Buckinghamshire Highways Framework Two – Major Works

This Notice relates to Buckinghamshire Highways Framework Two – Major Works

Buckinghamshire Council (the Council) is the Highway Authority responsible for maintaining the highway network in Buckinghamshire.

The Council’s current integrated services contract is due to expire on 31 March 2023 and therefore the Council is commencing the procurement of its replacement service provision.

Following a fundamental review and wide consultation, the Council has identified a new service delivery model. The new model includes a Term Maintenance Contract and a Term Consultancy Contract (both currently in live procurement) and two separate multi-supplier frameworks:

Buckinghamshire Highways Framework One – Minor Works; and

Buckinghamshire Highways Framework Two – Major Works

This Notice relates to Framework Two - Major Works only (“the Framework Agreement”).

There is also a procurement commencing for Framework One – Minor Works under a different contract notice (DN612194), and economic operators interested in applying for Framework Two must refer to that contract notice for details of how to express an interest.

This framework will run for a four (4)-year duration although the Council reserves the right (subject to the procurement regime at the time) to extend this period by any period or periods up to a further four(4) years.

The Council intends that the successful Tenderers will form part of an alliance arrangement between the Council and one or more of the other highways contractors appointed by the Council as set out above.

Further details of the proposed works and services forming the scope of the Framework Agreement and its commercial terms (and those of the call-off contracts governing the works packages) are set out in the procurement documents, and full details will appear in the tender documentation accompanying the invitation to tender (ITT).

It is intended that the Council will award work under the Framework Agreement using a combination of direct award and mini-competition and will choose between these methods based on objective criteria which will appear in full in the Framework Agreement, along with:

• the objective criteria which, in the case of a direct award will determine to which supplier the works package will be awarded, and
• in the case of a mini-competition, the procedure and criteria to be used to select the supplier who will be awarded the works package.

The Council further reserves the right to issue “time charge orders” under the Framework Agreement in respect of feasibility, scoping or other initial services, as set out in the procurement documents.