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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Bedford College

Advanced Engineering Centre

ConstructionCPV 45000000 45200000 45210000 45214000
Value£4.7m
Awarded21 Dec 2016
Published23 Jul 2018
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£4.7mtotal 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

Bedford College has secured detailed planning consent for the construction of a three storey Advanced Engineering Centre.

The building will be located at the heart of the busy Cauldwell Street campus.

Preparation for the project including the discharge of the pre-start planning conditions is well in hand.

A site investigation and initial archeological investigation were completed in July 2016.

The College are seeking a contractor who has very recent experience of working on a very tight; fully operational FE/HE education site.

Students who attend Bedford College range from 14 year old school aged pupils to mature adults.

A wide range of courses are offered by the college and the site must remain fully operational at all times during the works.

The contractor will be mandated to register the project under the CC Scheme and to achieve a score of at least 38 out of 50.

In evaluating the PQQ's; emphasis will be placed on evaluating the nature; scope and number of apprenticeships that are directly attributable to awarding the contract to a particular contractor and their supply chain.

SEMLEP as a requirement of their grant assistance will require the college to provide evidence of the number of jobs and apprenticeships that are created as a direct result of this investment.

The college will expect the contractor to provide site visits and access to the technical information for the curriculum teaching areas.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

A wide range of courses are offered

A wide range of courses are offered by the college and the site must remain fully operational at all times during the works.

02

In evaluating the PQQ's; emphasis will

In evaluating the PQQ's; emphasis will be placed on evaluating the nature; scope and number of apprenticeships that are directly attributable to awarding the contract to a particular contractor and their supply chain.

03

SEMLEP as a requirement of their grant

SEMLEP as a requirement of their grant assistance will require the college to provide evidence of the number of jobs and apprenticeships that are created as a direct result of this investment.

04

The college will expect the contractor

The college will expect the contractor to provide site visits and access to the technical information for the curriculum teaching areas.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

ApprenticeshipsPolicies & commitments
scope and number of apprenticeships that are directly attributable to awarding the contract to a particular contractor and their supply chain.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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OCID
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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