Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-01-23
Buyer: Procurement
Country: UK
Region: South Lanarkshire
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 45214000: Construction work for education buildings | 45215000: Construction work for health buildings | 45252210 | 65100000 | 71311300
Estimated value: 40000000 GBP

Technical requirements: This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) only: Publication and Call for Competition will be Conducted once Scope of Work is Fully Defined and Approved. DFID are seeking partners to manage a new multi-million programme for rehabilitation works for the water supply system to Freetown, Sierra Leone and development of other infrastructure. The priority interventions to be managed through the DFID programme are likely to comprise: 1.Rehabilitation of the existing Freetown water supply infrastructure, based on assessments, pre-design and contract packaging that is currently being undertaken by the Guma Valley Water Company with DFID assistance; 2. Protect and regenerate catchment areas to safeguard water security and reduce climate change vulnerability. Their will also be provision for services to be provided in support of other programmes with infrastructure components including energy, education (school construction) and health (hospital/clinic construction). DFID expects that the delivery of this programme will require the suppliers to fulfil a range of functions. These could include programme and funds management, technical design, procurement, contract management and site supervision/quality control of construction, delivery of technical support and knowledge management.
DFID will be hosting an Early Market Engagement Event about the planned Programme and the services required from interested parties. The main objective is to elicit market views on the feasibility of the proposed delivery options and to discuss challenges and opportunities. The event will be in the form of a 2 hour session that will take place in DFID, 22 Whitehall, London. Further details concerning the event will be noted on the DFID Portal in due course. DFID will present the programme, its proposed outputs and delivery channels, as well as a set of key questions to stimulate the discussion. Parties interested in attending the presentation or requiring any other information must register interest in this event via the DFID Supplier Portal. This will be the main communication channel moving forward (https://supplierportal.dfid.gov.uk/selfservice/). Parties are therefore encouraged to keep up to date with the Portal over the coming weeks as further information will be added in due course. We are happy to receive questions in advance of this event, which DFID will respond to at the event. The discussion's headlines will also be published after the event on the Supplier Portal. We will not disclose the source of the questions and answers. Due to space restrictions we request only 1 attendee per interested party. Please note that this is a prior information notice to advertise a Supplier Day. No tender document will be available at this stage. Although it is planned that this procurement will be run via the Restricted Procedure this is subject to change.