Neighbourhood Planning Support Services

Concepts

• administration services
• neighbourhood planning areas
• neighbourhood planning groups
• similar technical support services
• other additional services
• mapping services
• technical support
• comprehensive exit services
• data collection and management services
• the neighbourhood planning activities

Location

LONDON

Description

The Contract shall involve the provision of the key services below. (a) Basic support - including online resources, expert advice, and networking facilitation; (b) Grants - provision of both basic and additional grants to Customers to fund the neighbourhood planning activities; (c) Technical Support - provision of specialist, Technical Support packages to deliver specific outputs linked to Ministerial priorities on housing, design and supporting communities to establish neighbourhood planning groups in unparished areas. The Contract may also include potential Neighbourhood Development Orders (NDO) and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) pilots and other additional services as follows: (a) provision of data collection and publication of housing supply and delivery (completions) in neighbourhood planning areas; (b) provision of data collection and management services for planning related information, including access to open data and maximising the use of digital tools; (c) provision of publically accessible planning-related digital tools and mapping services; and/or (d) provision of similar Technical Support services to relevant stakeholders for the purposes of preparing Local and other statutory plans. The budget for the initial term of the Contract is 22,409,000.00 GBP incl. VAT. Where it is considered necessary to satisfy genuine, unexpected and robustly evidenced increases or changes in demand, the Authority reserves the right to re-profile, increase or decrease annual budgets beyond the anticipated figures stated. The total value of the contract stated at V.2.4 reflects both the right to re-profile and the option to extend the initial 4-year contract term for a further year. The procurement exercise was conducted under the Light Touch Regime as set out in Regulations 74 to 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR).

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 75100000 - Administration services
• 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

Indicators

• Contract modified due to additional needs.

Legal Justification

The modification is pursuant to Reg R72(1)(b) of Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Transition to a new supplier / contract requires significant and complex activity which is expected to take several months, and potentially includes: staff transfer under TUPE; transfer of related IPR/materials and large volumes of customer data; refinement / testing of operational and customer facing processes; co-ordination with the interdependent Grant Administration contract; co-ordination and communication with service customers.