Published date: 20 April 2018

Last edited date: 20 April 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 7 May 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Consultative engineering and construction services - 71310000

Location of contract

SG17 5TQ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

CBC-0862-T-CE

Published date

20 April 2018

Closing date

7 May 2018

Contract start date

18 May 2018

Contract end date

18 August 2018

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) wish to invite bidders to tender for Business Case Development Manager and Healthcare Estate Planner, Professional Consultancy Services to assist CBC to procure two Integrated Health & Care Hubs with a combined capital cost of £35m.

The Council is seeking a resource to produce Outline Business Cases and Full Business Cases for the capital development of Two Integrated Health & Care Hubs. The following service is being sought at:

Chiltern Vale Locality, Dunstable.
Ivel Valley Locality, Biggleswade.

CBC intend to make separate appointments for the Design Stage and the Construction Stage of the projects. It is proposed that CBC appoint the Business Case Development Manager and Healthcare Estate Planner Advisor as a Professional Consultant.

CBC maintain the right to not proceed beyond Feasibility, or suspend or terminate the project at any stage, whereupon only the fee applicable will be paid to the consultant for completed work under that current stage.

Should CBC decide to move at completion of any stage, to a Design and Build strategy, the professional consultants name will be provided to the Design and Build Contractor, but may not necessarily be selected in a novated consultant role.

The OBC's to be developed concurrently. Following approval of the OBC's, the FBC's to be developed concurrently.

CBC propose the following target durations for production of the business case stages to be:
Outline Business Cases, 3 months.
Full Business Cases, 6 months.

The Council will provide as much support and information as it can in order to help guide you through the Tender process. Questions asked together with the Council's response will be made available to all tenderers to ensure a fair and consistent approach to all.

If there is anything you are not sure of or need clarification on, please contact us using the Correspondence facility on the In-tend portal.

Last day for receiving questions 12:00 noon 02/05/2018 - All questions and answers and any updates will be issued as a 'Clarification' through the In-Tend portal.

Completed Tenders and attachments should be submitted electronically, by the due date via our \"In-tend\" electronic tendering system. Tenders must be uploaded via the \"My Return\" section of the system. Tenders submitted through the correspondence facility will not be considered.

Your Tender must be submitted via the In-Tend system by no later than 12:00 noon 08/05/2018. Tenders received after that time will be excluded.

More information

Links

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To express an interest, please log in or register on our electronic tendering system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/centralbedfordshire in order to view the necessary tendering documents and respond accordingly.
Please note that once you have registered on In-tend a separate action (expressing an Interest) is required to access the documents, you must click on the actual Tender you wish to access. We accept no liability if you have not expressed an interest in the tender.


Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Claire Edmunds

Address

Priory House
Monks Walk
Shefford
SG17 5TQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

03003004853

Email

claire.edmunds@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk