Financial consultancy services

Tender description

Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) and Cornwall Council (CC) are collaborating on a public task to provide highways-related services through the establishment and operation of a corporate joint venture (a Teckal body) called Via East Midlands Limited (Company No 09903246) (VEM). As part of these arrangements, VEM intends to enter into a collaboration with CC, CORSERV Limited (Company No 09598549) (CORSERV, a Teckal body wholly owned by CC) and NCC whereby CORSERV and NCC will provide VEM with strategic support functions in order to resource VEM towards the operation of its collaboration task. These resourcing contributions are the subject of this notice. The resourcing arrangements will be coordinated through a Collaboration Agreement (under Regulation 12(7) Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015)) to be entered into by NCC, CC, CORSERV and VEM both to support VEM and govern a broader cooperation between the parties to support the delivery of highways-related services. VEM intends to enter into a collaboration with CC, CORSERV and NCC whereby: CORSERV will provide VEM with Legal and Governance; Financial Services; Procurement Services; Human Resources and Organisational Development; Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Management; Commercial Governance and Strategy; Communications, Public Relations and Marketing; Information Communication Technology and Fleet Management Services and the initial estimated value of this resource contribution, provided at cost, is between 15 000 000 GBP-17 000 000 GBP over 10 years or 23 000 000 GBP-25 000 000 GBP over 15 years; and NCC will provide VEM with Strategic Personnel Support, including Payroll and ICT Support provided at cost, (estimated annual figures: ICT: 372 000 GBP, HR:28 000 GBP, Payroll:35 000 GBP), estimated value 4 350 000 GBP to 5 660 000 GBP over 10 years or 6 525 000 GBP to 7 100 000 GBP over 15 years. There is an agreed review point in the 2nd year, therefore figures are estimates.