Ada Lovelace S278 Highway Works

The Department for Education requires a suitably experienced Highways Contractor to express their interest to tender for construction of S278 Highway Works to the A406 North Circular adjacent Ada Lovelace School, North Ealing.

The S278 works are located at North Circular Road, London, W5 3AU. The S278 works are within the highway and are a combination of footway resurfacing works and carriageway surfacing works, with traffic light and streetlighting installation.

The works in question involve the construction of the following:

• Provision of traffic signal infrastructure
• Dropped crossing arrangement and associated footway works
• Carriageway surfacing works
• Road markings
• Road signs
• Street lighting
• Power Supply

The Contractor will be responsible for the management and construction of the works along with engagement with TfL for the works to obtain any necessary permissions, road closures and/or specialist installation works by TfL. All technical approvals have been granted by TfL.

TfL will be providing and installating the above ground signal equipment, however it will be the responsibility of the appointed Contractor to coordinate these works with TfL from a programme perspective.

It is intended that the main contract be entered into circa February 2023 with the contracting authority considering that this being suitable for SME enterprises with experience on similar projects.

It is estimated that construction works would commence in March/April 2023.

At this stage, the tendering authority is looking to assess interest in the scheme via Contract Finder and compile a list of interested Contractors to be contacted as part of the formal procurement.

The Contractor will likely be appointed using a JCT Design and Build for these works priced using works schedule.

Appointment of contractor will be on the basis of the criteria to be published in the tender documents, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the likely basis of the following split: Qualitative assessment 20% & Quantitative assessment 80%.

Reference can be made to the link within this market notification for design drawings, specifications, surveys and PCI information.

Fail criteria.

All Contractors are required to submit complete pricing schedules for the works and may be excluded should insufficient detail be provided.

All contractors must respond to any qualitative information. Should any Contractors score less than 50% in any one criteria they may be excluded from the ITT.

Contractors wishing to receive the tender documentation for this project should respond to Chris Bullough at the email address below.

The ITT is expected to be issued 09.12.2022 with a return date of 13.01.2023. Appointment expected 29.01.2023.