Town hall clock tower repairs - Middlesbrough Council

MIDDLESBROUGH COUNCIL
Transport & Design Services

SELECT LIST OF TENDERERS FOR BUILDING WORKS
(Under Partnering Agreement)

TOWN HALL CLOCK TOWER - REPAIRS

Applications are invited from suitably experienced Contractors, with the
appropriate technical capabilities and financial resources, who wish to be
considered for inclusion on the Council's Select List of Tenderers to act
as Main Contractor for the repairs to the Town Hall Clock Tower in
Middlesbrough.

The works comprise external general repairs to the Grade 2* Listed
building. It is proposed that the works will be carried out under a
Partnering Agreement, with an estimated overall construction value of
£0.9m. It is anticipated that a suitable Contractor will be appointed in

August 2003 and the works will commence during September 2003.

The criteria for the award of contract will be based on an assessment of
cost, quality, previous experience (including partnering) and
sustainability.

Applicants MUST include the following information in their application:

c If a Company, proof of enrolment on a professional Trade Register, or
Register of Companies in the Country in which the Contract is established.

c Financial status and Banker's Statement.

c Balance sheets/accounts for the past three financial years, including a
statement of turnover on building work.

c Previous experience in building practice under a Partnering Agreement, or
their proposals for the Partnering process.

c A list of building works involving the external repair or refurbishment
of historic buildings over £0.5m carried out during the past five years,
the value and site of each job, the organisation for whom executed and
accompanied by certificates of satisfactory execution for the most
important works.

c Evidence of the Contractor's contribution to Sustainability issues.

c Evidence of the Contractor's educational and professional qualifications
and those of the firm's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the
persons responsible for carrying out the works.

c Statement of the support services which the Contractor can call upon for
carrying out the work, whether or not they belong to the firm.

c Statement of the firm's annual average manpower and the number of
managerial staff for the last three years.

c Statement of the Company's Health and Safety performance during the last
five years.

Interested Contractors should submit the above details to the Head of
Transport & Design Services, (Code THCT), Middlesbrough Council, PO Box 65,
Vancouver House, Central Mews, Gurney Street, Middlesbrough TS1 1QP to
arrive not later than noon on Wednesday 23 July 2003.