Official UK procurement notice
Schools Climate Change Flood Risk Assessment
Authority: Department for Education (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFurther to the F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice being published on the 17/08/2021, the DfE proposes to award a 10 week contract to Sayers and Partners LLP for the delivery of a School Climate Change Risk Assessment. The contract commenced on 31st August 2021 and is due to run until 9th November 2021.
CPV: Technical analysis or consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The contract will focus on the delivery of a Climate Change Risk
The contract will focus on the delivery of a Climate Change Risk
Assessment report, updating their assessment toolset to assess the
future flood risk to schools from three sources of flooding – coastal,
surface water and fluvial flood sources. The Toolset is the Contractor’s in
house innovative flood risk assessment toolset that was first applied in
support of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 (CCRA2) and
most recently to the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022 (CCRA3).
The most recent updates include the latest UKCP18 data sets, including
highly resolution changes in fluvial flows, coastal overtopping and regional
changes in short duration rainfall (associated with surface water flooding).
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Aug 2021, 22:45 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Aug 2021, 22:45 BST
- Authority reference
* Contract Start Date: 31/08/2021 / End Date: 09/11/2021 *- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-020156- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02d62bFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below.
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations.
Explanation:
The DfE proposes to award a contract to Sayers & Partners LLP, for the supply of the School Climate Change Flood Risk Assessment, as part of the DfE Flood Resilience Strategy. Sayers & Partners designed, built and own the intellectual property in a climate change model (assessment toolset) which is used to assess the future flood risk to a variety of receptors including schools from three sources of flooding – coastal, surface water and fluvial flood sources.
The DfE believes that there is no other organisation in the market that can satisfy the technical requirements of the contract to deliver a Climate Change Risk Assessment report, updating the contractors assessment toolset to assess the future flood risk to schools from three sources of flooding.
As a result, the DfE believes that Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Regulation 32(2) applies.
Regulation 32(2) states:
“The negotiated procedures without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:-
(b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:-
(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons…”
(iii) the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights,
- Review procedure
If any clarification regarding the award of the contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by breach of the rules to take legal action.
Any such action must be brought within the applicable limitation period. If a contract has been entered into the Court may, depending on the circumstances, award damages, make a declaration of ineffectiveness, order the authority to pay a fine and/or order that the duration of the contract be shortened.
Publisher note: PLEASE NOTE: Publication Date: 17/08/21 Contract Start Date: 31/08/21 Contract End: 09/11/21
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sayers and Partners LLPSMESubcontracting: declared | £28,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Schools Climate Change Flood Risk Assessment · Sayers and Partners LLPSME
- Signed
- 17 Aug 2021
- Value
- £28,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court Royal Courts of JusticeMediation bodyReview bodyReview contact point
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- SAYERS AND PARTNERS LLPAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.