Date of dispatch of this notice: 07/11/2014
Expire date: 08/12/2014
External Reference: 2014-879199
TED Reference: 2014/S 218-384746
Date of dispatch of this notice: 07/11/2014
Expire date: 08/12/2014
External Reference: 2014-879199
TED Reference: 2014/S 218-384746
Development of Cockpit Yard, London, WC1N
London
The London Borough of Camden (“the Council”) is seeking a development partner to deliver a high quality residential, commercial and community mixed use redevelopment of the Cockpit Yard and Holborn Library site, in Bloomsbury, central London.
Priorities for the Council include the provision of improved facilities for the existing community and commercial uses on the site and also the release of valuable land for private and affordable housing.
Required outputs of the project include the delivery of a high quality, mixed tenure residential development; a modernised and enhanced Holborn library and archive; refurbished retail space fronting Theobald’s Road; replacement facilities for an existing street cleaning depot operated by Veolia; and new studio / business incubator space to replace the existing facilities currently occupied by Cockpit Arts.
The London Borough of Camden’s ambition is to secure the delivery of a sensitive and high quality redevelopment of the Cockpit Yard site on Northington Street which includes ex-Council offices, Cockpit Arts (a commercial occupier), Holborn Library, the Borough Archive and the Street Cleansing Services depot together with ancillary storage space.
The Contracting Authority will set out its requirements in the tender documents. A parent company guarantee or performance bond may be required.
The contracting authorities reserves the right to require deposits, guarantees or other forms of security.
Payments will be made in accordance with the standard terms of payment detailed in the tender documents.
Providers applying as a consortium or joint venture must provide full details of each member of the consortium and confirm that the grouping is a legal venture with joint and several liabilities. Each member will be jointly and severally responsible for the performance of the contract. In the case of a consortium bid a lead contractor will be required to represent the consortium.
Cockpit Yard
The Council intends to limit the scope and period of the Competitive Dialogue, with a view to minimising the time and costs for all parties during the procurement process.
A summary of the down selection process is:
- Following the PQQ, shortlisted bidders will be invited to participate in dialogue and prepare Outline Solutions
- Following evaluation of the Outline Solutions, tenderers will be down selected
- Remaining tenderers will be invited to dialogue phase 2
- Following the close of dialogue, remaining tenders will be invited to submit final tenders for final evaluation
- Preferred bidder selected.
Outline Solutions and subsequent Final Tenders will be evaluated on both quality and price criteria. The Outline Solutions documentation will specify the relative weightings of criteria for the award of the contract.