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Highways and Infrastructure Professional Services Contract: {"award_values":[],"buyer":"Norfolk County Council","buyer_reference":"NCCT43472","contact_email":"sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk","contact_name":null,"contact_restrictions":[],"contacts":[{"email":"sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk","organisation":"Norfolk County Council"},{"email":"intpitchteam@twobirds.com","organisation":"BIRD & BIRD LLP"},{"email":"brett.rivett@btinternet.com","organisation":"B G R COMMERCIAL LIMITED"}],"contract_terms":[{"endDate":"2032-11-30T23:59:59Z","maxExtentDate":"2040-03-31T23:59:59Z","startDate":"2027-07-28T00:00:00+01:00"}],"cpv":[{"description":"Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis","id":"71241000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Civil engineering consultancy services","id":"71311000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Environmental engineering consultancy services","id":"71313000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Engineering design services","id":"71320000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Marine survey services","id":"71354500","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Technical planning services","id":"71356400","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Urban planning services","id":"71410000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Construction consultancy services","id":"71530000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services","id":"71600000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Computer-site planning consultancy services","id":"72130000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Project management consultancy services","id":"72224000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Marine research services","id":"73112000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Economic impact assessment","id":"79311410","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Business and management consultancy services","id":"79410000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Environmental impact assessment other than for construction","id":"90711000","scheme":"CPV"},{"description":"Environmental issues consultancy services","id":"90713000","scheme":"CPV"}],"currency":"GBP","days_to_deadline":28,"deadline":"2026-11-02T10:00:00Z","deadline_conflict":false,"deadline_kind":"PARTICIPATION","deadline_narrative":"","deadline_structured":"2026-11-02T10:00:00Z","deadline_time_unpublished":false,"demo_evidence":[],"direct_contact_evidence":["+44 8442728810 or e-mailing support@in-tend.co.uk"],"engagement_route":"","estimated_value":86300000,"expansion_scope":"Complete official OCDS release; linked restricted documents require separate verification.","extensions":[{"description":"As part of this Procurement, the Council intends to explore the duration of and conditions attached to any extensions, and will engage the Applicants shortlisted to participate in the next stage of the Procurement to understand their views on the optimal Contract period, including whether any option to extend should be linked to particular requirements.\nCurrently, the Council envisages that:\n1. the anticipated initial term of the Contract will incorporate a mobilisation period following the starting date (such length to be agreed with the appointed consultant), followed by a service period of five (5) years, such service period currently intended to commence November 2027; and\n2. it will hold the right to extend the service period beyond the initial five (5) year term by one or more further period(s) up to 31 March 2040 in accordance with the terms of the Contract, in order to allow this Contract to be coterminous with the Council's works contract, if necessary or desirable."}],"fully_expanded":true,"geographic_scope":[[{"country":"GB","countryName":"United Kingdom","region":"UKH14"},{"country":"GB","countryName":"United Kingdom","region":"UKH15"},{"country":"GB","countryName":"United Kingdom","region":"UKH16"},{"country":"GB","countryName":"United Kingdom","region":"UKH17"}]],"hidden_opportunity":true,"historical_engagement_evidence":"","incumbent_evidence":[],"linked_documents":[{"description":"Not published","documentType":"conflictOfInterest","id":"conflictOfInterest"},{"datePublished":"2026-09-29T18:42:07+01:00","description":"Tender notice on Find a Tender","documentType":"tenderNotice","format":"text/html","id":"092090-2026","noticeType":"UK4","url":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/092090-2026"}],"lot_count":1,"lot_scope":[{"description":null,"id":"1","title":null,"value":{"amount":86300000,"amountGross":103560000,"currency":"GBP"}}],"meeting_evidence":["The launch of the Procurement follows a period of sustained preliminary market engagement during which the Council engaged with prospective bidders regarding: (i) the approach to the Procurement (including the timeline, dialogue sessions, and possible award criteria); and (ii) the proposed approach to the Contract and scope of services under it.","The Council has designed a lean, dialogue-focused approach to the Procurement that leverages the full flexibility afforded to it by the Act.","A period of dialogue will take place where the Council will provide feedback to the shortlisted Applicants regarding their