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Published 20 Mar 2025, 13:22 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

NICTS - 5808003 - The Modernisation of Bishop Street Courthouse

Official notice

Authority: ern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesRestricted procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£1,900,000exc. VAT · 1 value update39.4% below published estimate
Submissions closed 29 Apr 2025awarded 25 Aug 2026
Awarded to Security Contract - Details Withheld

What is being bought

Published requirement description

An Integrated Consultant Team Is Required To Develop The Brief And Design Solutions For The Refurbishment, Reconfiguration And Potential Extension Of The Grade A Listed Bishop Street Courthouse Within The Conservation Area Of Derry / Londonderry. All tender documents for this procurement are available for Suppliers to view and download from a Data Room, a publicly accessible folder in CIMS, which may be accessed at the link included in Document: 740870BL - Instructions to Tenderers_Ver3 (1), located in the Cft Documents Area of this Call For Tender.

CPV: Construction project management services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedPublished value£1,900,000
Second stage: up to 5 candidates invited to tenderVariant bids: not allowed

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: 60%Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 60
  • Price: 40
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    List and brief description of conditions: In order for a Economic Operator to be eligible to. participate in this. competition they must hold licenses, accreditation or certificates for specific categories and sectors as set out in the PQQ documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

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
Services
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
20 Mar 2025, 13:22 GMT
Last source update
25 Aug 2026, 09:27 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-080641
Classification (CPV)
Construction project management services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN0)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e45c Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Performance terms

If an economic operator fails to reach satisfactory levels of performance the economic. operator may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance. will result in the economic operator being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Contracting Authorities. on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the. certificate. A list of these bodies can be viewed at:. . www.finance-ni.gov.uk/articles/list-public… ↗. applies.

Review and risk notes
Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:. 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. Any proceedings relating.. to any perceived noncompliance. with the relevant law must be started within 30 days, beginning with the date when the economic... operator first knew, or ought to have known that grounds for starting the proceedings had arisen. (A court may. extend the time limit to 3.. months, where the court considers that there is a good reason for doing so).

Publisher note: The Authority expressly reserves the right (a) not to award any Contract as a result of the procurement process. commenced by.. publication of this notice; (b) 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. candidates participating in this competition. Contracts awarded as.. a result of this procurement process shall be. considered as a contract made in Northern Ireland and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction.. of the Northern Ireland. Courts. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award any contracts as a result of this competition... The. process may be terminated or suspended at any time without cost or liability to the Contracting Authority. While it. intends to do so,.. the Contracting Authority does not bind itself or others to enter into any contract arising out of the. procedures envisaged by this notice... No contractual rights expressed or implied arise out of the notice or. procedures envisaged by it. The Contracting Authority reserves the.. right to vary its requirements and the. procedures relating to the conduct of the award process. The Contracting Authority shall disqualify.. any Economic. Operator which is ineligible under Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) (subject to any. overriding. public. interest requirement) and reserves the right to disqualify any organisation which: (a) Provides. information or confirmations which. later. prove to be untrue or incorrect; (b) Does not supply the information within. the timescale required by this notice or by the Invitation.. to Tender Documentation or as otherwise required during. the process.. Instructions on how to submit a tender; - Suppliers must be.. registered on the Contracting Authorities eprocurement. portal, eTendersNI available on the following link: https://etendersni.gov.uk/. epps/. home.do. All suppliers should follow the instructions on how to submit a tender withi

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/home.do ↗

Submission deadline
29 Apr 2025, 15:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

29 Apr 2025 → 25 Aug 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    29 Apr 2025, 15:00 BST
  2. Bids must remain valid until212 days ago
    24 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
  3. Notice published58 days ago
    25 Aug 2026, 09:27 BST

Notice history

7 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Apr 2025
  1. Deadline moved to 17 Apr 2025, 15:00 BST
    3 Apr 2025, 11:17 BST
    +10 days · was 7 Apr 2025, 15:00 BST
  2. Published value published: £1,900,000
    16 Apr 2025, 09:24 BST
  3. Status changed to active
    16 Apr 2025, 09:24 BST
  4. Procurement method changed
    16 Apr 2025, 09:24 BST
  5. Deadline moved to 24 Mar 2025, 15:00 GMT
    16 Apr 2025, 09:24 BST
    -24 days · was 17 Apr 2025, 15:00 BST
  6. Status changed to complete
    25 Aug 2026, 09:27 BST
  7. Buyer details updated
    25 Aug 2026, 09:27 BST
Published amendments (3 · 3 deadline changes)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—DeadlineIV.2.2)24 Mar 20257 Apr 2025+14 d
—DeadlineTime Limit for Receipt of Tenders · IV.2.2)7 Apr 202517 Apr 2025+10 d
—TextSuitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade. registers · III.1.1)—Note that amendments have been made to all returnable PQQx documents, which have been withdrawn from the documents area of eTendersNI, and replaced with revisions as ‘Rev 1.’ These include general amendments to focus requirements. The number of example projects required has been reduced, and all scoring criteria have been amended by the removal of ‘inclusive’ with regards assessment of the key poi…
—DeadlineTime limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate · IV.2.2)17 Apr 202529 Apr 2025+12 d

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Tender Return Date

1 amendment published without a description.

Routine re-releases (5)
  • 2025-04: 1 release · 3 Apr 2025
  • 2025-03: 1 release · 20 Mar 2025

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £1,152,0501 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 41 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 25 Aug 2026
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Security Contract - Details WithheldSME£1,152,050 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • NICTS - 5808003 - The Modernisation of Bishop Street Courthouse · Security Contract - Details WithheldSME

    Signed
    25 Aug 2026
    Value
    £1,152,050
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
4bids · 4 electronic · 1 from abroad1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

ern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service

Contracting authorityRegional or local authorityJustice Laganside House, 23-27 Oxford Street, BELFAST, UK, BT1 3LAContact name, email, phone

Consortium members and other public bodies

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Department of Finance, Central Procurement Directorate Procurement Operations BranchReview body BelfastContact email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Security Contract - Details WithheldAwarded supplier Security Contract - Details Withheld, Belfast, UK, BT3 9EDContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria