Soft Market Testing for Building Design Consultancy Services

The Council has been working with a Managing Partner, since 2013 to deliver the various construction programmes of work including Education & Corporate One-Off Capital Schemes, Annual Planned Maintenance Programmes and various survey programmes, the contract is due to expire at the end of June 2025 The Council is currently looking at options to procure a single organisation (not a consortium of organisations) to support the delivering of planned and capital construction project from inception to completion and to include an advice, design, project and programme management service for new builds, extensions and refurbishments of existing buildings from contract ranging from £200k to £10million.

The Councils’ Capital Programme: Spend per annum typically comprises of:

• £3m on school extensions and remodelling to School buildings.
• Up to £4m new works and refurbishments on other Council buildings.
• £1m planned maintenance on school buildings
• £1m planned maintenance on other Council buildings.

The current contract will expire on 30th June 2025 to allow for completion of the key construction projects. The current Managing Partner also handled all retention/defects liability issues in respect of projects started/completed during their tenure.

Succession Planning: The Consultant will begin working with the Council from April 2025, including:

• Familiarising themselves with the Councils’ Estate and key personnel
• Begin working up new projects required for delivery in the 2025/2026 financial year
• Working up to full handover from the current Managing Partner on 30th June 2025