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Medicines Discovery Catapult

Refurbishment of Block 21, Alderley Park, to accommodate the Lighthouse laboratory.

ConstructionCPV 45000000
Value£900k
Awarded1 Apr 2020
Published28 May 2020
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£900ktotal contract value
median £158k
this tender£0£6.5m

This is a large award for Construction — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 64,002 valued Construction tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Refurbishment of Block 21, Alderley Park, to accommodate the Lighthouse laboratory.

The Lighthouse laboratory is based at Alderley Park science park.

Alderley Park is owned by Bruntwood.

As a result, any refurbishment of the premises at Alderley Park, in order to accommodate the Lighthouse laboratory, were undertaken by Bruntwood.

In its response to COVID-19 and with only days available, MDC, on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care, is entering into contracts without competition or advertising the requirement.

In accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations (2015) and Procurement Policy Note 01/20, the following tests have been met: • There are genuine reasons for extreme urgency - the response to the COVID-19 consequences needs to be immediate because of public health risks. • The events that have led to the need for extreme urgency were unforeseen - the COVID-19 situation is so novel that the consequences are not something that MDC could have predicted. • It is impossible to comply with the usual timescales in the Public Contract Regulations (2015) - there is no time to run an accelerated procurement under the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation, nor does the MDC have access to an existing commercial agreement such as a framework or dynamic purchasing system.

The situation is not attributable to the MDC - MDC has not done anything to cause or contribute to the need for extreme urgency.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The response to the COVID-19 consequences needs

the response to the COVID-19 consequences needs to be immediate because of public health risks.

02

It is impossible to comply with

It is impossible to comply with the usual timescales in the Public Contract Regulations (2015).

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
…n or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation, nor does the MDC have access to an existing commercial agreement such as a framework or dynamic purchasing system.…
Named PPN compliancePolicies & commitments
In accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations (2015) and Procurement Policy Note 01/20, the following tests have been met:

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OCID
64c27e80-f78d-44a7-8209-70da2192c274
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
MEDDISC001-DN480136-69335199
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