Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-04-09
Buyer: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45000000: Construction work | 45210000: Building construction work | 45211000: Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings | 45211100 | 45211300
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: DUD-Provision of Major Adaptations and Housing Assistance Works, Together with all Associated Works to Council Owned, Privately Owned and Housing Association Rented Homes within the Borough of Dudley
Dudley MBC is seeking to enter into a contractual relationship with suitably experienced and competent building contractors to deliver a range of building works to domestic properties.
Lot A is estimated to deliver workstreams equivalent to GBP 3 125 000 per annum or GBP 12 500 000 over 4 years, This is a 4-year contract with a break clause at 2 years with an option to extend by further 2 years subject to performance during the initial term. The Council reserves the right to terminate the contract in the event of non-performance at any point during the term of the contract.
Lot B is estimated to deliver workstreams equivalent to GBP 3 000 000 per annum or GBP 12 000 000 over 4 years, This is a 4-year contract with a break clause at 2 years with an option to extend by a further 2 years subject to performance during the initial term. The Council reserves the right to terminate the contract in the event of non-performance at any point during the term of the contract.
This exercise is being conducted in electronic format (e-tender). If you wish to take part please register with Dudley MBC e-tendering website www.blackcountry business.co.uk and use the register/sign in button which is located on the left-hand side of the page and complete the registration forms. Following registration, an email will be sent to you advising of your user ID along with a reminder of your email address and password.
Details of the project are located under the all opportunities link which is also where you can express an interest and receive the documentation. Once you have done this you must log back into the website using the details provided following registration and locate the contract document under tenders, my tenders on the menu. The tender should be received no later than Friday 10 April 2020 at 12.00 and will be available for download until 23.59 on Thursday 9 April 2020. URL: www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk. To access documents bidders are required to register with the website.
Companies who have previously registered with the website will be invited to input their login detail. Once an expression of interest has been accepted by the system, Users must log back into the system to access documents. Now they will appear under the my tenders tab.
Guidance documents are also published under the Help screen which can be found on the home screen at:www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk
1) Not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;
4) To award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the Council be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.
Neither the Council is to be liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party expressing any interest in or participating in this procurement process.
The Council is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. All information received will be dealt with in accordance with that Act and information to which the environmental information regulations apply will be dealt with in accordance with those regulations.
The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (as amended) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be started within 30 days beginning with the date when the aggrieved party first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. The Court may extend the time limit for starting proceedings where the Court considers that there is a good reason for doing so but not so as to permit proceedings to be started more than 3 months after that date. Where a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the contracting authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may only award damages or, where the contract award procedures have not been followed correctly, declare the contract to be ‘ineffective’.