Scaffolding

Tender description

The contracting entity intends to establish a framework arrangement under which it shall appoint economic operators to enter into separate Framework Agreements for the provision of Hire, Erection and Dismantling of Scaffold services across separate lots, as follows: — Lot 1: Hire, Erection and Dismantling of Scaffold (distribution overhead lines), and — Lot 2: Hire, Erection and Dismantling of Scaffold (distribution and transmission substations and transmission overhead lines). Each Framework Agreement will be for a period of five (5) years with an option, exercisable entirely at the discretion of the contracting entity and subject to the terms of the Framework Agreement, to extend by a further optional period of up to three (3) years, with a total potential duration of eight (8) years. The contracting entity estimates that the total spend under the Framework Agreements could be up to 4 820 000 GBP. This lot will include: — hire, erection and dismantling of scaffold (distribution overhead lines), — the design, erection, inspection and dismantling of scaffold to facilitate NIE Networks’ operations associated with: —— the erection/maintenance/replacement of electricity poles, —— the installation and repair of low voltage undereave wires and cables at customer properties, — erection and dismantling of scaffold to facilitate NIE Networks’ fault and emergency response works where required. It is intended that the contracting entity will enter into a Framework Agreement with 1 economic operator for this lot (in the form attached at Appendix M of the tender documents) with call-off contracts allocated on a direct award basis, as set out in the call-off Procedure (in Appendix C of the tender documents). This lot will include: — hire, erection and dismantling of scaffold (distribution and transmission substations and transmission overhead lines), — the design, erection, inspection and dismantling of scaffold to facilitate NIE Networks’ operations associated with: —— the installation/maintenance/replacement of substation plant and apparatus, —— the erection/maintenance/replacement of electricity poles and towers, —— road side protection schemes to assist with raising and lowering of overhead lines, — erection and dismantling of scaffold to facilitate NIE Networks’ fault and emergency response works where required. It is intended that the contracting entity will enter into a Framework Agreement with 1 economic operator for this lot (in the form attached at Appendix M of the tender documents) with call-off contracts allocated on a direct award basis, as set out in the call-off Procedure (in Appendix C of the Tender Documents).