Official UK procurement notice
VEAT Notice - Bath Western Riverside (BWR)
Authority: Bath & North East Somerset Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is not a tender opportunity.
This VEAT is to inform the market of the Council’s intention to enter into a series of contractual arrangements, including a remediation and enabling works agreement (REWA), to support a package of remediation and enabling works at the Bath Western Riverside Phase II site, informally known as the ‘gas lands’ (Site). The works at the Site will be funded by grant monies from the Homes and Communities Agency (Homes England) Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF). The Council’s long term ambition is the redevelopment of the Site into residential housing.
The Site is part owned by the Council and part owned by a housing developer, St William Homes LLP (part of the Berkeley group). The Council is party to a land swap agreement dated 27 January 2022 (LSA) with Berkeley which enables the parties to swap areas of their individual land holdings, as the current land ownership boundaries of the Site limit opportunities for development for both parties.
Continues II.2.4 below.
CPV: Land rehabilitation work · Reclamation of waste land · Site preparation and clearance work · Soil-decontamination work
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 1 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The LSA once triggered will create two viable development plotsAwarded
The LSA once triggered will create two viable development plots. Prior to the triggering of the LSA, the Council and Berkeley propose to complete remediation and enabling works as a single package across the entire Site as part of a joint remediation strategy. The Council’s advisers have recommended this is necessary to prevent the cross-contamination of the Site and will in addition create efficiencies for the Council.
Under the terms of the REWA, Berkeley shall volunteer to act as Site wide contractor for the benefit of both the land Berkeley currently owns, alongside parts of the Council’s current landholding, which Berkeley will ultimately own once the LSA is triggered (noting that Berkeley alone controls the trigger mechanisms for the swap under the LSA and that there are no scenarios whereby the land swap between the Council and Berkeley under the LSA does not take place). In return for granting Berkeley access to the Council’s land, the REWA will include warranties to the Council for the works that shall accrue only if Berkeley completes the remediation works under the REWA, whenever that may be.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Jul 2024, 16:03 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Jul 2024, 16:03 BST
- Authority reference
DN728194- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-023278- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0484bcFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The Council considers that for the purposes of the PCR the REWA and related agreements constitute a land arrangement between the Council and Berkeley. Land arrangements are outside the scope of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) (“PCR”).
There is no positive enforceable obligation for Berkeley to deliver the works under the REWA or any other related agreement. The works to the Council-owned land on the Site are not delivered for the direct economic benefit of the Council but for Berkeley’s own future benefit once it becomes landowner following the land swap under the LSA.
- Review procedure
In accordance with Regulation 88 to Regulation 102 of the PCR 2015 (particularly, Regulations 92, 93, 94 and 99 in relation to deadlines).
Publisher note: The estimated value in V.2.4 and II.1.7 relates to the capital cost of the works to the Council owned land on the Site.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 023278-2024-1
- Signed
- 15 Jul 2024
- Value
- £4,869,225
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The High Court of JusticeReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- ST WILLIAM HOMES LLPFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.