New Building Housing Development - Consultancy Services

Concepts

• building services
• gosport
• gosport borough council
• consultancy services
• lead consultant
• new building housing development
• consultants
• delivery of new build
• design consultant
• affordable housing

Location

Gosport

Description

Gosport Borough Council (the Council) is inviting expressions of interest for the provision of Multi-Disciplinary Lead Consultancy Services associated with the design and delivery of new build affordable housing in the borough. The Council have identified 7no. sites that they wish to develop to provide c.36no. new dwellings over the next 3 years. Following evaluation of the SSQ's, the top scoring 5 consultants will be invited to Tender.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Council have identified 7no. sites that they wish to develop to provide c.36no. new dwellings over the next 3 years. The purpose of this procurement exercise is to appoint a lead consultant to oversee the design and delivery of the dwellings. It is anticipated that consultants would either be multi-disciplinary in nature or submit a consortium bid to cover the various work disciplines with a lead consultant nominated. The Lead Consultant would be expected to form a Consultant team to deliver the projects. It is expected that the overall project team will need to cover a range of disciplines required for delivery of the services that might include but isn’t limited to team of; • Lead Consultant / Project Manager • Architect / Design Consultant • Quantity Surveyors / Cost Consultant • Structural Engineers • Mechanical and Electrical Design Engineers • Planning consultant • Sustainability consultant / Passivhaus Designer • Principal Designer • BIM Co-ordinator Additional consultancy services and/or investigation may be required on a site by site basis. The Lead Consultant will be expected to arrange quotes for these services/works with the costs being billed through the consultant (with agreed OHP % applied). The Lead Consultant and all other consultants appointed on a sub-consultant basis will be expected to work in a spirit of partnership and collaboration. The Lead Consultant will be appointed to cover RIBA Workstages 2 through to 7 and they, in conjunction with their consultancy team will be required to undertake all tasks required to deliver the developments. The Council is committed to developing dwellings that are of high quality design and sustainable. As a minimum it is the Councils aspiration is that the dwellings are designed to a Zero Carbon Ready standard, however we wish to explore the viability of developing the sites to full Passivhaus Standards. The Council anticipates the construction cost of the 7 sites will be in the region of £5.3m and will be procured on the basis of a traditional single stage competitive tender route with fully designed schemes being provided by the Consultant. The Council is targeting to have awarded the contract by 27th September 2021 with commencement of consultancy services from 25th October 2021. Whilst the length of the contract and completion of the service will be governed by the consultants programme it is anticipated that works to the first sites would commence on site before the end of 2022.

CPV Codes

• 71315210 - Building services consultancy services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are not available.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.
• Award on basis of price and quality.