initial tender response.","During the course of the Procurement, the Council anticipates the following topics will be discussed during dialogue:","Further details regarding dialogue will be set out in the ISIT.","Although the Council will discuss and comment on quality and price responses, it is not for the Council to raise every weakness in responses in its review of initial tenders or during dialogue.","During dialogue, bidders will be able to refine their bid (including pricing), and the Council reserves the right to amend the Scope, pricing documents and terms and conditions of the Contract before requesting final tenders.","Following the dialogue meetings, the Council will invite final tenders giving bidders the opportunity to enhance their responses before submitting final tenders."],"notice_type":"TENDER","procurement_method":"Competitive flexible procedure","procurement_status":"active","publication_date":"2026-09-29T18:42:07+01:00","published_corrections":[],"published_notice_types":["UK4"],"published_requirement":"As described in the preliminary market engagement notice (https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/054636-2026) dated 10 June 2026 and the planned procurement notice (https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/085054-2026) dated 8 September 2026, Norfolk County Council (the \"Council\") is formally launching a procurement using the Competitive Flexible Procedure under section 20(2)(b) of the Procurement Act 2023 (the \"Procurement\") (the \"Act\") for a highways and infrastructure professional services contract (the \"Contract\").\nOn the launch of this Procurement, the Council is seeking suitably qualified applicants (the \"Applicants\") capable of integrating with the Council's wider highways team, delivering high-quality professional services in the Norfolk geographic area, and structuring its approach to the delivery of the Contract in a manner which is pragmatic, innovative, and cost-effective.\nThe launch of the Procurement follows a period of sustained preliminary market engagement during which the Council engaged with prospective bidders regarding: (i) the approach to the Procurement (including the timeline, dialogue sessions, and possible award criteria); and (ii) the proposed approach to the Contract and scope of services under it.\nThe Council has designed a lean, dialogue-focused approach to the Procurement that leverages the full flexibility afforded to it by the Act. The Procurement is designed to ensure that the principles of delivering value for money, maximising public benefit, sharing information with Applicants, acting with integrity, and facilitating SME participation are built into every stage of the process.\nFurther detail regarding the stages and requirements are contained within the Procurement documents which can be accessed through the In-Tend platform. Please note that all materials prepared and shared with the market during the preliminary market engagement phase are available on the In-Tend platform via the clarifications facility.\nA full breakdown of the scope of services forming part of the Contract is contained within the Procurement documents, including a draft scope made available with those documents. By way of illustration, the Council anticipates that the services required under the Contract, which will be carried out collaboratively with the Council's in-house teams, will include:\n• Highway design services, project delivery (including early contractor involvement and developing works orders), stakeholder engagement and consultation, and specialist expertise required for the development of highway maintenance, asset management, and capital improvement schemes\n• Major highway infrastructure and other design services (feasibility, preliminary and detailed including planning and other statutory approvals), through integrated design teams as well as wider resource provision (including necessary specialist resources) \n•Bridges and structures design and advisory services, including asset management, inspection and maintenance\n•Business case development, including in support of funding applications to funders such as the Department for Transport and Homes England (e.g., cost benefit analysis, carbon analysis, etc.)\n•Environmental and ecology services (including carbon assessment), archaeology and heritage advisory services\n•Travel and Transport planning advisory services (including strategic planning and travel planning services)\n•Intelligent transport services, future mobility services, and design and advisory services\n•Spatial planning (including master planning, planning applications, statutory services, carbon assessments and environmental impact assessments)\n•Maritime services (including supporting design and project delivery for coastal, harbour and river environments)\n•Flood and water management design and advisory services\n•Land, property and asset management advisory services\n•Economic development advisory services, including feasibility studies/assessments, strategic and project specific modelling, government engagement/lobbying, and associated reporting\n•Quantity surveying, costing, commercial and contract administration services\n•Development of tender documentation and tender evaluation support\n•Construction phase services\n•Surveys and investigations\n•Development research, and developer design and build agreement checks\n•Heat, energy, water and sewage advisory services\n•Waste services, including advice on residual waste, household waste recycling centres, waste facilities planning advice/application, permitting\nAs many prospective Applicants will be aware, the Council prepared this Procurement within the context of local government reorganisation (\"LGR\") and devolution (\"Devolution\") and had proceeded on the basis that government was minded as part of LGR to reorganise the various Norfolk councils into three new unitary authorities.