Central Scotland local authority launches a £6bn ‘roads and place’ strategic partnership tender
The Motherwell headquartered North Lanarkshire Council has commenced a tender for a twenty year commercial place-shaping partnership contract, with the option to extend for a further five years, worth an estimated £5.7bn over the lifetime of the contract.
The Council said it has 'an ambitious vision to re-invent North Lanarkshire as the place to live, learn, work, invest and visit' and aims to implement a vision that enables 'inclusive economic growth and prosperity through an ambitious programme of regeneration and infrastructure investment'.
The contract notice, published on Public Contracts Scotland, states
'The Council is seeking a private sector partner to create a long term strategic commercial place shaping partnership to provide an innovative new approach to the delivery of a full range of interconnected property, community asset and infrastructure investment to support its ambitions to revitalise its communities.'
The Council will use the competitive dialogue process will be used for the procurement with a weighting of 80% towards quality and 20% towards price.
Partnering Services to be provided by the successful supplier will include:
Strategic Services — providing a range of professional services to develop strategy and policy, develop business cases, conduct feasibility studies, source finance and external funding, develop procurement strategy, and manage social impact.
Delivery Management Services — providing a range of professional to conduct procurement exercises, provide project management and programme management services, and commercial management services.
Integrator / Operator Services – providing a range of professional services to manage a supply chain for partnering services, core services, core projects and programmes, and deliver and manage partnering services, core services, and core projects and programmes.
Roads maintenance and winter services are included in the core services of the contract, which will also include other infrastructure elements including housing maintenance and corporate maintenance.
Tenderers wishing to participate in the procurement process must submit their pre-qualification questionnaire by 4 June 2021 with the Council indicating in its contract notice that it envisages inviting five candidates to participate in dialogue with it commencing August 2021.
Arfon Consulting’s procurement specialists have advised on a number of competitive dialogues, most recently in relation to The Welsh Minister’s first Mutual Investment Model PPP to design, build, finance and operate the dualling of the A465 Heads of The Valleys trunk road between Dowlais and Hirwaun due for completion in the Summer of 2025.
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