Published date: 26 November 2019

This notice was replaced on 3 December 2019

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Opportunity (published 3 December 2019, last edited 3 December 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Public utilities - 65000000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£70,000

Procurement reference

METOFC001-DN449743-97949307

Published date

26 November 2019

Closing date

10 January 2020

Contract start date

28 January 2020

Contract end date

20 March 2020

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

This project covers the undertaking of works to upgrade to the water softening capacity associated to a pre-existing borehole operated at our Exeter headquarters site.
The enhanced system shall deliver water softening capacity of 8m3/hr, and shall include the following functionality;

• A bulk salt saturator
• Increased water softening capacity to a maximum of 8m3/hr
• New more resilient pumping system
• New kiosk

Whereby, the successful contractor will be required to;
• design,
• manufacture,
• test (offsite),
• deliver,
• install (including associated ground works, electrical, and plumbing services)
• test and
• commissioning

of a fully functional solution, suitable for retrofit within the confines of the existing system, and performance requirements detailed within the tender documentation..


More information

Additional text

The tender documents are available via the Met Office's eTendering Solution; ProContract. Whereby, interested parties can search for the opportunity on ProContract via the following link; https://procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities/Index?tabName=opportunities&resetFilter=True . The Opportunity is listed as; "Enhanced Water Treatment Capacity for Existing Borehole" (Tender Ref : DN449743) under the "Met Office" Portal or Organisation drop down menus. Selecting the tender by clicking on the Title in blue, will bring up brief details of the requirement and timescales, and a link top right to "Login and register Interest in this opportunity". For existing register users of ProContract you can follow the instructions and Login and register interest. For new users of ProContract you first need to "Register free" to create your supplier profile system, and can do this by the "Register free" link under the "New to ProContract?" header. Once you have logged into the system, you will need to click the 'Register Interest' button for the opportunity (tender) itself. This should result in a pop up window, whereby, within this pop you will find a direct link to go straight to the tender page, or alternatively should wish to log back into the ProContract system at a later point in time, you can get to the same tender page via the "My Activities" area of the portal, which lists all your current live opportunities, and is accessible from the portal homepage (once logged in).On the tender page to access the tender documents themselves you will need to click "Open" to access the tender detail page,where you will find the tender documentation attached in pdf. word. and excel formats.
In addition to the Background information around the Existing Power Management System, as presented in Annex A of this tender, we are proposing to hold a site visit here in Exeter, on Thursday 12th December 2019, so that interested parties can review the current infrastructure, in addition to the document provided. Should bidders wish to attend the Site Visit on Thursday 12th September, please can you email simon.denton@metoffice.gov.uk no later than 17:00 hours on Monday 9th December 2019, confirming their interest in attending, and the name (first name / surname), and nationality of proposed attendee. Note: No more than two (2) attendees per bidder can attend the site visit.
Further details of the visit schedule, will be provided to those parties interested in attending.


About the buyer

Contact name

Simon Denton

Address

Fitzroy Road
Exeter
EX1 3PB
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1392886839

Email

simon.denton@metoffice.gov.uk

Website

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk