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UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER

Lancaster University - Engineering Building 2

ConstructionCPV 45000000
Value£8,500,000
Awarded12 Sept 2019
Published2 Aug 2019
RegionNorth West

£8,500,000 — stated in the notice.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£8.5mtotal contract value
median £158k
this tender£0£9.2m

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

The project comprises a stand alone turnkey new build research and teaching engineering building over three stories with a gross floor area of 2983m2.

The accommodation is to house the chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines and is a highly serviced building with some of the accommodation requiring a strict level of vibration control.

The building must achieve BREEAM Excellent and an EPC Grade A rating.

The University seeks to appoint a Principal Contractor for the works under a single stage procurement route.

It is planned that the contractor will mobilise in March 2020 and complete the project by 8th July 2021.

Intended tender method: The University is inviting formal Expressions Of Interest (EOI) in the project before running a Closed Tender.

The EOI documentation is available on In-Tend (details below) and will include RIBA Stage 3 and programme information, and a copy of the University's Special Conditions under JCT form of contract.

The Closed Tender (with 4 contractors TBC) will run across end-November 2019 - end January 2020 (8 weeks): The location of the site is Bailrigg Campus, Lancaster, LA1 4YW. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/contentassets/ documents/maps/campus-map.pdf The campus is a public space and so sections are open to members of the public and can be explored at their convenience unaccompanied by a University's representative.

Interested organisations can explore the campus unaccompanied at their All procurement documents are available free of charge via the University's e-tendering portal: In-Tend https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/ DOCUMENTS MUST BE ACCESSED AND SUBMISSIONS MADE VIA THIS PORTAL.

In-Tend Support: Phone: 0845 557 8079 E-mail: support@in-tend.com Web : https://in-tendhost.co.uk/lancaster/aspx/Help

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The building must achieve BREEAM Excellent

The building must achieve BREEAM Excellent and an EPC Grade A rating.

02

DOCUMENTS MUST BE ACCESSED AND SUBMISSIONS MADE

DOCUMENTS MUST BE ACCESSED AND SUBMISSIONS MADE VIA THIS PORTAL.

03

E-mail: support@in-tend.com

E-mail: support@in-tend.com.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

BREEAMsays mustCertification & assessment schemes
The building must achieve BREEAM Excellent and an EPC Grade A rating.

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