26013 Cambourne to Cambridge Construction Procurement

• Not divided into lots: The Council requires a single contract to ensure streamlined delivery, operational efficiency, and effective contract management. Consolidating the requirement under one contract is necessary because the requirement spans multiple disciplines and specialist areas, all of which must be coordinated to achieve cohesive outcomes. A single appointed Contractor will therefore be responsible for sourcing and managing the appropriate specialist resources and for overseeing the interfaces between disciplines within the supply chain. The Council therefore does not consider that subdivision into Lots would be appropriate, as this could increase the technical risk to delivery of the requirement and render the execution and management of the contract as disproportionately expensive to manage and the need to coordinate different Organisations for the Lots could seriously risk undermining the proper execution of the Contract and would not deliver value for money for the Council.
• How the procedure runs: This Tender Notice relates to the award of a public contract through a Competitive Flexible Procedure in accordance with section 20(1) and 20(2)(b) of the Procurement Act 2023 ("PA 2023"). For a description of the process to be followed, including conditions of participation to be applied in the selection of suppliers, the process for submitting tenders and award criteria and assessment methodology, refer to the associated tender documents made available together with this Notice. The associated tender documents include the draft invitation to tender, the draft Contract and the draft technical documents. The Council reserves its right to rely on section 24 PA 2023 to refine award criteria as part of the competitive flexible procedure. Refinements to the award criteria may include but are not limited to: - Refining award criteria weightings; - Adding sub-criteria or more detail to the sub-criteria (relevant to the existing main criteria). In addition, the Council may also rely on section 31 PA 2023 to modify the terms of the procurement as set out in this Tender Notice or the associated tender documents. The associated tender documents made available on the Portal alongside this Tender Notice are issued in draft form (save for the PSQ and PSQ Guidance which are in final form) at this stage. The Council considers the information provided in this Tender Notice and the draft associated tender documents are sufficiently clear and specific to enable Applicant's to identify the nature and scope of the Council's requirement and decide whether to submit a request to participate. This will be an iterative process, and the Council may update, refine or provide additional associated tender documents to shortlisted participating Tenderers at the next stage of the procurement process. At this next stage Tenderers may raise clarifications or propose amendments to certain specified associated tender documents or specific areas and the Council will consider and may amend/refine the associated tender documents at its discretion. The Council will not distort competition nor act unfairly and amendments will not be made to benefit just one or just a few Tenderers. Final associated tender documents will be issued to all shortlisted participating Tenderers via the portal. It is intended to procure the Works via a 2-stage tender process utilising the NEC4 Option C form of contract including X22 Early Contractor Involvement. The outline Scope for the stage 1 works includes: - • Undertake all necessary surveys • TWAO Design validation • Preliminary Design • Detailed design • Detailed construction programme • Cost management - the successful Contractor will work with the Client's commercial manager to develop the stage 2 target cost throughout the stage 1/ECI period. • Development of the target cost; Work package negotiation and procurement • all subcontract packages will be tendered on an 'open book' basis with the Client and Project Manager having full visibility of all tender returns and any adjustments, allowances, attendances etc • Preliminaries - based on resourced construction programme and staff rates included in stage 1 tender • Buildability assessments • Construction operations planning • Programme development • Logistics and access arrangements The price for the stage 1 tender for the X22/ECI works will consist of contractor's preliminaries/fee for undertaking the stage 1 works and managing the design process, design costs for surveys, investigations and scoping, TWAO Design Validation and Preliminary Design and Detailed Design. As part of the evaluation, tenderers will be required to provide fixed percentages for overheads and profit which will be applied to both stage 1 and stage 2 of the contract. As part of the tender there will also be a requirement to provide a budget price for the scheme based on the current TWAO design cost plan which will be included in the ITT pricing document and a schedule of staff rates which will be used for the stage 2 preliminaries costs. Neither of these elements will form part of the tender evaluation for stage 1.
• No preliminary market engagement: Market engagement was carried out via publication of a UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice which can be seen at https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007939-2026?origin=Dashboard. That notice is not linked to this UK4 notice as explained within this UK12: Procurement termination notice https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019610-2026?origin=Dashboard

