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County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service

Consett Fire Station Refurbishment Works

ConstructionCPV 45210000
Value£750k
Awarded18 Feb 2025
Published15 Jan 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£750ktotal contract value
median £158k
this tender£0£6.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Construction band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 64,002 valued Construction tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Refurbishment Works - Consett Fire Station, Villa Real Road, Consett, DH8 6BH.

Each tendering organisation should register their interest in this opportunity by contacting James Gilbert jgilbert@ddfire.gov.uk, this will ensure any updates on the information are received by the tendering organisation.

Budget: £750k including a £50k contingency (Prelims & profit should be included in the Tender return for the expending of the contingency sum) Tender Information: https://we.tl/t-srzNDalXZY Please ensure that you download within a fortnight before the link expires.

Site Visit: Contractors should ensure that they have registered their interest to tender by emailing jgilbert@ddfire.gov.uk prior to organising any site visit.

Site visits will be limited to the following days and times: Wed 22nd Jan: 13:00 - 16:00 Hrs Tues 28th Jan: 09:00 - 16:00 Hrs Fri 31st Jan: 10:00 - 14:00 Hrs Mon 3rd Feb: 09:00 - 16:00 Hrs Tues 11th Feb: 09:00 - 11:00 Hrs One time slot of 1 hour will be permitted for each tendering organisation and will be made available on a first come first served basis.

Please contact John Hancock 07976720824 or jhancock@ddfire.gov.uk to enquire about availability.

Tender Submission Information Required: • Completed Schedule of Works • Completed Form of Tender & Certificate of Non Collusion • Contact details of 2 client references of similar work completed within the last 2 years. • Emailed to jgilbert@ddfire.gov.uk Timescales: Note that the works are planned for the Spring with a notional 14 week duration, please do feel free to return an alternative Tender with a different duration should you feel the 14 week period is not practical.

Estimated Key Dates Wed 15th January 2025 - Tender release date Tue 11th February 2025 - deadline for any tender queries and site visit Tue 18th February 2025 (5pm) - Tender Return Date 19th - 26th February 2025 - Tender Assessment, Clarifications Wed 26th February 2025 - Notification of preferred tenderer Mon 10th March 2025 - Standstill period completes, formal appointment of Contractor Mon 7th April 2025 - Commencement on site (this is flexible depending on lead in times required on elements) Mon 14th July 2025 - Completion of works (contract period to be firmed up at appointment stage) Note that responses to tender queries will be communicated to all tenderers by way of a live spreadsheet (with the identities removed).

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Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Each tendering organisation should register their interest

Each tendering organisation should register their interest in this opportunity by contacting James Gilbert jgilbert@ddfire.gov.uk, this will ensure any updates on the information are received by the tendering organisation.

02

£750k including a £50k contingency (Prelims &amp

£750k including a £50k contingency (Prelims & profit should be included in the Tender return for the expending of the contingency sum).

03

Contractors should ensure that they have registered

Contractors should ensure that they have registered their interest to tender by emailing jgilbert@ddfire.gov.uk prior to organising any site visit.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Stage
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Source
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CDDFRS 15.01.2025
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