LC0210 Morley College Chelsea Centre (MCCC)

LocatED, an Arms-Length Body to the Department of Education (DfE) requires a suitably experienced Contractor to express their interest to tender for the refurbishment works at Morley College Chelsea Centre (MCCC).

MCCC is a creative arts further education centre located at Hortensia Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It compromises of 2 buildings, the Chelsea (2011) and the Carlyle (1937) which is Grade II listed.

The following interventions are required as part of this scheme.

1. Increase the college's visibility on the street. The Chelsea ground floor is to be remodeled to increase visitor capacity, and more provocatively display practical teaching spaces and student work with enhanced large format AV and open circulation.
2. Minor strip out and refresh of the Carlyle ground floor to relocate the existing library and allow the Chelsea ground floor works to start.
3. Refit of the rest of the Chelsea building to increase the teaching capacity and relocate staff on upper floors. Mechanical ventilation is required in multiple areas which currently overheat. A full planning application will be required for additional plant to be installed on the 3rd floor roof.

The target construction programme runs from 27/07/23 to 22/12/23 phased across 3 sections in live buildings. The college would welcome an earlier start in the summer to allow the ground floors to be handed over on/before the 31st of August for the college's opening in September 2023.

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). The Contractor will be responsible for developing, agreeing, and completing RIBA Stages 3 & 4 design following client engagement meetings then constructing the works and handing them over.

The works will be contracted via a 2 stage JCT Intermediate Contract with Contractors Design Portion (ICD). A Principal Contractor will be appointed under a Pre-Construction Services Agreement (PCSA) to develop the design, manage any planning/ statutory applications and inform a fixed price (lump sum) for the JCT ICD. The works are to be priced using the pricing schedule included in the ITT alongside the Contract Drawings to achieve the Employers Requirements.

A completed PQQ (attached) is to be emailed to Rafaella Christodoulidi from all those interested in the scheme by 09/12/2022.

Appointment of contractor will be based on the criteria to be published in the ITT on 21/12/22, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the following split: Qualitative assessment 60% & Quantitative assessment 40%. All eventual tenders must be demonstrated to be under budget, any bids considered over budget will be scored as deficient. Tenderers are to include responses to all evaluation criteria, otherwise this may be seen as a fail.

Contractors wishing to receive the tender documents for this project should respond to Rafaella Christodoulidi at the email address below.