Highways Term Service Contract

Milton Keynes City Council (the ‘Authority’) invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced organisations in relation to its contract for the delivery of a programme of term maintenance and capital works projects across its network of highways and infrastructure in Milton Keynes (the ‘Contract’). The works and services to be provided under the Contract are comprehensive and cover all the routine, reactive and planned works that need to be delivered by the Authority to achieve the outcomes set out in the Contract. The Authority is seeking a contractor to deliver the works and services in a manner that will maximise the use of the latest technology, processes and management techniques to deliver high quality services that are customer focused, right first time and provide excellent value for money for the Authority whilst supporting and enhancing the Authority’s values and aims.

The procurement is for the Authority’s contract for highways and infrastructure services (‘Highway Services’).The Authority is seeking a single contract to provide integrated services and capital works as described in Section II.1.4 (Short Description).The Authority will implement the procurement procedure in successive stages - further information is set out in the procurement documents. To express interest, economic operators must complete and return responses to the selection questionnaire (SQ) (which uses the PAS91 form) in accordance with the instructions set out in the procurement documentation. The Authority’s needs and requirements for the Contract are included in the procurement documents published with this notice.This procurement is undertaken pursuant to the competitive procedure with negotiation using an electronic tendering system. Economic operators will need to register on the portal to participate and the registration is free. All documentation is available from and all communication is to be conducted via the portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/milton-keynes/This procurement shall take place in successive stages as referenced in Regulation 29(19) of the PCR. Following submission of the completed SQs, the Authority will apply the selection criteria, as set out in the procurement documentation. Based upon the selection criteria set out in the SQ, the Authority intends to shortlist and invite the top five (5) scoring economic operators to progress from the SQ stage to the invitation to participate in negotiation and submission of initial tender stage provided there are sufficient economic operators that submit and pass the SQ stage.Each of the economic operators shortlisted at the SQ stage will be invited to submit initial tenders. Following the evaluation of the initial tenders, in accordance with the evaluation methodology set out in the procurement documentation, the Authority will, either make an award based on the initial tenders or, as is the Authority’s current intention, invite the economic operators to participate in negotiation. Following conclusion of the negotiation the Authority shall invite the economic operators to submit final tenders. The final tenders shall be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation methodology set out in the procurement documentation and the Authority shall make an award accordingly. The Authority reserves the right to add stages or revise this process and/or to discontinue all or part of this procurement process at any stage at any time and not to award a contract for some or all of the Highway Services for which responses are invited for any reason.