Essex Construction Framework

Essex County Council (ECC) intends to establish a 4 year Framework Agreement for principal contractors to carry out design and construction related works primarily on behalf of ECC. The main driver for demand within ECC is the capital programme to expand the number of school places across the county. This programme is typically valued at 40,000 000-50 000 000 GBP per annum. The Framework Agreement will be available to other Contracting Authorities within the East of England.

The Framework will consist of 2 seperate Lots as follows:

Lot 1 works from a value of 50 000 GBP to 2 000 000 GBP;

Lot 2 works from a value of 2 000 000 GBP +

Applicants will be invited to apply for one lot only and each lot will have up to 5 Contractors. ECC will use Constructionline and the PAS91 Pre-Qualification Questionnaire to reduce the administrative burden on suppliers wishing to apply for this opportunity. If you are registered with Constructionline, you will not need to complete the full PQQ, simply supply your Constructionline membership number and complete the project specific supplementary questions S1 to S13 in the searate document that will be provided. Please ensure that you log-in to your Constructionline profile and confirm that the information held on your company is accurate and that you are registered for Building (Design & Construct) - 45210000-2 and have the following notational values in place:

LOT1: Notational Value of 2 000 000 GBP or above

LOT2: Notational Value of 10 000 000 GBP or above

You must do this by 17:00 12.8.2015 to ensure any changes can be made to your information held by Constructionline prior to the closing date of this notice. Please contact Andy Preston on +44 7584703352 or andrew.preston@capita.co.uk for assistance. Applicants not currently registered with Constructionline are encouraged to do so as this will simplify the pre-qualification process. To register in relation to this contract notice please contact Tom Jackson on +44 7712391082 or thomas.jackson@capita.co.uk. You will need to start the registration process as soon as possioble and ensure that you achieve a fully registered status by 17:00 10.8.2015. Those suppliers not already registered with Constructionline may register at: http://www.constructionline.co.uk/static/signup/sign-up-as-supplier.html Suppliers not registered with Constructionline will not be precluded from expressing an interest in this contract notice but will need to demonstrate that they meet the pre-qualification requirements, through the completion of the full pre-qualification questionnaire.

Additional information: How to express an interest in this tender:

Applicants must contact ECC to request to be invited to this tender by following these instructions:

1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to: email2workspace-prod+ECC+WS496338405+1f4j@ansmtp.ariba.com

asking to be invited to this tender and providing your contact name and Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba registration details.

2. If you have more than one registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage. If you are not registered in Ariba at all, please go to http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full and follow the instructions to register then follow steps 1 and 2 above. PLEASE NOTE: 35% completion (i.e. mandatory fields only: organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100% completion. Once you have been invited to the project all communication will need to be via the project message board. The Council makes no guarantee as to the amount or value of work awarded under the Framework. Call-off contracts will be based on the NEC3 suite of contracts, which will be amended to include ECC's own requirements.

Please find below a link to the ECC Opportunities Listing where copies of the Procurement Documents can be obtained: https://www.essex.gov.uk/Business-Partners/Supplying-Council/documents/Procurement_Opportunities.xls