CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

Execution		Design and execution
Execution, by whatever means

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The University of Northampton (University) are seeking expressions of interest in the funding, design, build and operation of an energy centre to provide heat and power to their new Waterside Campus development in Northampton.

The Waterside Campus is in multiple private ownership with West Northamptonshire Development Corporation owning a small parcel. The site will comprise Higher Education buildings, student accommodation and fallow space available for leisure, retail, commercial development and University future expansion.

Design work undertaken to date has concluded that the University buildings will be heated by a central energy centre. The energy centre will provide heat to each University building on Waterside Campus via a district heating network. This network will be designed to allow it to be extended to serve the areas designated for expansion.

An infrastructure contract is being separately procured by the University which will include the design build and installation of the below ground services and roads inclusive of the district heating network.

The energy supply company shall have the option to adopt the relevant pipework — any potential benefits of this are to be discussed in dialogue.

The University academic building construction will start on site in September 2016 and will be complete by summer 2018.

The University will fund, procure (under a separate procurement) and operate the University academic and residential buildings.

The University are intending to appoint an energy supply company party to fund, design, build and operate the energy centre which will export heat and electricity to the University buildings. It would also encourage the appointed energy supply company to consider exporting power and heat to other consumers should the fallow areas of the Waterside Campus be developed in future.

It is not proposed to offer export of power and heat to any third party outside the University other than third parties who occupy development plots on the Waterside Campus and the grid.

It is currently envisaged that the energy centre will operate on the basis, that the initial investment by the energy supply company will be recovered over the lifetime of the facility via an energy supply agreement with the University and any other third parties utilising the Waterside Campus site.

As the buildings are not yet complete and as a result there is no historical data on energy consumption available for the Waterside Campus, the University wishes to discuss its requirements, any assumptions, and potential financial models with respondents during a dialogue process.

The proposed energy centre would take HV electrical and medium pressure gas incoming services and supply HV to the University ring main and heat to the University district heating system. There are no boilers proposed within the various buildings and therefore all heat will be derived from the energy centre.

Current estimates of initial peak connected load are 11.2 MW thermal, 4.5 MW electrical, these figures do not take account of diversity. The planned buildings are a mixture of academic and student residences with a combined area of approximately 65 000 m2. There is space on the development for future residences, academic facilities and commercial facilities. The district networks have been sized sufficiently to accommodate the current and future anticipated loads.

The University buildings are being developed on the basis of receiving district heat with a carbon factor of 0.1189 kg CO2/kWh. This is contributing to achieving BREEAM Excellent, complying with building regulations Part L2a and meeting the planning requirements for the development. The buildings assume that all electricity consumed has the same carbon factor as grid supplied electricity, therefore all carbon benefit of the CHP is included in the district heating supply.

The carbon factor has been calculated on the assumption that a gas fired CHP(s) are provided within the energy centre operating for at least 6 500 hours per year.

Utility connections to the energy centre have been applied for and agreed in principle. These will be provided as part of the infrastructure package to the boundary of the energy centre plot.

The University intends to provide the following technical information at the next stage:

— Schedule buildings, areas, use and approximate peak connected loads. (Current and future)

— Infrastructure drawings/specification (district mains, HV etc.);

— Details of utility connections;

— Copy of information provided to planners;

— Current proposed building LTHW and Electrical schematics;

— Details of required carbon performance and district performance (temperatures, pressure etc.), all included within a performance specification.

As the buildings are not yet complete, and as a result there is no historical data on energy consumption available for the Waterside Campus, the University intends to follow the competitive dialogue process in order to enable the University to discuss specific issues, including possible financial models, with energy supply companies. The University intends to ask bidders who are invited to participate in dialogue for their outline solutions, before down-selecting to a smaller number of potential providers for the remainder of the dialogue. More detail on the proposed process will be provided in the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

These will be detailed in the tender documents.

III.1.2)

Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

These will be detailed in the tender documents.

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

These will be detailed in the tender documents.

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

To be set out in the PQQ document.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

Criteria to be set out in the tender documents.

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

ITT220

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

All documentation in support of PQQ submissions to be returned as an electronic copy via the In- tend portal system (https://in tendhost.co.uk/universityofnorthampton/)

In addition 2 CDs or Memory Sticks containing copies of the Tender and supporting information should be delivered separately to the address provided above at the same time/date noted above.

The University reserves the right to reduce the scope of the contract, cancel or amend the tendering process at any stage, not to award the contract in whole or in part and does not bind itself to accept any tender. The University shall not be liable in any circumstances for any costs or expenses incurred by any prospective energy supply company in response to this notice, or in tendering for the proposed contract.

Applicants must complete and satisfy the requirements of the pre- qualification questionnaire (PQQ) published on the following website https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofnorthampton/ Click on the current tender's link and you will be able to register your organisation with our e-tendering system. Once the registration has been accepted and you have received your login details by email, you can login to view and download the PQQ documentation in the My Tenders section of the website. The date specified in IV.3.4 is the deadline date/time for the submission of a completed PQQ.

Any value ranges specified or figures given are an estimate and indicative only.

Transparency — The University is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

The procurement process will incorporate a standstill period at the point that notification of the proposed award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide information on the award decision as is required by the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended). The standstill period provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to review the award decision before the contract is entered into.

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice