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museums and other cultural services
North West (UKD61)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Warrington Borough Council: "Cultural Services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityWarrington Borough CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for Warrington Borough Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
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Competition Density
4Bids / Report
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Coverage: 2 active published awards; 1 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityWarrington Borough Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
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CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
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Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
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Published15 May 2024, 16:26 BST
Last source update15 May 2024, 16:26 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationLibrary, archives, museums and other cultural services
Delivery area
North West (UKD61)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0459e7
What is being bought
Culture Warrington (Company number 07974406) are contracted by Warrington Borough Council to manage a number of facilities including Parr Hall, Pyramid Arts Centre and Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, as well as cultural and heritage services including education services to primary schools and outreach activities.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    15 May 2024, 16:26 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    15 May 2024, 16:26 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    15 May 2024, 16:26 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    Status not published
    Published valueNot published
    Culture Warrington (Company number 07974406) are contracted by Warrington Borough Council to manage a number of facilities including Parr Hall, Pyramid Arts Centre and Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, as well as cultural and heritage services including education services to primary schools and outreach activities.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    15 May 2024, 16:26 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 1 Apr 2024, 00:00 BST · £20,356,418
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Culture Warrington
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£20,356,418 · signed 1 Apr 2024, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Warrington Borough Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-50812
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  • Warrington Borough Council
    buyer
    reviewBody

    Town Hall, Sankey Street, Warrington, UKD61, WA1 1UH
    asimpson@warrington.gov.uk
    +44 1925443266

  • Culture Warrington
    supplier

    Pyramid Arts Centre, Palmyra Square South, Warrington, UKD61, WA11BL
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Planning and rationale
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No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleCulture Warrington are contracted by Warrington Borough Council ("the Council") to manage a number of facilities including Parr Hall, Pyramid Arts Centre and Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, as well as delivering cultural and heritage services including education services to primary schools and outreach activities. Culture Warrington were established at the same time as LiveWire (Warrington) CIC ("LiveWire"), in May 2012, as a separate charity to deliver these services. Whilst Culture Warrington are a separate entity to LiveWire, they have a number of shared management and central services staff in order to maximise efficiency. The Council have recently in-housed leisure, life-styles and wellbeing services which were provided by LiveWire and this has caused a requirement to separate some of the shared services. Up until the transfer of services in-house, Culture Warrington purchased these services from LiveWire for an annual fee. As a result of LiveWire no longer delivering these services to Culture Warrington, they have undertaken a review and have confirmed that in order to resource the posts required they will require an uplift of their annual fee by £161,000 per year. Whilst the original Culture Warrington contract was entered into under the Public Contract Regulations 2006 as a “Part B” contract, any significant modification to the Culture Warrington contract needs to be considered in the context of Public Contract Regulations 2015, specifically regulation 72. This Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice is therefore submitted on the basis of the modification of the Culture Warrington contract being a lawful modification under Regulation 72(1)(f) on the grounds that the modification is no more than 10% of the initial contract cost and is below the relevant threshold. The Culture Warrington contract's annual fee was £1,339,009. On the basis of the contract being for 15 years (that is the length of the contract that the Council and Culture Warrington are now committed to as a minimum), 10% of the initial contract value is therefore £2,008,513.50 (£1,339,009 x 15 years = £20,085,135 @ 10%). As a Light Touch contract, the total permitted value of any uplift under Regulation 72 (1)(f) is therefore up to the Light Touch threshold of £663,540. Pursuant to Regulation 72(6), which confirms that the value of a modification is the net cumulative value of all modifications to the contract over its duration. The fees paid, or to be paid over the 15 year contract duration, including the proposed fee uplift are below:- 2012/13 - £1,339,009 2013/14 £1,352,391 2014/15 £1,352,391 2015/16 £1,352,391 2016/17 £1,302,391 2017/18 £1,302,391 2018/19 £1,302,391 2019/20 £1,172,391 2020/21 £1,172,391 2021/22 £1,172,391 2022/23 £1,172,391 2023/24 £1,518,590 2024/25 £1,550,391 2025/26 £1,550,391 2026/27 £1,550,391 1 April 2027 - 1 – 14 May 2027 £193,799 The total amount to be paid over 15 years is therefore £20,356,418. This amounts to a total increase in the contract cost of £103,970 and as such is within the level permitted by Regulation 72(1)(f) and is therefore deemed to be a lawful modification.