Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)

Tender description

The Materials to be delivered under this contract are to facilitate highway maintenance works to repair potholes and worn out carriageway carried out by County’s in-house operations teams. The existing frameworks for the supply of materials and products to the in-house operations teams expire at the end of July 2018. This framework will replace the current arrangements for four groups of highway materials and consists of a 3 year multi-supplier, countywide framework for the supply of highway maintenance materials. This will include all suppliers who meet the specification and will include price schedules for delivery to depot / site or collection from the batching plant / quarry with 4 lots as follows: — Lot 1: Bituminous materials (est. spend 1 100 000 GBP pa), — Lot 2: Ready Mix Concrete (est. spend 100k GBP pa), — Lot 3: Dry Aggregates (est. spend 80k GBP pa), — Lot 4: Cold Lay Asphalt (est. spend 250k GBP). Bituminous Coated Materials — The products are described as per BS EN 13108 (See specification for further details) The products are described as per BS EN 206:2013 (BS 8500 Parts 1 and 2 – Complementary British Standards to BS EN 206) All constituent materials [e.g. Cement and Aggregates] are manufactured to an harmonised standard and under the Construction Products Regulations are required to be CE marked and have been tested at source in accordance to relevant standards, namely: — Cement – BS EN 197-1: Cement – Part 1: Composition, specification and conformity criteria for common cements — Aggregates – BS EN 12620 – Aggregates for Concrete, — With guidance from BS8500 Part 2 (see specification for further details) Dry Aggregates — Standards as per specification Deferred Set Tarmac — See specification for further details.