Construction work

Tender description

The National College for Nuclear (NCfN) is one of five National Colleges funded by the Government and working in collaboration with employers to reduce the skills gap in key industry areas. Many of the courses will be residential and to support this requirement the College is intending to build student accommodation providing 200 new rooms for the HE Sector, to be completed in full by August 2018 with the potential for expansion in further phases of up to a further 350 rooms. The College is open to either modular or traditional forms of construction and will consider alternative funding proposals. An outline design for the residential scheme has been developed to concept level and Outline Planning approval has been approved. Bridgwater & Taunton College is now seeking to appoint a development partner to develop the design, secure finance for the scheme and to build it. The College will retain operational, lifecycle and demand risk and the proposed development will be located at the main Cannington Centre on a green field site. The main site is provided with all main services and significant survey information is available. The purpose of this notice is to invite interested parties to attend a provider engagement event on Wednesday 8.2.2017 at the Cannington Centre. At the event, an overview of the project will be presented and an opportunity to engage with providers will be arranged. A brochure will be available to you upon receipt of your expression of interest, with further details of booking into this event. Documents are normally published to the secure area within 24 hours. If after this time you have not received your email advising the documents have been published to the secure area, please contact the procurement office by sending a message through the correspondence function. The closing date for return of expression of interest is Noon Monday 30.1.2017.