Official UK procurement notice
DFC 5011589 Historic Environment Division Specialist Conservation Advisory Services Framework Agreement 2023
Authority: Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Framework Agreement is for the provision of specialist conservation engineering, landscape management and masonry monument advice within the remit of the Department for Communities’ Historic Environment Division. This framework Agreement will be used to progress the Government’s wider social, economic and environmental objectives For a complete description of this procurement please refer to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents.
CPV: Architectural services for buildings · Civil engineering consultancy services · Construction project management services · Landscape architectural services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers · 2 bids received (2.0 per place) · 1 appointed (full)
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£800,000
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)
- Technical: 80%
- Financial: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical: 80
- Financial: 20
- Suitability
Refer to minimum standard requirements in the procurement documents
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 20 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “DFC 5011589 Historic Environment Division Specialist Conservation…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
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
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 25 Sept 2023, 12:14 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Jan 2026, 10:50 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 26 Oct 2023 – …
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-000194- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-040353Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic payment
- Performance terms
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. Annex K of the Construction Toolkit:. Construction Toolkit (pdf version 30 Sept 22 (1).PDF).PDF (finance-ni.gov.uk). 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 undertaken 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 ↗
- Review procedure
This procurement is governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and provides for economic operators who have suffered, or who risk suffering, loss, or damage, as a consequence of an alleged breach.of the duty owed in accordance with Regulation 91 to start proceedings in the High Court. A standstill period will commence at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide information on the award.. decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the. award decision before the contract is entered into.
Publisher note: CPD, in its capacity as a Central Purchasing Body, is administering this procurement on behalf of the Contracting Authority.. . The. Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right: 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. ii. 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. This project will be used to progress the Government’s. wider social, economic and environmental objectives.. . 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 noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps ↗
- Appointment period ends
- 30 Oct 2023, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 26 Oct 2023, 15:30 BST
Timeline
26 Oct 2023 → 5 Jan 2026 · 4 dates- Bids opened26 Oct 2023, 15:30 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown30 Oct 2023, 15:00 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until26 Oct 2024, 23:59 BST
- Notice published290 days ago5 Jan 2026, 10:50 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Oct 2023- Deadline moved to 30 Oct 2023, 15:00 GMT27 Oct 2023, 11:02 BST+4 days · was 26 Oct 2023, 15:00 BST
- Status changed to complete5 Jan 2026, 10:50 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineIV.2.2) | 26 Oct 2023 | 30 Oct 2023 | +4 d |
1 amendment published without a description.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract
- Signed
- 29 May 2024
- Value
- £272,363
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic · 1 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Department of FinanceReview body
- Department of Finance, Construction Procurement DeliveryReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- ALASTAIR COEY ARCHITECTS LTDFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria