GB-Braintree: Sustainability Appraisal Consultancy Services
Competitive Contract Notice
1. Title: GB-Braintree: Sustainability Appraisal Consultancy Services
2. Awarding Authority:
Braintree District Council
Causeway House, Braintree, CM7 9HB, United Kingdom
Tel. 01376 551414, Fax. 01376 557792, Email: procurement@braintree.gov.uk, URL: www.braintree.gov.uk
Contact: Procurement Department, Attn: Will Baxter
3. Contract Type: Services
Sub Type: Research and development services.
4. Description: Research and development services and related consultancy services. Braintree District Council (BDC) is commissioning consultants to undertake a Sustainability Appraisal (SA) on the emerging Local Plan as required by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. The SA should meet all the requirements of the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004. The consultants will be required to work interactively with the Council throughout the Local Plan process through implementing the following stages of the SA process; Stage A – Evidence Gathering and Scoping Report; Stage B – Developing and Refining Options; Stage C – Prepare the SA report; Stage D – Consulting on SA and Local Plan/Examination and Stage E – Post Adoption Reporting and Monitoring. Consultants will also be required to review existing Habitat Regulation Assessment (HRA) documents produced for the Core Strategy, and subsequent comments and recommendations and where appropriate build upon this in preparing a HRA for the emerging Local Plan.
5. CPV Codes:
73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services.
6. NUTS Codes :
UKH3 - Essex
7. Main Site or Location of Works, Main Place of Delivery or Main Place of Performance: Essex,
8. Reference Attributed by the Awarding Authority: PROC14-0113
9. Estimated Value of Requirement: Category J: 25K to 50K
Currency: GBP
10. Deadline for Expression of Interest: 05/09/2014 00:00:00
11. Address to which they must be sent:
Braintree District Council
Causeway House, Braintree, CM7 9HB, United Kingdom
Tel. 01376 551414, Fax. 01376 557792, Email: procurement@braintree.gov.uk, URL: www.braintree.gov.uk
Contact: Procurement Department, Attn: Will Baxter
12. Other Information:
Other Information: To express an interest in this opportunity please send an email containing your company name, contact point and email address to procurement@braintree.gov.uk referencing "PROC14-0113 - SA Consultancy" by the deadline stated above. Further documentation will be sent after this deadline.The contracting 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, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
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TKR-2014822-PRO-5946036
Period of Work Start date: 10/09/2014
Period of Work End date: 01/09/2017
Award Criteria: Most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the tender documents
Funding: N/A
Is this a Framework Agreement?: no