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 is embarking on a programme to create a wholly new campus on a brown field site providing state-of-the-art facilities and technology that will ensure all students have access to extensive and high quality teaching facilities, library, lT suites, studios, innovative learning spaces, laboratories, residential accommodation and social facilities. These do not form part of this procurement.

The new campus will comprise higher education buildings, student halls of residence, energy centre (the Energy Centre ) and fallow space available for leisure, retail, commercial development and University future expansion. The overall campus development is being delivered through a number of packages of work, of which the Energy Centre is one specific package/contract. The University has appointed an infrastructure contractor whose scope includes the design, build and installation of the below ground services and roads inclusive of the district heating network to a point on the boundary of the Energy Centre site area.

The University has appointed a separate academic and public realm contractor to deliver the academic buildings and to take overall main/principal contractor responsibility for the shared construction areas. A separate procurement exercise is currently under way for the design and construction of 1 200 student residences.

The Energy Centre will be located at the Waterside Development Site, Northampton. The land where the Energy Centre is to be built is owned by the University and can be found at the far southern end of North/South Road. The site boundary is bordered by a car park access road to the north, a campus road to the east, an electrical substation and ownership boundary to the south, and a surface car park to the west.

The scope of works for the Energy Centre contract will include:

— Design and construction of an energy centre building on a brownfield site with associated service yard;

— Design, procure, install and set to work heat generation and associated plant as required to supply and maintain the low temperature hot water (LTHW) district heating network;

— Connection to all required incoming services from locations in near proximity to the Energy Centre site boundary including data connections back to the plant rooms in each of the academic and student residential buildings;

— Design and installation of all signage to the building;

— The Energy Centre contractor will be responsible for raising the site levels from the remediation level to the finished level, and installation of associated hard and soft landing;

— Maintenance, operation and campus commissioning support from practical completion (‘PC’) in June 2017 until September 2018, when the University welcomes its first student intake;

— Defects liability period extending from PC in June 2017 to 31.8.2019;

— Management of the discharge of planning conditions;

— Liaison with building control throughout the project duration to obtain building regulations approval;

— Training of University staff both at PC in June 2017 and the student intake in September 2018; and

— Completion and handover of completed Health and Safety file in accordance with the University's requirements.

The Energy Centre contractor will be required to complete the design from the end of RIBA Stage 3 and deliver a fully operational Energy Centre by June 2017, for use by other contractors to test and commission their buildings. Practical completion of the works will be granted at this point.

The Energy Centre contractor will appoint a design team to complete the technical design from the end of RIBA stage 3. Should the Energy Centre contractor wish to approach the client design team directly to carry out this design work, they may do so.

The Energy Centre contractor will then remain on site under the terms of the NEC3 form of design and build contract (in the form to be issued with the invitation to Tender) in order to undertake the operation and maintenance of the Energy Centre between June 2017 and September 2018, at which point the University will take responsibility. They will also work with the other main contractors in the commissioning of the buildings and connection to the Energy Centre.

An extended defects liability period will start from award of PC in June 2017 and conclude on 31.8.2019 (The system will be monitored in use during this time to allow seasonal commissioning). This extended period is required to ensure the facility is under a defects liability period for a full academic cycle when the buildings will be in use.

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

The University reserves the right to require parent company guarantees, bonds, or other forms of security.

III.1.2)

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

Set out 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

The University reserves the right to require a bidder consortium for form a single legal entity or to require joint and several liability.

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

Set out in the MOI/PQQ.

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

Set out in the MOI/PQQ.

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

ITT238

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

Procurement documents are published on the following website:

http://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 Pre-Qualification Questionnaire(PQQ) and 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.

Candidates must complete and satisfy the requirements of the PQQ published on the above website.

All PQQ submissions are to be returned as an electronic copy via the In-tend portal system (https://intendhost.co.uk/universityofnorthampton/). All PQQ submissions must be successfully uploaded onto that portal address no later than the PQQ Response Deadline, and PQQ Submissions received late may be rejected.

The University reserves the right to amend 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 candidate in response to this notice or in tendering for the proposed contract.

The Contract value at section II.2.1 is an estimate.

The University reserves the right to enter into contract itself or via an entity wholly owned by the University.

The date set out in section IV.3.5 is an estimate and may be varied by the University.

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 required by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice

ANNEX A

Additional Addresses and Contact Points

I)

Address and contact points from which further information can be obtained