Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-02
Buyer: The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of The University of Cambridge
Country: UK
Region: East Anglia
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 71210000 | 71220000 | 71330000
Submission deadline: 2016-08-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University is seeking to appoint an architect-led team to undertake the master planning of a number of important sites on the Hills Road side of Cambridge Biomedical Campus. It is intended that this master planning study will establish a framework within which the University can subsequently develop world-class accommodation for the School of Clinical Medicine, including teaching, research and administration facilities. It is the aspiration that among the research accommodation will be new facilities for the University's Institute of Public Health and also a state-of-the-art neuro-sciences hub. In formulating principles for development, the masterplan would embrace the following objectives:
— Providing a high-quality environment for researchers, students, patients and visitors, with new amenities and better public realm.
— Improving the arrival experience for staff, patients and visitors, taking into account travel and transport requirements, access and circulation (a number of the sites are at the main entrance to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus from Hills Road).
— Enhance connectivity on the campus generally, and in particular between University activities, though also with an eye to establishing better interfaces between University research on the 1 hand and clinical and commercial activities on Campus on the other.
— Bringing forward sustainable development, with particular emphasis on achieving site energy infrastructure including, where possible, renewable energy technologies, and in the expectation that development at the sites will achieve a minimum rating of BREEAM excellent.
The University and the Trust would also like to secure the potential to include within the scope of the study several key Trust sites, also around the front of the Campus. The Trust is currently developing its new clinical strategy, which it expects to publish in September/October 2016, and at that stage will be in a position to decide whether it would like these sites included.
The University is seeking to appoint an architect-led team to undertake the master planning of a number of important sites on the Hills Road side of Cambridge Biomedical Campus. It is intended that this master planning study will establish a framework within which the University can subsequently develop world-class accommodation for the School of Clinical Medicine, including teaching, research and administration facilities. It is the aspiration that among the research accommodation will be new facilities for the University's Institute of Public Health and also a state-of-the-art neuro-sciences hub.
The University of Cambridge is not a public body within the meaning of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council) and is not subject to the procurement legislation. Where the University advertises contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, it does so on a voluntary basis and does not undertake any obligation to comply with the procurement legislation. The University reserves its rights in full to adapt or step outside the procedures in the procurement legislation as the University considers necessary.
Information about the tender process to be followed does not amount to a legally binding offer by the University to follow the process so described. The University reserves the right not to follow or to modify the procedures as the University considers necessary.
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofcambridge in order to receive documentation. After registering the tender documentation can then be downloaded. All tender responses and any supporting documentation must be submitted through this system. There must be no postal correspondence from bidders unless agreed with the University. Tenders shall not be sent and will not be accepted by fax or email.
For stage 1 of this process applications are invited in the form of an expression of interest which comprises an Expression of Interest (EOI) Document and short PQQ (Pre-qualification Questionnaire). From those submitting an EOI and PQQ, up to 5 teams will be selected to proceed to a 2nd stage where they will be requested to respond to an Invitation to Tender (ITT), provide further written evidence of their suitability for this project and attend a final interview with the Jury Panel. Following final interviews a winner will be selected. An overview of and further details regarding the anticipated 2nd stage requirements and ITT are available from the University's In-Tend portal. Competitors must register on In-Tend, a web-based tendering system, https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofcambridge/ Once registered, Competitors will be able to express interest in this project via In-Tend and download the PQQ and EOI documentation.