Notice Information
Notice Title
Highway Maintenance, Design, Construction and Other Services - CPU 455.
Notice Description
The Highways Contract is for the contractor to develop, with the Council, a high performing comprehensive highways service. The Highways Contract encompasses highway maintenance, design, construction, transport planning consultancy, with other services including but not limited to vehicle and grounds maintenance. On 13 July 2010 the Council entered into the Highways Contract with Atkins Limited ("Atkins") to provide the above works following a tender process commenced by contract notice 2008/S 210-279078 dated 29 October 2008. The Highways Contract is for a contract period of 10 years commencing 1 April 2010, extendable by up to a further 10 years. So far, the contract has been extended by three years so that the contract period expires end of March 2023. The values set out at II.2.7 of this VEAT Notice represent the estimated remaining value of the Highways Contract across the possible remaining term. Atkins contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Skanska Construction UK Limited ("Skanska"). The sale proceeded by way of an asset sale and included the plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Atkins, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also included the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council. The Highways Contract between the Council and Atkins permitted assignment by Atkins of the benefit of the Contract with the consent of the Council. Atkins requested consent to assign the benefit of the Contract to Skanska and the Council consented to such assignment. The Highways Contract also provided that the original Provider should remain legally responsible for performance of the Contract, even if the benefit of the Contract is assigned. The Council relied on this provision. A VEAT notice was published in OJEU. Skanska have contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Milestone Infrastructure Limited. The sale will proceed by way of an asset sale, and will include plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Skanska, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also includes the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Highways Contract is for the contractor to develop, with the Council, a high performing comprehensive highways service. The Highways Contract encompasses highway maintenance, design, construction, transport planning consultancy, with other services including but not limited to vehicle and grounds maintenance. On 13 July 2010 the Council entered into the Highways Contract with Atkins Limited ("Atkins") to provide the above works following a tender process commenced by contract notice 2008/S 210-279078 dated 29 October 2008. The Highways Contract is for a contract period of 10 years commencing 1 April 2010, extendable by up to a further 10 years. So far, the contract has been extended by three years so that the contract period expires end of March 2023. The values set out at II.2.7 of this VEAT Notice represent the estimated remaining value of the Highways Contract across the possible remaining term. Atkins contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Skanska Construction UK Limited ("Skanska"). The sale proceeded by way of an asset sale and included the plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Atkins, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also included the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council. The Highways Contract between the Council and Atkins permitted assignment by Atkins of the benefit of the Contract with the consent of the Council. Atkins requested consent to assign the benefit of the Contract to Skanska and the Council consented to such assignment. The Highways Contract also provided that the original Provider should remain legally responsible for performance of the Contract, even if the benefit of the Contract is assigned. The Council relied on this provision. A VEAT notice was published in OJEU. Skanska have contracted to sell its highways maintenance business to Milestone Infrastructure Limited. The sale will proceed by way of an asset sale, and will include plant and equipment required to operate the highways maintenance business of Skanska, the transfer of leases or rights to use properties and facilities previously used by the highways maintenance business, and the transfer of approximately 1,200 employees, including around 80 in the central management and business support functions. It also includes the transfer of customer contracts, including the Highways Contract with the Council.
Procurement Information
This Voluntary Transparency Notice gives notice that Oxfordshire County Council (the "Council") intends to enter into a contract in the form of a Deed of Novation (the "Deed of Novation") to novate an underlying public works contract (the "Contract") to Milestone Infrastructure Limited ("Milestone"). The Council considers the effect of entering into the Deed of Novation to be a permitted modification to the Contract under regulation 72 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, as such, does not require a separate procurement procedure. In particular, the novation to Milestone falls within the safe harbour at regulation 72(1)(d) on the basis that a new contractor replaces the one to which the Council had initially awarded the Contract. More specifically: 1. Milestone is replacing the original contractor following a corporate restructuring in the form of a business sale to Milestone. This business sale has the consequence of the universal succession of Milestone into the position of the initial contractor (within the meaning of regulation 72(1)(d)(ii)); 2. Milestone fulfils the criteria for qualitative selection initially established in the procurement of Contract; and 3. The novation of the Contract to Milestone does not entail any other substantial modifications to the contract, and is not aimed at circumventing the application of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. For the reasons set out in this notice, the modification to the Contract by way of the Deed of Novation is permitted under the Public Contract Regulations 2015, and a new procurement procedure is not required. The Council has not yet entered into the Deed of Novation but intends to do so as soon as practicable following a ten day standstill period starting from the date after publication of this notice.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-029cb8
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005447-2021
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Works
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
45 - Construction work
50 - Repair and maintenance services
71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
77 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
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- CPV Codes
45000000 - Construction work
45221100 - Construction work for bridges
50000000 - Repair and maintenance services
50100000 - Repair, maintenance and associated services of vehicles and related equipment
71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
77000000 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 17 Mar 20214 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 17 Mar 20214 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Ms Amy Keylock
- Contact Email
- amy.keylock@oxfordshire.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7392318916
Buyer Location
- Locality
- OXFORD
- Postcode
- OX1 1ND
- Post Town
- Oxford
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC
- Delivery Location
- TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC
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- Local Authority
- Oxford
- Electoral Ward
- Osney & St Thomas
- Westminster Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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