Official UK procurement notice
Lead Consultant Architectural and Design Services
Authority: Colchester and North East Essex Building Preservation Trust
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLed by North Essex Heritage (NEH), the Jumbo Water Tower Project in Colchester seeks to restore, convert, and extend a historically significant building into a vibrant, community asset with a commercial edge, enabling the rejuvenated tower to play as central a role in Colchester’s daily life as it once did when it provided the town with clean water.In order to identify the design team to assist in this transformation, and secure the necessary consents, North Essex Heritage are running a two-stage tender. The "Restricted" Procedure as set out in the UK by The Public Contracts Regulation 2015 (as amended) shall be followed for this procurement. The process comprises expressions of interest using a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire in the form of the Standard Selection Questionnaire (SQ), followed by a shortlisting of no more than 6 suitable candidates that will be invited to proceed to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage.As part of the ITT Tender return, shortlisted architect-led desi
CPV: Architectural design services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Price
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 7 Feb 2022, 14:12 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Jul 2022, 15:36 BST
- Authority reference
INT-CNEE001- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-018945- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0313f7Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 9 Mar 2022, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
9 Mar 2022 → 11 Jul 2022 · 4 dates- Submission deadline9 Mar 2022, 17:00 GMT
- Invitations to tender expected21 Mar 2022
- Contract starts6 Jun 2022, 00:00 BST
- Notice published11 Jul 2022, 15:36 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete11 Jul 2022, 15:36 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purcell Architecture Ltd | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 018945-2022-1 · Purcell Architecture Ltd
- Signed
- 29 Jun 2022
- Value
- —
- Period
- … – 19 Dec 2025
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Led by North Essex Heritage (NEH), the Jumbo Water Tower Project in Colchester seeks… | 3bids · 3 electronic | 3 | — | £433,120 – £609,439 |
| Whole notice | — | — | — | £433,120 – £609,439 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Purcell Architecture LImitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria