Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-09
Buyer: Education Funding Agency
Country: UK
Region: Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71500000 | 71520000: Construction supervision services | 71521000: Construction-site supervision services | 71530000: Construction consultancy services | 71540000: Construction management services
Estimated value: 12500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-12-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Education Funding Agency (‘EFA’) is procuring to appoint suppliers to a framework to support the delivery of the Free Schools programme. This will include Project Management services on a national basis and Technical Advisory services in two regions, North and South. The EFA is the executive agency of the Department for Education (‘DfE’) responsible for funding. This includes supporting the delivery of schools capital projects, including Free Schools.
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, East Midlands (England),west Midlands (England), Yorkshire and The Humber, North West (England), North East (England).
The EFA envisages appointing up to 4 suppliers to provide Technical Advisory services to the North of England.
The EFA shall have the option to extend the duration of the framework agreement by up to two further periods of 12 months, for a total period of up to four years. The anticipated framework commencement date is April 2017.
The EFA envisages appointing up to 8 suppliers to provide Technical Advisory services to the South of England.
The EFA shall have the option to extend the duration of the framework agreement by up to two further periods of 12 months, for a total period of up to 4 years. The anticipated framework commencement date is April 2017.
East of England, London, East Midlands (England), West Midlands (England), South East (England), South West (England), Yorkshire And The Humber, North West (England), North East (England).
The EFA envisages appointing up to 10 suppliers to provide Project Management services on a National basis to support the delivery of the Free Schools Programme.
The EFA shall have the option to extend the duration of the framework agreement by up to two further periods of 12 months, for a total period of up to 4 years. The anticipated framework commencement date is April 2017.
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.
Purchases from the framework may be made by the EFA, the Secretary of State for Education, LocatED Property Limited or any other body owned or controlled for the time being by any of the above.

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: 12500000