CPV: Construction work · Engineering design services

Procedure method

Competitive flexible procedure

Legal basis

UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023

Procurement category

Works

Notice status

Closed

Procurement threshold

Above threshold (FTS publication)

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Competitive procedure

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

4 Mar 2026, 15:30 GMT

Last source update

21 May 2026, 11:47 BST

Award evaluation window

Submission end – 14 Dec 2026

Authority reference

DN804075

FTS notice number

2026/S 000-046973

Latest notice

Tender notice (UK4)

Classification (CPV)

Construction workEngineering design services

Delivery area

East of England (UKH12)

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-06625d Find a Tender

How it runs

This Tender Notice relates to the award of a public contract through a Competitive Flexible Procedure in accordance with section 20(1) and 20(2)(b) of the Procurement Act 2023 ("PA 2023").

For a description of the process to be followed, including conditions of participation to be applied in the selection of suppliers, the process for submitting tenders and award criteria and assessment methodology, refer to the associated tender documents made available together with this Notice. The associated tender documents include the draft invitation to tender, the draft Contract and the draft technical documents.

The Council reserves its right to rely on section 24 PA 2023 to refine award criteria as part of the competitive flexible procedure. Refinements to the award criteria may include but are not limited to:

• Refining award criteria weightings;
• Adding sub-criteria or more detail to the sub-criteria (relevant to the existing main criteria).

In addition, the Council may also rely on section 31 PA 2023 to modify the terms of the procurement as set out in this Tender Notice or the associated tender documents. The associated tender documents made available on the Portal alongside this Tender Notice are issued in draft form (save for the PSQ and PSQ Guidance which are in final form) at this stage. The Council considers the information provided in this Tender Notice and the draft associated tender documents are sufficiently clear and specific to enable Applicant's to identify the nature and scope of the Council's requirement and decide whether to submit a request to participate.

This will be an iterative process, and the Council may update, refine or provide additional associated tender documents to shortlisted participating Tenderers at the next stage of the procurement process. At this next stage Tenderers may raise clarifications or propose amendments to certain specified associated tender documents or specific areas and the Council will consider and may amend/refine the associated tender documents at its discretion.

The Council will not distort competition nor act unfairly and amendments will not be made to benefit just one or just a few Tenderers. Final associated tender documents will be issued to all shortlisted participating Tenderers via the portal.

It is intended to procure the Works via a 2-stage tender process utilising the NEC4 Option C form of contract including X22 Early Contractor Involvement.

The outline Scope for the stage 1 works includes: -

• Undertake all necessary surveys
• TWAO Design validation
• Preliminary Design
• Detailed design
• Detailed construction programme
• Cost management - the successful Contractor will work with the Client's commercial manager to develop the stage 2 target cost throughout the stage 1/ECI period.
• Development of the target cost; Work package negotiation and procurement
• all subcontract packages will be tendered on an 'open book' basis with the Client and Project Manager having full visibility of all tender returns and any adjustments, allowances, attendances etc
• Preliminaries - based on resourced construction programme and staff rates included in stage 1 tender
• Buildability assessments
• Construction operations planning
• Programme development
• Logistics and access arrangements

The price for the stage 1 tender for the X22/ECI works will consist of contractor's preliminaries/fee for undertaking the stage 1 works and managing the design process, design costs for surveys, investigations and scoping, TWAO Design Validation and Preliminary Design and Detailed Design. As part of the evaluation, tenderers will be required to provide fixed percentages for overheads and profit which will be applied to both stage 1 and stage 2 of the contract.

As part of the tender there will also be a requirement to provide a budget price for the scheme based on the current TWAO design cost plan which will be included in the ITT pricing document and a schedule of staff rates which will be used for the stage 2 preliminaries costs. Neither of these elements will form part of the tender evaluation for stage 1.

Requests to participate (first stage)

2 Jul 2026, 12:00 BST

Submission deadline

2 Jul 2026, 12:00 BST

Submission channel

Official e-sourcing portal

Electronic submission

Allowed

Accepted languages

en