Provision of Prioritised Capital Maintenance Programme 22/23 – Corporate Properties

Cumbria County Council is seeking to appoint two consultants to manage the delivery of planned maintenance works in corporate buildings across Cumbria over the next financial year 2022/23.

The Council will allocate an overall budget (inclusive of all costs and fees) of between £3-4m annually for the programme, comprising circa 50-60 individual projects, which will be divided into two packages of work to be delivered by Area, i.e.

1. Westmorland and Furness (Barrow, Eden & South Lakeland)

2. Cumberland (Allerdale, Carlisle & Copeland)

to reflect the two new authorities, which will be in place from April 2023.

Cumbria is currently undergoing a local government reorganisation and Government has announced that Cumbria County Council is to be replaced by two unitary authorities with effect from 01 April 2023. Cumbria County Council shall be entitled to novate the Contract to any successor council as defined in The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Transfer of Functions, Property, Rights and Liabilities) Regulations 2008.

Cumbria County Council’s main aim is to ensure that its corporate estate is maintained to a safe, wind and watertight condition, as a minimum.

The Corporate Estate includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Care Homes
• Highways Depots
• Fire Stations
• Offices
• Adult Day Centres
• Family Centres
• Children’s Centres
• Children’s Centres
• Libraries

The Council intends that construction works included in the programme are to be executed generally between 11 April 2022 and 31 March 2023.

Resources within the Cumbria construction sector become very stretched during the school summer holidays and the Council will want wherever possible to extend projects over the whole 12 months, avoiding this period for corporate works, where appropriate. This is to mitigate as much as possible the inevitable pressure of delivery of a significant number of projects in the six week school summer holidays.

The Council wishes to see work packaged as much as possible – for example work of a similar nature delivered at different properties as a single package; or work to corporate buildings within a geographically defined area delivered as a single package, where practical or economically advantageous to do so. Additional information: Suppliers wishing to express an interest and obtain access to the tender documents should

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Cumbria County Council is fully supportive of all aspects of diversity including ethnicity,

race, religion, age, disability and sexual orientation. In this respect Cumbria County Council

welcomes expressions of interest from ethnic minority, disabled and other diverse business

communities and the voluntary sector. Economic operators are therefore required to fully

comply with all statutory obligations/applicable legislation and there will be a requirement

to participate in the Authority's supplier audits on all aspects of diversity.

The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right:

(i) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by

publication of this notice; and

(ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering

competition; and

in no circumstances will the Contracting Authority be liable for any costs incurred by the

candidates.

In no circumstances will the contracting authority be liable for any costs incurred by the candidates. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of potential suppliers. The contracting authority reserve the right to use any electronic portal during the life of the agreement. The value provided in section II.1.5) is only an estimate.