Construction work for college buildings

Tender description

Nottingham College City Hub Project — principal contractor services Nottingham College City Hub Project is a scheme created through the merger in June 2017 of New College Nottingham and Central College Nottingham. To date a significant amount of thinking required to produce a holistic vision and delivery strategy has been completed, and a critical component of this is the development of the proposed City Hub Project. It is a long-standing aim to reduce the number of operational sites and consolidate in the centre of Nottingham, providing modern exciting spaces in which students can learn. The route to market will be through a Restricted Procedure via OJEU PIN and sSQ, into a 2-stage competitive ITT, with the appointment of a single Preferred Bidder (PB) under a PCSA (Pre-Construction Services Agreement) anticipated in early 2018. The second stage under the PCSA will be negotiated into Contract award, with a high degree of market-testing of elemental work packages during this final stage. The PB will undertake the discharge of Statutory Approvals including Planning Conditions, the development of the RIBA Stage 4 design in partnership with the Client, Market-testing the price, with the aim of entering into Contract in mid-2018 to commence construction works on Site 3Q18.