Published date: 17 September 2024
Last edited date: 10 October 2024
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Contract summary
Industry
Construction work - 45000000
Location of contract
England
Value of contract
£20,430,000
Procurement reference
KENT001-DN742811-20238342
Published date
17 September 2024
Closing date
25 October 2024
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
28 April 2025
Contract end date
8 September 2025
Contract type
Works
Procedure type
Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)
Anyone may ask to participate, but only those who are pre-selected will be invited to submit initial tenders and to negotiate.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Kent County Council (KCC) is the largest local authority in England covering an area
of 3,500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over £1bn on goods and services
and a population of 1.6m. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic
services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with the NHS Kent and Medway
Clinical Commissioning Group, 12 district councils, and 289 parish/town councils. KCC
consists of four directorates:
- Adult Social Care and Health;
- Children, Young People and Education;
- Growth, Environment and Transport; and
- Strategic and Corporate Services.
This service is being commissioned on behalf of the Growth, Environment and Transport
directorate.
The scheme requires the construction of a new tunnel on the Bead Road in Kent. Fastrack Bean Road Tunnel is broadly a new 75m long tunnel (technically an underpass due to short length) through the chalk spine under the B255 Bean Road between Whitecliffe (former Eastern Quarry) and Bluewater Shopping Centre, serving to directly connect the shopping centre to the new Whitecliffe development and Ebbsfleet International Railway Station. It will form part of the Fastrack bus rapid transit system within Kent Thameside. The tunnel will house a 3.5m wide Bi-directional Fastrack busway linking Whitecliffe and Bluewater, as well as providing a combined footway / cycleway and footway linking the Whitecliffe and Bluewater as part of the Ebbsfleet Garden City green corridor network.
Project value is £25.5m with construction cost budget of circa. £20.43m
For any Supplier who wishes to apply, the tender documentation is available via the Kent Business Portal (www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk). The documentation will need to be downloaded and submitted back to the Council via the Kent Business Portal.
Please direct all communication via the Kent Business Portal which can be found at the following web address: www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk. Any communication outside of this will be redirected to the Kent Business Portal. Please note that you will have to register to use the portal.
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Previous notice about this procurement
- Opportunity
- Published 17 September 2024, last edited 3 October 2024
About the buyer
Contact name
Laura Garay
Address
Sessions House
Maidstone
ME14 1XQ
United Kingdom
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