Environmental issues consultancy services

Tender description

Portsmouth City Council (the Employer) is inviting tenders from suitably qualified heritage and archaeological consultants (Supplier) to provide heritage advice and archaeological support to the Employer for the Southsea Coastal Defence Scheme. The contract will be a NEC3 Professional Services Contract Option G — Term Contract. Task Orders will be issued to the Consultant for the provision of services under the term contract. The target award date for the contract is 12.9.2017 with service commencement following on 21.9.2017. The contract will run for an initial base term of 7 years extendable to a maximum total term of 8 years. The estimated total value for this contract is 350 000 GBP. More detail about the potential 350 000 GBP can be found in section II.2.4 of this notice. The services to be provided under the term contract may include: — Provide expert heritage and archaeological advice to the Employer during the next stages of design, in which the current conceptual design will be further developed to a sufficient level of detail to obtain planning permission, and subsequently to full detailed design. The Consultant shall support the Employer in satisfying the requirements of this Scope and address the issues and concerns raised by key heritage stakeholders including Portsmouth City Council's Conservation Officer, Hampshire County Council's Historic Environment Team, and Historic England. — Provide support to the Employer and draft applications for heritage related licences and consents. — Produce written schemes of investigation (WSIs) for all required stages of site investigations and construction works. — Provide an archaeological watching brief for site investigations and construction works. — Produce a Heritage Statement for the planning permission application. — Produce an Archaeological Mitigation Strategy for the planning permission application. — Undertake environmental sampling, laboratory testing and analysis of samples where required. — Provide advice and support to the Employer in cases where discovery of material is made on site. — Preparation of deposit models, where required. — Reporting. The estimated value of the above is 300 000 GBP. By submitting a return to this tender, the Consultant is confirming that it is able to deliver, as a minimum, all the Services listed above. Should you have any concerns about the ability to deliver these listed Services, please ensure that you contact the Employer during the tender process to get guidance as required. Although this contract is being let for use on the Southsea Coastal Defence scheme, should there be a requirement that the Employer requires assistance on one of the other schemes it is running during the contract term; they reserve the right to ask the successful Supplier if they wish to bid for the work. Any additional Services let through this contract could add an additional 50 000 GBP to the value of the contract. The proposed procurement timetable is as follows: Invitation to tender pack made available on InTend: 17.7.2017 Deadline for requests for clarification: 3.8.2017 Tender return deadline: 17.8.2017 at 12:00 Deadline for return of Company Reference Questionnaires: 17.8.2017 Evaluation of tender returns completed by: 31.8.2017 Notification of Successful and unsuccessful tenders: 1.9.2017 Standstill: 2.9.2017 — 11.9.2017 Contract Award: 12.9.2017 Pre-Contract meeting: 12.9.2017 Contract commencement / site access: 21.9.2017 End of contract: 31.1.2025 Options for extension to: 31.1.2026 All tender documents are available to download via InTend: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/portsmouthcc/aspx/home