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Homes and Communities Agency

HCA Lea Castle Hospital Kidderminster Bat Mitigation Construction

ConstructionCPV 45000000
Value£262k
Awarded15 Dec 2017
Published15 Mar 2018
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£262ktotal 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

HCA is seeking to appoint a contractor for the safe construction of 2 (two) Bat Barn buildings, 1 (one) Bat House and the conversion of an existing substation into a bat building, including provision of underground hibernaculums for bat barns.

Work will include earthworks, excavation for foundations and foundation construction (including identification of and removal of abandoned services prior to excavation), construction of external cavity walls and internal walls, roof construction, including access provision, and internal and external finishes.

The works will include minor disturbance of asbestos containing materials that will require suitably qualified contractors as set out in the documentation.

Contractors must have in place Public and Employers Liability insurance cover of £5 million each along with Professional Indemnity Insurance of £2 million to undertake the contract respectively.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Contractors must have in place Public

Contractors must have in place Public and Employers Liability insurance cover of £5 million each along with Professional Indemnity Insurance of £2 million to undertake the contract respectively.

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

2 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Employers' / public liability insurancesays mustFinancial standing & cover
Contractors must have in place Public and Employers Liability insurance cover of £5 million each along with Professional Indemnity Insurance of £2 million to undertake the contract respectively.
Professional indemnity insurancesays mustFinancial standing & cover
Contractors must have in place Public and Employers Liability insurance cover of £5 million each along with Professional Indemnity Insurance of £2 million to undertake the contract respectively.

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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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
HCA001-DN307157-69330576
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