The Executive Office

Castle Buildings, Stormont Estate

Belfast

BT4 3GS

UK

Telephone: +44 2890816555

E-mail: construct.info@finance-ni.gov.uk

NUTS: UKN

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps

Address of the buyer profile: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps

II.1.1) Title

Reference number: 2926458

II.1.2) Main CPV code

71220000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

This commission is for an integrated consultant team (ICT) to provide concept design and cost input services to outline business cases. The services are to be provided in accordance with RIBA Plan of Work 2013, stages 0-2 only, for a number of proposed Urban Villages Capital projects located in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. The specific stage input is stage 0 Strategic Definition, stage 1 preparation and brief and stage 2 concept design, for a number of Urban Villages Initiative projects including various community related building types, parks, public realm environmental schemes, vacant/derelict sites, etc. Specific employer tasks are provided in the tender documentation Scope of Service Annex A — currently provided in draft for information purposes. The contract will operate for a period of 2 years with the option for the employer to extend annually, subject to satisfactory ongoing performance, for a further two periods of 1 year each up to a maximum of 4 years.

II.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: 243 600.00  GBP

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

III.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

List and brief description of conditions:

In order for a contractor/consultant to be eligible to participate in this competition they must hold licenses, accreditations or certificates for specific categories and sectors as set out below: please refer to the pre-qualification documentation.

III.1.2) Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

III.1.3) Technical and professional ability

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

III.2.1) Information about a particular profession

Participation is reserved to a particular profession: Yes

Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision:

The economic operator team must be made up of the following disciplines: architect, quantity surveyor, civil engineer, landscape architect, principal designer.

III.2.2) Contract performance conditions

The economic operators’ performance on this contract will be regularly monitored. As part of its contract management procedures, the contracting authority will use the protocol for managing poor supplier performance contained in procurement guidance Note PGN 01/12 — Contract management principles and procedures: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/publications/procurement-guidance-note-0112-contract-management-principles-and-procedures If an economic operator has received more than one current notice of written warning or a notice of unsatisfactory performance, the contracting authority, at its discretion, can consider an economic operator’s exclusion from future procurements, being undertaken on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively. A list of bodies subject to NIPPP can be viewed at: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/list-public-bodies-which-ni-public-procurement-policy-applies

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Restricted procedure

IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement with a single operator.

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 29/07/2020

Local time: 15:00

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

EN

IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Duration in months: 4 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

VI.4.1) Review body

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: this procurement is governed by the Public Contract Regulations 2015 and provides for economic operators who have suffered or who risk suffering loss or damage as a consequence of an alleged breach of duty owned in accordance with Regulation 91 to start proceedings in the High Court. A standstill period will commence at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers .That notification will provide information on the award decision .The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the required decision before the contract is entered into. Any proceedings relating to any perceived non-compliance with the relevant law must be started within 30 days, beginning with the date when the economic operator first knew or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. (A court may extend the time to 3 months where the court considers that there is a good reason for doing so).