Prior information notice

This notice is for prior information only

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

I.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions

I.5) Main activity

Other: Other

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.2) Description

II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:

01/09/2021

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3) Additional information

This procurement covers health sector requirements in England (Lots 1-3); airfield related works in the UK (Lot 4) and general construction works exceeding £80M in the UK (Lot 5).

The framework is not intended to provide the main sourcing routes for new hospitals within the New Hospital Programme (NHP), although NHP does reserve the right to use it. Separate procurements and frameworks specifically for NHP are intended for the building of new hospitals covered by NHP.

Building on past iterations of the framework, P23 brings the latest best practice in construction methods to the NHS and focuses on delivering greener facilities, reducing carbon emissions and promoting social value.

P23 includes 3 England-wide, value based lots (1) <£20m (2) £20-£70 (3) £70m+. Lot 1 is split geographically across the 7 NHS England and NHS Improvement regions, encouraging the inclusion of more regional and medium sized firms and increasing capacity.

CWAS2 continues the principles of, and will run alongside, the Construction Works and Associated Services framework (RM6088) to provide additional market capacity in the areas covered by lots 4 & 5.

In line with the Construction Playbook, the frameworks realise the benefits of close collaboration and alliancing in terms of procurement, framework management and project delivery.

This Prior Information Notice is to alert those within the Construction market of this upcoming procurement.

Crown Commercial Service intends to hold information webinars following the launch of the procurement. If you are interested in attending a webinar session please express your interest by emailing CWAS2-P23@crowncommercial.gov.uk no later than midday on Friday 27 August 2021. Further details will be provided to you.

Your email must clearly state: the name of your organisation, and contact details for the individual(s) who will attend the webinar.

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is [https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk].

Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.

The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS website page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/upcoming Crown for updates and monitor Tenders Electronic Daily for the publication of the contract notice.

The Cyber Essentials scheme is mandatory for Central Government Contracts which involve handling personal information and providing certain ICT products and services. The Government is taking steps to further reduce the levels of cyber security risk in its supply chain through the Cyber Essentials scheme. The scheme defines a set of controls which, when properly implemented, will provide organisations with basic protection from the most prevalent forms of threat coming from the internet.

The bidder may be awarded a contract but shall not enter into any call off contracts with buyers until they are able to demonstrate to CCS that they meet the technical requirements prescribed by the Cyber Essentials Scheme for services under and in connection with this procurement.

The service that arise from this framework will involve the supplier holding material that has been assigned a protective marking under the Government Security Classifications Scheme (April 2014) of OFFICIAL/SENSITIVE. Bidders will be required to implement their solution in accordance with the RM6267 Schedule, “Security Guidance Version 1”, to meet RM6267 requirements. This will be released at the ITT stage.

A Future Opportunity on contract finder can be found here: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Start/e465610b-5e80-433a-a338-09f8037b188c

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

21/07/2021