Northamptonshire County Council - Managing Agent (Strategic Joint Venture)

Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) propose to establish a Managing Agent Strategic Joint Venture with a private sector partner to providethe Place Directorate Services in line with their move to a Commissioning Authority. The Managing Agent willdrive efficiencies across existing services and new services to support NCC in meeting and exceeding Councilobjectives and financial targets. The private sector partner should bring resources, financing and innovativeideas to maximise revenue savings (and income generation) plus capital efficiencies from NCC's diverse portfolio of assets. The Managing Agent will provide Strategic activities (business cases, feasibility studies,innovation in asset use), Delivery Management activities (procurement, project management, commercial management of capital works) and Integrator/Operator activities (BAU activities including supply chain management and management of renewal/refurbishment works)

Due to the complex procurement requirements, the Contracting Authority will be adopting the Competitive Dialogue process under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The Contracting Authority will be undertaking a pre-qualification process and then invite short-listed candidates to participate in a dialogue process during which any aspects of the project may be discussed and solutions developed.

It is envisaged that the contract duration will be 10 years with an option for up to a further 5 years. The range of the anticipated contract value over this period is between £650m and £850m during this period.

A pre-OJEU market engagement day is scheduled to be held on Thursday 25th May. For further details and to register for this event please contact Jon Collyns by e-mail at Jon.Collyns@Cambridgeshire.gov.uk