\nOn 7 September 2026 the government withdrew that decision and announced a \"rapid review\" of its LGR programme in respect of Norfolk.\nWith regards to Devolution, on 4 December 2025, the then Secretary of State for Local Government made a written statement [UIN HCWS1128] stating that government intends to establish a Mayoral Strategic Authority for Norfolk and Suffolk as soon as possible, and that it was minded to hold inaugural mayoral elections in May 2028. The current secretary of state said, in her statement of 7 December 2026: \"The Prime Minister is really clear that the Government's ambition is to ensure that every area in England has, or is in the process of establishing, a strategic authority by the end of 2027, with strategic authorities in place everywhere by the end of 2028\".\nThe Council is keen to emphasise that, despite the announcement, prospective Applicants should be confident that, in launching this Procurement in this manner and at this time, it intends to address any future considerations which may arise as a result of LGR and/or Devolution in a collaborative, solutions-focused manner which, to the greatest extent possible, protects: (i) the delivery of the Contract in the Norfolk area; and (ii) the volume of work under, and the value of, the Contract, whilst at all times being respectful of the time and costs likely to be incurred by Applicants in competing for this Contract.\nThe values stated in this notice exclude indexation and mobilisation.","questionnaire_evidence":["As described in the preliminary market engagement notice (https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/054636-2026) dated 10 June 2026 and the planned procurement notice (https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/085054-2026) dated 8 September 2026, Norfolk County Council (the \"Council\") is formally launching a procurement using the Competitive Flexible Procedure under section 20(2)(b) of the Procurement Act 2023 (the \"Procurement\") (the \"Act\") for a highways and infrastructure professional services contract (the \"Contract\").","The launch of the Procurement follows a period of sustained preliminary market engagement during which the Council engaged with prospective bidders regarding: (i) the approach to the Procurement (including the timeline, dialogue sessions, and possible award criteria); and (ii) the proposed approach to the Contract and scope of services under it.","Please note that all materials prepared and shared with the market during the preliminary market engagement phase are available on the In-Tend platform via the clarifications facility."],"reference":"092090-2026","registration_evidence":["To participate in this procurement, applicants must first be registered on the system at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc","Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at https://intendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/BuyerProfiles","Once registered you will be able to see the procurement project under the `tenders` section and `express an interest` to view the documentation.","The Procurement Act 2023 requires bidders to be registered on Find a Tender (Central Digital Platform) before they are able to bid for contracts."],"relevance_evidence":{"ASSET_PORTAL_QR":["asset management","platform"]},"requirement_items":"\n","selection_requirements":[],"sme_suitability":[],"submission_method":"This procurement will be managed electronically via the Council`s e-procurement system. To participate in this procurement, applicants must first be registered on the system at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc\nFull instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at https://intendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/BuyerProfiles\nOnce registered you will be able to see the procurement project under the `tenders` section and `express an interest` to view the documentation. If you encounter any difficulties whilst using the system you can contact the In-tend support team by phoning\n+44 8442728810 or e-mailing support@in-tend.co.uk\nThe Procurement Act 2023 requires bidders to be registered on Find a Tender (Central Digital Platform) before they are able to bid for contracts. Should you wish to bid for this contract when it is live it is essential that you do this. Instructions on what needs to be done can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsbVW4q-k0","value_excluding_vat":86300000,"value_including_vat":103560000,"value_minimum":null,"value_scope":"TOTAL_NOTICE_NOT_PURA_ADDRESSABLE","vat_basis":"excl. VAT"}

SOURCE: find_a_tender_ocds · public evidence

OBSERVED: 2026-10-04T18:00:19+00:00 · EVENT: 2026-09-29T18:42:07+01:00

INFERENCE: [{"basis":{"ASSET_PORTAL_QR":["asset management","platform"]},"type":"HIDDEN_ADDRESSABLE_ELEMENT"}]

UNKNOWNS: None recorded