Contract award notice – utilities
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6GA
UK
Contact person: Chris Simmons
E-mail: Chris.Simmons@hs2.org.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.hs2.org.uk/
I.6) Main activity
Railway services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Post Excavation Services
Reference number: 2190
II.1.2) Main CPV code
71351914
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Post Excavation Services contract has been awarded to Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd to deliver the final stages of historic environment investigation. The HS2 Project presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore the country’s past, through the UK’s largest ever linear infrastructure project.
The appointed Supplier will provide historic environment and project management expertise to deliver HS2’s end-to-end post-excavation programme, including the analysis, dissemination, publication and archiving of HS2’s historic environment assets from along the line of route.
In procuring this contract HS2 Ltd is delivering commitments made by the Secretary of State for Transport with regard to historic environment, through a programme of post-excavation that provides public benefit and realises HS2’s archaeological legacy. The key contract objectives are to enhance knowledge by:
• contributing to key questions about prehistory and history;
• testing interpretative concepts and methodological techniques; and
• challenging the way that the historic environment we investigate and interpret the past.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
55 000 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Post Excavation Services contract has been awarded to Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd to deliver the final stages of historic environment investigation. The HS2 Project presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore the country’s past, through the UK’s largest ever linear infrastructure project.
The appointed Supplier will provide historic environment and project management expertise to deliver HS2’s end-to-end post-excavation programme, including the analysis, dissemination, publication and archiving of HS2’s historic environment assets from along the line of route.
In procuring this contract HS2 Ltd is delivering commitments made by the Secretary of State for Transport with regard to historic environment, through a programme of post-excavation that provides public benefit and realises HS2’s archaeological legacy. The key contract objectives are to enhance knowledge by:
• contributing to key questions about prehistory and history;
• testing interpretative concepts and methodological techniques; and
• challenging the way that the historic environment we investigate and interpret the past.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical Questions
/ Weighting: 60
Quality criterion: Social Value
/ Weighting: 10
Price
/ Weighting:
30
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
The contract has been awarded for an initial period of 72 months, which the option to extend for a further 72 months via single or multiple fixed terms, at the sole discretion of HS2 Ltd.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
There is no guarantee, express or implied, that appointed Supplier will receive any, or a particular volume or value of work. The estimated value quoted in this Contract Notice includes allowance for the maximum extension option.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Negotiated with call for competition
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2022/S 000-010175
IV.2.9) Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: c1000_3811
Title: Post Excavation Services
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
12/09/2024
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd
65 Sussex Street
Glasgow
G41 1DX
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 55 000 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be subcontracted
Value or proportion likely to be subcontracted to third parties
Proportion: 15 %
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The High Court of England and Wales
Royal Courts of Justice, Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
Telephone: +44 20794760000
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
13/09/2024