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Published 9 Feb 2021, 16:40 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

3335245 Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service - Learning and Development Centre, Cookstown

Official notice

Authority: CPD - Construction Health Projects·Consortium: 2 public authorities

WorksRestricted procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£31,000,000exc. VAT · 1 value update2.5% above published estimate
Submissions closed 22 Feb 2021awarded 22 Dec 2021
Awarded to Felix O'Hare Co Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) are seeking to provide centralised purpose-built training facilities to provide the following key features:

  • Learning and Development Centre (LDC) featuring classrooms, workstations, assembly hall, kitchen, dining, gym and changing facilities to support NIFRS Training
  • Training Warehouse with Fire Station, providing simulated training environments for marine, residential, industrial and commercial premises
  • Drill Tower for fire rescue and ladder training
  • Flood Water Training Facility for flood and river rescue.
  • Call-out Village for domestic incident scenario training with various housing types.
  • Search and Rescue Training Area providing a training environment for collapsed buildings and below ground rescue.
  • Simulated Industrial and Chemical Training Area for hazardous materials training.
  • Motorway and Embankment and network of A and B category roads for specialist training road traffic collision rescue training.

CPV: Building construction work · Buildings associated with transport · Construction work for buildings relating to emergency services · Construction work for buildings relating to various means of transport · Construction work for commercial buildings · Construction work for commercial buildings, warehouses and industrial buildings, buildings relating to transport · Construction work for school buildings · Construction work for warehouses · Construction work for warehouses and industrial buildings · Fire station construction work · Multi-functional buildings construction work · Training facilities building · +1 more

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored
Quality: 30%Price: 70%
Published award criteria (2)
  • QUALITY: 30
  • PRICE: 70
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    Refer to PQQ documentation

Staff
Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 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 · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Restricted procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
9 Feb 2021, 16:40 GMT
Last source update
22 Dec 2021, 14:34 GMT
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-032089
Classification (CPV)
Building construction workBuildings associated with transportConstruction work for buildings relating to emergency servicesConstruction work for buildings relating to various means of transportConstruction work for commercial buildingsConstruction work for commercial buildings, warehouses and industrial buildings, buildings relating to transportConstruction work for school buildingsConstruction work for warehousesConstruction work for warehouses and industrial buildingsFire station construction work
+3 moreMulti-functional buildings construction workTraining facilities building
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-028c3e Find a Tender
Contract terms
Performance terms

The Economic Operators’ performance on this Contract will be regularly monitored... As. part of its contract management procedures, the Contracting Authority will use the Protocol for Managing Poor Supplier.. Performance contained in Procurement Guidance Note PGN 01/12 – Contract Management Principles and Procedures:. https://.. www.financeni.gov.uk/.publications/procur… ↗. If an Economic.. Operator has received more than one current Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance, the Contracting.. Authority at its, discretion can consider an Economic Operator’s exclusion from future procurements, being undertake n on behalf of.. bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively. ... A list of bodies subject to Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy can be viewed at: . www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/ ↗. listpublicbodies which ni public procurement policy-applies.

Review and risk notes
Review procedure

CPD will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day Standstill Period following.. electronic notification (minimum of 15 calendar days for any other means of communication) to unsuccessful applicants of the award decision

Publisher note: CPD, in its capacity as a central purchasing body, is managing this procurement procedure on behalf of the contracting authority which.... is The Department for Infrastructure. The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right to award one, some, all. or no Lots; . ii. not. to.. award any contract/framework agreement as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of. this notice or to. cancel.. the procurement at any stage; and. iii. to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the. tendering. competition.. and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by Economic Operators or Candidates.. Any. expenditure, work.. or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly at the sole risk of the Economic Operator or Candidate.. participating in this.. procurement process. No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement or contract.. indeed there is no.. guarantee that any framework agreement or contract will be put in place in relation to this notice. No compensation.. etc will be paid if a.. contract or framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Economic Operators should take part in this process.. only on the basis.. that they fully understand and accept this position

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: eTendersNI · Who buys & how to bid on eTendersNI
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free Northern Ireland registration

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=3335245 ↗

Submission deadline
22 Feb 2021, 15:00 GMT
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

22 Feb 2021 → 22 Dec 2021 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    22 Feb 2021, 15:00 GMT
  2. Bids must remain valid until
    22 Jun 2021, 23:59 BST
  3. Notice published
    22 Dec 2021, 14:34 GMT

Notice history

6 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Jul 2021
  1. Published value published: £31,000,000
    27 Jul 2021, 18:14 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    27 Jul 2021, 18:14 BST
  3. Procurement method changed
    27 Jul 2021, 18:14 BST
  4. Deadline moved to 22 Feb 2021, 15:00 GMT
    27 Jul 2021, 18:14 BST
    -14 days · was 8 Mar 2021, 15:00 GMT
  5. Status changed to complete
    22 Dec 2021, 14:34 GMT
  6. Buyer details updated
    22 Dec 2021, 14:34 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—DeadlineTime limit for receipt of projects or requests to participate · IV.2.2)22 Feb 20218 Mar 2021+14 d

1 amendment published without a description.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £31,771,2211 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 66 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 22 Dec 2021
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Felix O'Hare Co LtdSMEContract£31,771,221 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
6bids · 6 electronic · 6 from abroad6——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

CPD - Construction Health Projects

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawPublic order and safety 303 Airport Road West, Belfast, UK, BT3 9EDContact name, email

Consortium members and other public bodies

  • Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue ServiceContracting authorityCentral purchasing bodyBody governed by public lawGeneral public services Lisburn, UKContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Department of Finance , Construction, Procurement and Delivery CPDReview body BELFAST
  • Department of Finance, Construction Procurement Delivery Procurement Operations BranchReview body Belfast

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • FELIX O'HARE CO. LTDAwarded supplier 88 Chancellors Road, NEWRY, UK, BT35 8NGContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria