Employer’s Agent Framework North of England
Services may include (without limitation) drafting project plans, managing site acquisition, building and scoping design and planning services, procurement of developers, preparing employer’s requirements.
United Kingdom-Carlisle: Construction supervision services
2015/S 088-158991
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Two Castles Housing Association Limited for itself and acting as a Central Purchasing Body on behalf of its present and future development partners comprising of local authorities, ALMOs and registered providers of social housing who access social housing grant in the North of England (defined as within an 80 mile radius of Carlisle and a 100 mile radius of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne).
3 Castle Street
Contact point(s): Two Castles Housing Association Limited
For the attention of: Rob Brittain and/or Greg Denwood
CA3 8SY Carlisle
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: euprocurement@twocastles.org.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.twocastles.org.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
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UNITED KINGDOM
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 12: Architectural services; engineering services and integrated engineering services; urban planning and landscape engineering services; related scientific and technical consulting services; technical testing and analysis services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Various locations throughout the North of England within an 80 miles radius Carlisle and a 100 mile radius of Newcastle upon Tyne.
NUTS code
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
Framework agreement with a single operator
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 4
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 225 000 and 525 000 GBP
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Services may include (without limitation) drafting project plans, managing site acquisition, building and scoping design and planning services, procurement of developers, preparing employer’s requirements and tender documentation, acting as Employer’s Agent/Client Representative under the Building Contract/Development Agreement, managing handover, benchmarking performance and organising post project completion reviews.
It is important to the Contracting Authority to achieve value for money on all its development projects and therefore the selected consultants must be able to demonstrate experience of utilising robust benchmarking tools to test value for money at each stage of the development process and using complex and innovative development fee structures. The Framework will be divided in to 2 lots; each Lot will be awarded a non-exclusive Framework Agreement. 1 consultant shall be appointed for each Lot. The same consultant will not be appointed for both Lot 1 and Lot 2. Lot 1 is for a Strategic and Project Employer’s Agent to oversee the implementation of the development programme and Lot 2 is for a Project Employer’s Agent to be employed on a project by project basis to fulfil the role of Employer’s Agent/Client Representative under the Building Contract/ Development Agreement. The Strategic and Project Employer’s Agent will be required to fulfil the role of Project Employer’s Agent on individual projects. If a consultant is successfully appointed to Lot 1, their tender for Lot 2 will be automatically disqualified.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
71520000, 71521000, 71530000, 71540000, 71541000, 72224000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Range: between 225 000 and 525 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Information about lots
Lot No: 1Lot title: Strategic and Project Employer’s Agent
1)Short description
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
45111000
3)Quantity or scope
Range: between 135 000 and 315 000 GBP
Lot No: 2Lot title: Project Employer’s Agent
1)Short description
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
45111000
3)Quantity or scope
Range: between 90 000 and 210 000 GBP
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As set out in ITQ.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Applicants will be required to complete a Initial Tender questionnaire (ITQ) and respond to an Invitation to Tender (ITT) consistent with the provisions of Directive 2004/18/EEC and amending legislation. The ITQ and ITT are available as detailed in VI.3. The ITQ and ITT must be returned by the date stipulated in IV.3.4.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award any Framework Agreement pursuant to this procurement exercise and/or to abandon this procurement exercise at any time and/or to award a contract for part of the works at its sole discretion. The Contracting Authority shall have no liability whatsoever to any applicant or tenderer as a result of its exercise of its discretion. For avoidance of doubt, all costs incurred by any applicant and/or tenderer before signature of any Framework Agreement with the Contracting Authority shall be incurred entirely at that applicants/tenderer’s risk. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to award none or all of the lots.
The Contracting Authority will make the ITT and ITQ available for download on its website (http://www.twocastles.org.uk/).
The Framework Agreement may be subject to extension at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
Royal Courts of Justice
The Strand
MC2A 2LL London
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 2079476000
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
Cabinet Office
SW1A 2AS London
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1603704999
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: