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Published 16 May 2023, 13:21 BST

Official UK procurement notice

WHSCT 4833652 - Construction of a New Health and Care Centre in Lisnaskea

Official notice

Authority: Western Health and Social Care Trust (Central government)

WorksRestricted procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£20,000,000exc. VAT8.1% above published estimate
Submissions closed 29 Jun 2023awarded 27 Sept 2024
Awarded to LOWRY BUILDING CIVIL ENGINEERING LTD

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The project is for the provision of a new Lisnaskea Health and Care Centre, car parking and associated site works, access arrangements and other associated operational development. The development will provide purpose-built health and care accommodation to support the delivery of high-quality integrated primary and community care services for the population of Lisnaskea and surrounding southeast Fermanagh area. It will improve accessibility, service delivery and increased multi-disciplinary working within Southeast Fermanagh and it will bring GPs, the Trust Community and Older Peoples Day Care services together. The proposed site of 2.06ha, encompasses a building footprint of 4,424sqm (gross floor area of 4,070sqm), alongside a new access, car parking to the rear and extensive landscaping to the front of the site. The building form includes a legible two-storey pitched roof building respecting the local vernacular form, with a central public street and single storey clinical block to the west.

CPV: Building construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedPublished value£20,000,000
Variant 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
Price: 90%Social value: 10%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Social Value: 10
  • Price: 90
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 90 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 9 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

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
Works
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
16 May 2023, 13:21 BST
Last source update
27 Sept 2024, 10:20 BST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-030915
Classification (CPV)
Building construction work
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c913 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Performance terms

The 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 Appendix K of the Construction Procurement Toolkit.. . If an Economic Operator has receieved 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 of 12 months or 3 years respectively.

Review and risk notes
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. Any proceedings relating to any perceived non-compliance 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 e-procurement 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 within the Introduction and Brief Explanation document held within the documents area for this procurement on the eTendersNI portal.

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 Jun 2023, 15:00 BST
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

29 Jun 2023 → 27 Sept 2024 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    29 Jun 2023, 15:00 BST
  2. Bids must remain valid until
    29 Jun 2024, 23:59 BST
  3. Notice published
    27 Sept 2024, 10:20 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    27 Sept 2024, 10:20 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £21,611,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 51 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 27 Sept 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
LOWRY BUILDING CIVIL ENGINEERING LTDSMEContract£21,611,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
5bids · 5 electronic · 1 from abroad1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Western Health and Social Care Trust

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth MDEC Building, Altnagelvin Area Hospital Site, Glenshane Road, Londonderry, UK, BT47 6SBContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • DoH Health EstatesReview body BELFASTContact email
  • Health EstatesReview body BELFASTContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria