Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

Tender description

Essex County Council (ECC) intends to establish a 4 year Framework Agreement for the provision of Professional Services to support and manage the delivery of major capital construction projects. The Framework Agreement will be available to other Contracting Authorities within the East of England and is anticipated to be operational by 1.9.2016. Please note the Council makes no guarantee as to the amount or value of work awarded under the Framework. How to express an interest in this tender: Applicants must contact ECC to request to be invited to this tender by following these instructions: 1. Send an email with your organisation name in the subject title field to: email2workspace-prod+ECC+WS631797698+3vp1@ansmtp.ariba.com asking to be invited to this tender and providing your contact name and Supplier ID/User ANID from your Ariba registration details. 2. If you have more than 1 registered user who you want invited to the event, provide the name(s) of each registered user in your request as it may not be possible to include additional users at a later stage. If you are not registered in Ariba at all, please go to http://ecc.supplier.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full and follow the instructions to register then follow steps 1 and 2 above. (Please Note: 35 % completion (i.e. mandatory fields only. Organisation/user details, commodity, sales territory) is the minimum required for your Ariba cloud registration, you do not need to reach 100 % completion). Once you have been invited to the project all communication will need to be via the project message board. The tender documents are available on: a) The ECC e-sourcing portal ‘Ariba’, through which the tender process will be run; b) The Government Contracts Finder website: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder c) ECC's Opportunities Listing: http://www.essex.gov.uk/Business-Partners/Supplying-Council/Pages/default.aspx