Published date: 17 December 2021

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: 26 January 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Development consultancy services - 73220000

  • Services furnished by business, professional and specialist organisations - 98110000

Location of contract

MK9 3EJ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

IT-480-175-2021-188

Published date

17 December 2021

Closing date

26 January 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

30 September 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Milton Keynes Strategy for 2050 (adopted January 2021 as an annex to the Council Plan) presents a long-term strategy for the growth of Milton Keynes borough to a population of around 410,000 people from around 270,000 today, set within a context of growth across the wider Oxford-Cambridge Arc.
As part of the Strategy, the Council sets out our intention to explore new governance and delivery models that give greater democratic control over the quality and pace of development. The Strategy states that any future arrangements should enable us to meet three principles.
Strong vision and leadership, driven by high quality community engagement
Mechanisms that enable us to secure more of the value of development and land value to create investment that can benefit the community; and
Provide the ability to look after and maintain the assets in our city well into the future as part of long-term stewardship. Strategy for 2050, January 2021, p70
To that end, Milton Keynes Council recently secured ?665k of funding from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities DLUHC to explore options for alternative approaches to delivering our long-term growth programme. This Delivery Mechanisms project is expected to last 18-30 months, in two broad phases, with the role of the Expert Advisor engaged for at least 18 months of that project.
During the first phase, the Council intends to understand existing and future barriers to delivery across the range of development sites and typologies in the growth programme; identify the requirements, capacities and resources that would best enable the delivery of high quality growth that meets the Council's ambitions, explore the full range of delivery bodies, mechanisms, partnerships and approaches that are available or could be created, and determine which mechanism, or mechanisms, are most appropriate to address our specific challenges.
In the second phase, the full range of issues relating to the establishment and operation of the preferred approach determined through phase one would be explored further through the development of a business case. The subsequent establishment and long-term operation of the proposed model is outside of the scope of this project.

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For any suppliers interested in this opportunity please visit our e-Tendering portal - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/milton-keynes/

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Ruth Holt

Address

1 Saxon Gate East
Silbury Boulevard
Milton Keynes
MK9 3EJ
United Kingdom

Telephone

01908691691

Email

Ruth.Holt@milton-keynes.gov.uk