Buckinghamshire Highways Term Maintenance Services Contract

Concepts

• highways and roads
• buckinghamshire highways term maintenance services contract
• buckinghamshire council
• aylesbury
• highway authority
• term maintenance contract
• term consultancy contract
• buckinghamshire
• professional services
• winter maintenance services

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

This Contract Notice relates to the Term Maintenance Contract (item 1 below) only. Buckinghamshire Council (the Council) is the Highway Authority responsible for maintaining the highway network in Buckinghamshire. This includes the maintenance, renewal and improvement of carriageways, footways, cycleways, structures, drainage systems, vehicle restraint systems, street lighting, traffic signals and other associated assets; and the carrying out of winter maintenance services. The Council’s current integrated services contract is due to expire on 31 March 2023 and therefore the Council is commencing the procurement of its replacement service provision. Following a fundamental review and wide consultation, the Council has identified the following new service delivery model: 1. A Term Maintenance Contract to include routine and reactive maintenance, minor improvement works and winter services. 2. A Term Consultancy Contract to include design and other professional services. 3. Two separate framework arrangements each of a maximum 4-year duration. Framework One – Minor Works Lot 1: Conventional surfacing work Lot 2: Surface treatments including surface dressing Lot 3: Minor works Framework Two – Major works This Contract Notice relates to the Term Maintenance Contract (item 1) only (“the Contract”) and the Council anticipates that calls for competition for the other contracts will be published over the course of the next twelve months.. It is expected that the Contract will be for an initial term of eight (8) years subject to extension (see II.2.11 below) and be based on the NEC4 Term Service Contract (as appropriately amended and augmented by the Council). The Council intends that the successful Tenderer will form part of an alliance arrangement between the Council and one or more of the other highways contractors appointed by the Council as set out above. Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) as amended may apply to this contract. Further details of the proposed works and services forming the scope of the Contract and its commercial terms are set out in the procurement documents, and full details will appear in the tender documentation accompanying the invitation to submit an initial tender.

Total Quantity or Scope

1. A Term Maintenance Contract to include routine and reactive maintenance, minor improvement works and winter services. 2. A Term Consultancy Contract to include design and other professional services. 3. Two separate framework arrangements each of a maximum 4-year duration. … Lot 1: Conventional surfacing work Lot 2: Surface treatments including surface dressing Lot 3: Minor works Framework Two – Major works … 1) only (“the Contract”) and the Council anticipates that calls for competition for the other contracts will be published over the course of the next twelve months.. … Additional information: Applicants are referred to VI.3) Additional information in this Contract Notice below.

Renewal Options

The Council intends that the Contract will have an initial term of eight (8) years with a right to extend that initial term by up to two further periods of two years each (leading to a maximum total extension of four (4) years, subject to the requirements and procedure set out in the procurement documents. The period of time set out in II.2.7 is therefore inclusive of the initial term and the maximum possible contract extension.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 45233000 - Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads
• 34928500 - Street-lighting equipment
• 34928510 - Street-lighting columns
• 34928520 - Lampposts
• 34928530 - Street lamps
• 45233100 - Construction work for highways, roads
• 45233139 - Highway maintenance work
• 45233210 - Surface work for highways
• 90620000 - Snow-clearing services
• 90630000 - Ice-clearing services
• 90640000 - Gully cleaning and emptying services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Options are available.
• Renewals are not available.
• Professional qualifications are sought.
• Staff qualifications are relevant.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** 1. To express interest in the Contract, Applicants must complete and submit the SQ through the Portal no later than the deadline in IV.2.2. Please note that Applicants must allow sufficient time to upload their SQ Responses as the Council is under no obligation to consider SQ Responses submitted after that deadline. 2. In order to submit an SQ Response, Applicants must register on the Buckinghamshire Business Portal if they have not already done so. 3. For technical assistance relating to the Buckinghamshire Business Portal , please contact 0330 005 0352. 4. An Applicant may be a single organisation or a consortium. In addition, Applicants may be entitled to rely on third parties in order to achieve the minimum standards set out in the SQ Guidance. Applicants are referred to the SQ Guidance for requirements that apply in these cases. 5. All financial values in this Contract Notice are estimated and may be subject to change. The estimated total value of the Contract in II.1.5 provides for and includes the value of the optional maximum extension period. Applicants are also referred to the procurement documents for further details about the likely values of work under the Contract and in particular, that given its nature as a term service contract there will be no guarantee of a particular volume or value of work under the Contract. 6. All dates set out in this Contract Notice are based on the Council’s current procurement programme which it reserves the right to change and update at any stage during the procurement. Such dates may therefore change. 7. Although the work under the Contract is categorised for the purposes of this Contract Notice as a works contract, Applicants shall note that it will contain significant elements of services and supplies. 8. A response to this Contract Notice does not guarantee that an Applicant will be invited to submit an initial tender. The Council is not bound to enter into any contract arising out of the procedures envisaged by this Contract Notice and may vary its requirements or procedure at any time. The Council reserves the right to abandon, delay or postpone this procurement at any time. Applicants are referred to the SQ Guidance for full instructions and conditions of participation in this procurement. 9. Applicants will be solely responsible and liable for all costs associated and arising out of or in connection with responding to this Contract Notice and the SQ and with submitting any tender, howsoever such costs are incurred. 10. In relation to II.2.6 estimated total value, this is the minimum value. The estimated total value is a range from £250,000,000 to £300,000,000 million and this has been calculated on a range of £21-£28 million per annum over a full 12 year period. 11. Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) as amended may apply to this contract.