Official UK procurement notice
West Midlands Pension Fund - 1 Rivergate Bristol - Sustainability Consultant
Authority: West Midlands Pension Fund (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWest Midlands Pension Fund (the Authority) is one of the UK's largest pension funds, originally formed by West Midlands County Council and now working in partnership with seven metropolitan district councils and over 800 employers providing public services across the West Midlands region. City of Wolverhampton Council is the Administering Authority for the Fund under the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013, and have delegated the responsibility for the management of the Fund to the Pensions Committee and the Director of Pensions, and established a Local Pensions Board to assist in governance of the Fund.
The fund is focused on delivering value to customers, developing services to enable pension members to plan for their retirement and supporting employers in delivering cost-effective benefits to their employees. They seek to invest responsible to generate long-term defined benefits and drive positive change including in aspects of social, environmental and governance to create long-term sustainability to the Funds people, and to the planet.
This opportunity is to support the Authority in the development of a real estate opportunity at 1 Rivergate in Bristol. The Sustainability Consultant shall be expected to support the Authority with development of the design to achieve the environmental goals for the project.
- No preliminary market engagement: To avoid competitive distortion.
CPV: Miscellaneous engineering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£500,000
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 (5)
- Company History, Organisation, and Experience: 15%
- Management Approach & Risk: 19%
- Communication and management: 10%
- Commercial: 40%
- Social and Environmental: 16%
Published award criteria (5)
- Company History, Organisation, and Experience: Please refer to the detailed ITT for all elements.
- Management Approach & Risk: Please refer to the detailed ITT for all elements.
- Communication and management: Please refer to the detailed ITT for all elements.
- Social and Environmental: Please refer to the detailed ITT for all elements.
- Commercial: Please refer to the detailed ITT for all elements.
- 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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Jun 2025, 13:41 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Jun 2025, 09:34 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 25 Jul 2025
- Authority reference
WMPF005- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-030248- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 7 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Jun 2025, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Timeline
5 Jun 2025 → 28 Jul 2025 · 6 dates- Tender notice published5 Jun 2025, 13:41 BST
- Clarification questions by23 Jun 2025, 17:00 BST
- Latest notice published26 Jun 2025, 09:34 BST
- Submission deadline7 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by25 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts28 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 5 Jun 2025- Tender notice published5 Jun 2025, 13:41 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published26 Jun 2025, 09:34 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 7 Jul 2025, 12:00 BST26 Jun 2025, 09:34 BST+7 days · was 30 Jun 2025, 12:00 BST
Published amendments (1)
An extension to the deadline was published to allow responses to clarification questions.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Incorporates the full tender brief including terms, scope, commercial response document and invitation to tender.
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender