Assynt Motorhome Waste Disposal Facilities and Carpark Work

Tender description

Works to: install Motorhome waste disposal facilities in Assynt Leisure Centre car park; extend and resurface areas of the car park, including boulder removal and fitting of porous paving; split existing combined sewer of Assynt Leisure Centre, install foul waste containment tank; connect services to Scottish Water sewers, including road excavation for sewer pipeline laying and connection, and complete submissions to Scottish Water in terms of DOMS & RAMS requirements and permissions, including relating to existing buried SW water main passing through the site area. Works to: install above-ground Motorhome foul waste disposal unit, and connected below-ground foul waste storage/containment tank of around 20m3 volume, with fittings for emptying by 3rd party waste contractor tanker lorry; install small wooden 3-sided structure for blocking waste disposal unit from wind and general sight; install potable water taps, one for filling of motorhome fresh water tanks, and one for cleaning of motorhome toilet cassettes, with drains beneath both; extending existing car park by removal of bouldered areas and adding carpark surfacing etc; complete submissions to Scottish Water in terms of DOMS & RAMS requirements and permissions, in advance of related project works relating to existing buried SW water main passing through the site area. Works since removed from the final contracted works, which were included in tender: install ground-level grilled motorhome grey water emptying point, and below ground sewer from this to SW foul sewer, and with raised prevention of greywater spillage onto car park and of rainwater running into greywater emptying point; resurfacing existing carpark gravel surface with a combination of tarmac and porous paving (this element now replaced with resurfacing in Type 1 material); install SUDS pipework etc beneath carpark surface as per design drawings; split existing combined sewer of Assynt Leisure Centre, as per design drawings; connect services to Scottish Water foul and surface water sewers, including road excavation for sewer pipeline laying and connection. nb. The original tendered works were tendered for by two contractors, both of whom priced works above our funding budget. We therefore invited both to re-price for a reduced scope of works. One of them did so, and this award of contract is for those reduced works at the price that tenderer submitted.