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Cumbria County Council

Design and Build for Carlisle and Copeland Dementia Care Homes

ConstructionCPV 45000000
Value£10.0m
Awarded2 Dec 2016
Published8 May 2017
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£10.0mtotal contract value
median £158k
this tender£0£10.8m

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

Cumbria County Council (the Council) is seeking a Design & Build Contractor to design and construct two Dementia Care Homes in Copeland and Carlisle.

Each care home is to accommodate circa 60 residents with a mixture of dementia and high dependency needs.

The building aims to be a centre of excellence for people with dementia therefore the design (internally and externally) must meet the good practice design standards.

In addition, the facilities are also to include catering, dining, sluice, laundry, staff rooms and training rooms.

Please note there is an online questionnaire to complete for the first stage, used in the first step of the restricted procedure of selecting bidders to tender at second stage.

Further information is available via The Chest https://www.the-chest.org.uk/ Project ref DN216326.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The building aims to be a centre

The building aims to be a centre of excellence for people with dementia therefore the design (internally and externally) must meet the good practice design standards.

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OCID
e71f4265-856d-4b10-87ff-64b6f99791aa
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
CUM001-DN216326-48320334
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