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Phoenix House Development

Buyer: Torus62 Limited →

BuyerTorus62 Limited
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published7 Dec 2023

What is being bought

Intention to award a Public Works contract under Regulation 32(2) (b) (iii) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 for the development of a single site at Phoenix House, Winsford. The Negotiated Procedure without Prior Publication is being followed and is justified under Regulation 32 (2) (b) (iii).

Delivery location

UKD

Categories

Construction work 45000000Construction work for houses 45211100Construction work 45000000

Lot details

Lot 1

This Notice sets out the contracting authority’s intention to award a works contract using the negotiated procedure without prior publication, in accordance with Regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The contracting authority is proposing to award a works contract to Equans Regeneration Limited Company Number 01738371 (“Equans”). The works contract will be in the form of a JCT Design and Build contract (2016 edition) with Schedule of Amendments and will provide for the development of 99 homes by Equans. The works contract is intended to commence on or after January 2024 (subject to final agreement) and the works are intended to be completed in 2025. The contract value is estimated to be £19,624,440 excluding VAT. The works can only be provided by a particular economic operator for the following reason: protection of exclusive rights under Regulation 32 (2) (b) (iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Additional information: This VEAT notice demonstrates the intention to award a public works contract using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication (Regulation 32 (2) (b) (iii)). The detailed explanation for the use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication is set out in Annex D. This contract has not yet been entered into and a contract award notice will be published following award.

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Construction work, Construction work for housesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 45. The category anchor is Construction work (45000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 4517,1274 median · 30.2 average (5,652 of 17,127 with a bid count)3.8 average (6,244 of 17,127 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer610 median · 15.2 average (5 of 6 with a bid count)4 average (5 of 6 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKD1,0146 median · 89.1 average (251 of 1,014 with a bid count)7.4 average (284 of 1,014 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleThe works can only be provided by a particular economic operator for the following reason: protection of exclusive rights under Regulation 32(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The contracting authority has been approached by Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council (“the Council”), Cowest Services Limited (“Cowest”)and Equans regarding the freehold sale of land and buildings at Phoenix House Depot, Weaver Street, Winsford, Cheshire, a site currently within the Council’s ownership which it wishes to transfer for the development of 99 homes (“the Site”). The Council intends that the development of the Site will be carried out by Cowest, a joint venture company co-owned by the Council and Equans. Cowest has selected Equans as the contractor to carry out the development at the Site. The Council, Equans and Cowest approached the contracting authority as a registered provider of social housing, with the proposal that the contracting authority will take ownership of the Site and act as landlord in relation to the affordable homes once developed. The proposed structure of the transaction is as follows: 1.The Council agrees to transfer the Site to Cowest under its joint venture arrangement. 2.Cowest agrees to transfer the Site to Equans, (selected by Cowest as the contractor to carry out the works). 3. Equans agrees to transfer the Site to the contracting authority. A sale of land agreement will be entered into by all four parties. The sale of land agreement provides for the Council to transfer the Site to the contracting authority at the direction of Cowest and Equans. The transfer of the Site will therefore be directly from the Council to the contracting authority, in accordance with this direction. The value of the transfer is £1. This object of this element of the transaction is the transfer of land. It is a contractual condition in the sale of land agreement that Equans is appointed by the contracting authority to carry out the development works. The contracting authority therefore considers that the works can be supplied by only one economic operator, Equans, as it has exclusive rights in relation to the development and it is a condition of the sale that the contracting authority appoints Equans to carry out the works. The contracting authority further considers that the Council holds exclusive rights over the Site as the Site owner, which rights will pass to Cowest and Equans. This opportunity for the contracting authority to develop the Site exists solely as a result of those rights and the absence of competition is not a result of artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement by the contracting authority. The contracting authority considers that no reasonable alternative or substitute exists as this opportunity was presented to it by the Council, Cowest and Equans and there is no reasonable alternative route to purchase the Site without it being a condition of sale for the contracting authority to appoint Equans to undertake any development works.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

036129-2023-1

Statusactive
Value£19,624,440

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-042287
Latest release ID036129-2023
Latest release timestampThu Dec 07 2023 16:05:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Main procurement categoryworks
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
7 Dec 2023award, contract036129-2023

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
7 Dec 2023 · 036129-2023 · award, contract
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