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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: PROCUREMENT OF FIRE CONSULTANT (REVISED) – FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
2. Awarding Authority: CPD – Construction Division, 303 Airport Road West, BELFAST, GB, BT3 9ED. Tel: 02890816555. Email: construct.info@finance-ni.gov.uk. Web: Buyer profile:
3. Contract type: Service contract
Open
4. Description: This Framework Competition Is For The Appointment Of Up To 2no. EO’s For The Provision Of A Service To Both; Provide A Fire Safety Design And Advisory Service To Internal CPD Design Teams, And To Provide A Fire Safety Design Review And Verification Service To External ICT Teams
Title
Lot 1 Northern Area
This Framework Competition Is For The Appointment Of Up To 2no. EO’s For The Provision Of A Service To Both; Provide A Fire Safety Design And Advisory Service To Internal CPD Design Teams, And To Provide A Fire Safety Design Review And Verification Service To External ICT Teams
Title
Lot 2 Southern Area
Description of the procurement
This Framework Competition Is For The Appointment Of Up To 2no. EO’s For The Provision Of A Service To Both; Provide A Fire Safety Design And Advisory Service To Internal CPD Design Teams, And To Provide A Fire Safety Design Review And Verification Service To External ICT Teams
5. CPV Code(s): 71315200, 75251110, 71317100
6. NUTS code(s): UKN, UKN0, UKN06
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: Place of performance
NUTS codes
UKN – Northern Ireland
Main site or place of performance
Northern area of NI
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Notice reference: 2023/S 000-036344
DoF 5147000
9. Estimated value of requirement: Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £110,000
10. Time limit for receipt of projects or requests to participate 8.1.2024 (15:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:
12. Other information: Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
one.3) CommunicationI.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address
Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at

Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
General public services
Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: Yes
Tenders may be submitted for all lots
Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: 1
Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
Information about options
Options: No
Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Contract performance conditions
The Economic Operators’ performance on this Framework Agreement will be regularly…. monitored. As part of its contract management procedures, the Contracting Authority will use the Protocol for Managing Poor Supplier…. Performance contained in Annex K of the Construction Procurement Toolkit see publications/dfp/Construction%20Toolkit%20%28pdf%20version%2030%20Sept%2022%20%281%29.PDF%29.PDF. If an Economic…. Operator has received more than one current Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance, the Contracting…. Authority, at its discretion, can consider an Economic Operator’s exclusion from future procurements, being undertaken on behalf of…. bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPP), for a minimum period of 12 months or 3 years respectively.. A… list. of bodies subject to Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy.
Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Framework agreement with several operators
Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 2
Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
English
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Tender must be valid until: 8 September 2025
Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: No
Additional information
The Authority expressly reserves the right (a) not to award any Contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by…. publication of this notice; (b) To make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in…. no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates participating in this competition. Contracts awarded as… a result of this procurement process shall be considered as a contract made in Northern Ireland and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction… of the Northern Ireland Courts. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award any contracts as a result of this competition…. The process may be terminated or suspended at any time without cost or liability to the Contracting Authority. While it intends to do so,… the Contracting Authority does not bind itself or others to enter into any contract arising out of the procedures envisaged by this notice…. No contractual rights expressed or implied arise out of the notice or procedures envisaged by it. The Contracting Authority reserves the… right to vary its requirements and the procedures relating to the conduct of the award process. The Contracting Authority shall disqualify… any Economic Operator which is ineligible under Regulation 57 of the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) (subject to any overriding public… interest requirement) and reserves the right to disqualify any organisation which: (a) Provides information or confirmations which later… prove to be untrue or incorrect; (b) Does not supply the information within the timescale required by this notice or by the Invitation… to Tender Documentation or as otherwise required during the process. Instructions on how to submit a tender; – Suppliers must be… registered on the Contracting Authorities e-procurement portal, eTendersNI available on the following link: epps/home.do All suppliers should follow the instructions on how to submit a tender within the Introduction and Brief Explanation… document held within the documents area for this procurement on the eTendersNI portal.
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