Engineering services

Tender description

The Environment Agency sought the provision of support services to help deliver its programme of capital investment and improvement works for flood defence assets (both fixed and active), as well as wider business requirements, in a way that delivers sustainable, best value outcomes. The client support framework consists of 2 lots: Lot 1: Technical Delivery Support; Lot 2: Contract, Cost and Carbon Management Support. Each lot covers a national delivery requirement. The Environment Agency sought the provision of support services to help deliver its programme of capital investment and improvement works for flood defence assets (both fixed and active), as well as wider business requirements, in a way that delivers sustainable, best value outcomes. Lot 1 provides technical delivery support to the Environment Agency and to other public sector bodies (as listed under section VI.3 additional information), across a range of services that may include (but are not limited to): — new engineering contract (NEC) engineering and construction contract (ECC) site supervisors, — Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM) principal designers, — CDM client support roles, — environmental clerks of work, — bought in services: technical staff; national environmental, — assessment service (NEAS) environmental project managers (Environmental Assurance and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), landscape architects, archaeology), — independent technical assurance and advice: engineering; economics; sustainability and environmental; mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation (MEICA) and reliability engineering; low carbon designs; asset management general consultancy support; assessment of asset reliability, and reliability engineering; support for strategic spatial planning and infrastructure work, statutory planning response work and permitting), — strategic environmental assessments (SEAs) support, — building information modelling (BIM) support, — reservoir engineering services: panel engineers; supervising engineers; and surveying, — flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) research, — environmental assessment research, — technical advice: geographical information systems (GIS), — construction health, safety and well-being guidance, assurance and support, — other technical delivery support activities/services as required to support delivery programmes. The Environment Agency sought the provision of support services to help deliver its programme of capital investment and improvement works for flood defence assets (both fixed and active), as well as wider business requirements, in a way that delivers sustainable, best value outcomes. Lot 2 provides contract, cost and carbon management support to the Environment Agency and to other public sector bodies (as listed under section VI.3 additional information), across a range of services that may include (but are not limited to): — new engineering contract (NEC) engineering and construction contract (ECC) project managers, — project cost managers, — bought in services for project and programme management, — integrated cost and carbon target setting, forecasting, actuals, assurance and reporting, estimating, modelling and benchmarking using a full suite of top-down and bottom-up approaches, — cost and price investigation and supplier bid assurance in collaborative, single-source commercial environments, — risk identification and evaluation, including probabilistic approaches, — project controls (including gathering, analysing, monitoring, reporting and managing costs on an on-going basis), — data and digital assurance (develop our approach to digital technology and modelling to support EA decision making and assurance activities), — data analysis and reporting (deriving new knowledge from data, detailed analysis of a range of data including information that may sit outside of the EA, including business intelligence (BI) tools and approaches and associated programming capability), — client programme, performance and portfolio management support and advice, — client commercial advice, assurance and support, — risk workshop facilitation, — other cost, contract and carbon management activities/services as required to support delivery programmes, — ancillary non-FCRM support services.