Official UK procurement notice
3 West – Cost Consultant (Quantity Surveying Services) - UoBath/Proc/1438
Authority: University of Bath (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement description3 West is a complex 1960s medium-height educational building forming part of a live campus environment with connected terrace buildings. The project is expected to involve either a complex major refurbishment of the existing asset, or in-situ demolition, or part demolition with replacement, subject to design development and option appraisal.
Key drivers and constraints
•Complex building fabric and interfaces with adjacent/connected buildings.
•Building safety and fire strategy considerations from the outset.
•Uncertainty over the final solution, affecting cost confidence, assumptions and scope definition.
•Live campus constraints (students, staff, noise, access, communications).
•Need for robust cost planning, benchmarking and risk/contingency development across RIBA Stages 1–4, with a clear gateway at the end of Stage 2 to confirm the preferred option and delivery route.
Scope of requirement
The Cost Consultant will provide cost management and commercial advice to support option appraisal, design development, procurement and delivery. The indicative scope is set out in the final Invitation to Tender (ITT) and associated Scope of Services.
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- How the procedure runs: •Stage 1: Open tender invitation. Invited to provide participation standard, Mandatory questions, Pass/Fail, and four scored questions on the technical experience and capacity, and two process/approach questions used to rank those suppliers who pass the minimum requirements. The top 10-ranked suppliers will be shortlisted. •Stage 2: Invite shortlisted suppliers to submit Quality and Commercial tenders for evaluation against the published award criteria. •Stage 3: Top 3-5 ranked suppliers to a structured presentation/clarification meeting. The University will then request Best and Final Offers (BAFO) from those suppliers. It will make the award decision based on the final evaluated scores for the suppliers invited to present, in accordance with the published process.
CPV: Calculation of costs, monitoring of costs · Project and design preparation, estimation of costs
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£350,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- See ITP: 50%
- See ITP: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
- See ITP: Quantitive
- See ITP: Qualatative
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Feb 2026, 19:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Feb 2026, 19:05 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 6 May 2026
- Authority reference
UoBath/Proc/1438- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-011589- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064bb9Find a Tender
- How it runs
•Stage 1: Open tender invitation. Invited to provide participation standard, Mandatory questions, Pass/Fail, and four scored questions on the technical experience and capacity, and two process/approach questions used to rank those suppliers who pass the minimum requirements. The top 10-ranked suppliers will be shortlisted.
•Stage 2: Invite shortlisted suppliers to submit Quality and Commercial tenders for evaluation against the published award criteria.
•Stage 3: Top 3-5 ranked suppliers to a structured presentation/clarification meeting. The University will then request Best and Final Offers (BAFO) from those suppliers. It will make the award decision based on the final evaluated scores for the suppliers invited to present, in accordance with the published process.
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 16 Mar 2026, 09:30 GMT
- Submission deadline
- 16 Mar 2026, 09:30 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 27 Feb 2026, 09:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
9 Feb 2026 → 25 May 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published260 days ago9 Feb 2026, 19:05 GMT
- Clarification questions by243 days ago27 Feb 2026, 09:00 GMT
- Submission deadline226 days ago16 Mar 2026, 09:30 GMT
- Award decision expected by174 days ago6 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts156 days ago25 May 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published9 Feb 2026, 19:05 GMTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender