burden on suppliers wishing to apply for this opportunity.
If you are already registered with Constructionline, you will not need to complete our full PQQ — simply complete the top section of the Compliance Questionnaire providing details of your Constructionline registration and you then only need to complete the separate project specific Technical questionnaire.
If you are not registered on Constructionline you can still participate and will need to provide a response to the full PQQ and complete all questions in the Compliance Questionnaire and Technical Questionnaire.
If you are registered with Constructionline, please ensure you log-in to your Constructionline profile and confirm the information they hold on your company is accurate, that you are registered for appropriate work categories, and that you have a suitable notation value in place. Please note that if the details held on Constructionline do not meet the mandatory requirements listed in the Technical Questionnaire, then you will either need to update your details on Constructionline or provide additional information with your response to the Technical Questionnaire to demonstrate compliance. You must ensure any changes are made to your information prior to the closing date of this notice. Please contact Andy Preston on 07584703352 or andrew.preston@capita.co.uk for assistance.
Candidates who wish to register with Constructionline may contact Tom Jackson on. 07712391082; orthomas.jackson@capita.co.uk If you wish to register in advance to avoid completing the compliance questionnaire, you will need to start the registration process as soon as possible and ensure that you achieve a fully registered status prior to the closing date of this notice.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Primary-school-construction-work./6VG9CB9B9F
To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/6VG9CB9B9F

Eligibility requirements: The successful candidates will be required to maintain insurance of the types and in the amounts set out in the framework agreement, available from the above-mentioned contact point.

Award value: 95000000