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STC1177 - Provision of Specialist Lift Consultancy Services

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The Corporate Officer of the House of Lords and the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons acting jointly (the ‘Authority’) invited expressions of interest from suitably qualified organisations wishing to enter into a contract for the provision of specialist lift consultancy services. The appointed Consultant would support the Parliamentary Design Authority in its role as custodian of the lift engineering infrastructure on the Parliamentary Estate to review and update technical standards and a long-term strategy for lift modernisation. More specifically, the appointed Consultant would be required to deliver specialist services which included independent advisory support, to ensure the viability and quality of designs, as well as project support relating to refurbishment and maintenance programmes. The contract would be let based on the NEC4 Professional Services Short Contract. Lot 1: A non-exhaustive list of the services required to be delivered under the contract were:• Produce lift technical design briefs and design requirements for the Authority’s Lift projects, as well as work collaboratively with Lift delivery teams and prioritise the works on health and safety and business continuity objectives (as set out within the procurement documents). • Review and develop existing lift modernisation scope documents. • Produce feasibility studies to RIBA Stage 1 or equivalent, technical standards and engineering specifications. • Provide a technical design review of the proposals from Lift Delivery teams and monitor their work – this shall also include undertaking site inspections and witnessing.• Review lift traffic analysis from previous studies and project consultants and where necessary undertake new traffic analysis and propose optimum lift design strategy for the population and use patterns of the Parliamentary Estate.• Carry out whole of life costing with the view of ensuring that value for money is achieved by taking a holistic approach to design the lifts in relation to each other, traffic flow, building occupants, logistics, fire evacuation strategy, access control and security strategy, environment and sustainability, heritage and conservation and user priorities. • Undertake annual audits of the Authority’s Planned Preventative and Re-active Maintenance Contractor’s performance.The appointed Consultant’s staff shall have completed EOR/202 ‘Working Safely in an engineering environment – basic lift safety’, as required by BS7255 Safe Working on Lifts.The Authority reserved its position as to whether it will (or will not) enter into contractual arrangements. Subsequently, the publication of the procurement documents in no way commits the Authority to enter into any contractual relationship with the Tenderers or any other party.The Authority reserved the right to:- cancel, postpone, suspend or abort the selection and evaluation process at any stage of this procurement in its entirety;- vary the project timetable or procurement process, including without limitation, to introduce further submission requirements; and- amend, vary or digress from the process set out in the procurement documents. In the event of any change to the process, the Authority will inform all Tenderers of the change.The Authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home Interested organisations must register on this site to respond. The use of the In-tend e-tendering portal is compulsory and will be the main means of communication and exchange of documents between the Authority and prospective Tenderers, although the Authority reserves the right at its sole discretion to communicate and/or exchange documents by other means. Lot 1: A non-exhaustive list of the services required to be delivered under the contract were:• Produce lift technical design briefs and design requirements for the Authority’s Lift projects, as well as work collaboratively with Lift delivery teams and prioritise the works on health and safety and business continuity objectives (as set out within the procurement documents). • Review and develop existing lift modernisation scope documents. • Produce feasibility studies to RIBA Stage 1 or equivalent, technical standards and engineering specifications. • Provide a technical design review of the proposals from Lift Delivery teams and monitor their work – this shall also include undertaking site inspections and witnessing.• Review lift traffic analysis from previous studies and project consultants and where necessary undertake new traffic analysis and propose optimum lift design strategy for the population and use patterns of the Parliamentary Estate.• Carry out whole of life costing with the view of ensuring that value for money is achieved by taking a holistic approach to design the lifts in relation to each other, traffic flow, building occupants, logistics, fire evacuation strategy, access control and security strategy, environment and sustainability, heritage and conservation and user priorities. • Undertake annual audits of the Authority’s Planned Preventative and Re-active Maintenance Contractor’s performance.The appointed Consultant’s staff shall have completed EOR/202 ‘Working Safely in an engineering environment – basic lift safety’, as required by BS7255 Safe Working on Lifts.The Authority reserved its position as to whether it will (or will not) enter into contractual arrangements. Subsequently, the publication of the procurement documents in no way commits the Authority to enter into any contractual relationship with the Tenderers or any other party.The Authority reserved the right to:- cancel, postpone, suspend or abort the selection and evaluation process at any stage of this procurement in its entirety;- vary the project timetable or procurement process, including without limitation, to introduce further submission requirements; and- amend, vary or digress from the process set out in the procurement documents. In the event of any change to the process, the Authority will inform all Tenderers of the change.The Authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. The information and/or documents for this opportunity are available on https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home Interested organisations must register on this site to respond. The use of the In-tend e-tendering portal is compulsory and will be the main means of communication and exchange of documents between the Authority and prospective Tenderers, although the Authority reserves the right at its sole discretion to communicate and/or exchange documents by other means.

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Publish date

10 months ago

Close date

8 months ago

Buyer information

The Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

Contact:
Elli Nikolaou
Email:
nikolaoue@parliament.uk

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