Fire Stopping Works - Measured Term Contract

Tender description

The principal objective of the work is to improve passive fire protection in the SCC building, which is a Victorian school building used for storage of historical artefacts, and the main Museum, which is Grade II* Listed and is a major public attraction. The works required can be summarized within four distinct work streams: fire doors, fire stopping, fire-resisting glazing and loft sub-division. The Horniman wishes to appoint a suitably qualified contractor who can demonstrate competence by virtue of third-party certification against a recognized competency scheme for passive fire protection. These may include the following schemes:  LPS 1531.  Q-Mark by BM Trada.  FIRAS Certification.  IFC Certification. The contractor must be able to demonstrate certification by a recognized scheme and must commit to deliver the works in accordance with the Scheme requirements. The contractor will design and deliver all works in accordance with their relevant Scheme accreditation. The sites are fully operational, occupied and staffed storage facility that houses the majority of the museum's collection and a museum open to the public. As such, extreme care is required when working within the building and around the stored collection. Paying particular attention to mitigating the impact of dust, debris, water, accidental damage and safe systems of work especially around the moving and use of ladders and access equipment. The effective management of health and safety risks and programme is considered key for the successful delivery of these works with all work to be completed before the 31st March 2023. The fixed term element of the contract is to allow for further remedial works in the following year. A compliant tender requires tender submission all of the required information to be submitted in digital format to be received by the Horniman Museum by 12 noon Wednesday 15th February 2023. We will not accept tender submissions from companies who have not undertaken a site visit. Please contact Adele Harrington (Project Co-ordinator) on aharrington@horniman.ac.uk to book a site visit, which will be undertaken as group visits at the SCC. Time slots available for the SCC site visit: - Tuesday 7th February 10.30 am - Monday 13th February 10.30 am Site visits to The Horniman Museum can take place anytime during the museums opening times. The areas are open to the public and supervision is not required. Please note, we are anticipating a number of responses to this tender opportunity. Therefore the adjudication panel will be undertaking a two stage scoring method. All compliant tenders will be initially assessed and scored according to their cost submissions (representing a maximum of 60% of the total score available). Once these have been assessed we will then undertake the quality assessment and scoring for the four most economically competitive tenders only. The tender returns will be assessed on the following weighting: 60% Cost 40% Quality