Northamptonshire County Council — Managing Agent Strategic Joint Venture.

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Northamptonshire County Council — Managing Agent Strategic Joint Venture.

NCC propose to establish a Managing Agent Strategic Joint Venture (MA SJV) with a private sector partner (PSP) to provide strategic advice and services in respect of NCC Place Directorate Services covering assets and associated services. The Managing Agent will drive efficiencies across existing works and services and new works and services to support NCC in meeting and exceeding Council objectives and financial targets. The private sector partner should bring resources, financing and innovative ideas to maximise revenue savings (and income generation) plus capital efficiencies from NCC's diverse portfolio of assets. The Managing Agent will provide Strategic activities (business cases, feasibility studies, innovation in asset use), Delivery Management activities (procurement, project management, commercial management of capital works and other project/contracts) with Integrator (supply-chain management) and Operator activities (managing Directorate responsibilities).

Services provided by the MA SJV will be:

1 Strategic Services — providing consultancy services to support (i) NCC in delivering efficiencies, rationalisation and transformation of estate assets, place and infrastructure objectives and (ii) NCC to achieve efficiencies rationalisation and transformation in Operator Services functions and responsibilities conferred on the MA SJV. This involves reviewing estate assets and services, advising on existing & future PFI contract and other contract management and strategy, feasibility studies, service design, market analysis, soft-market testing, utilisation assessments, programme planning, master-planning and related design services & proposing business cases for new projects or services to be procured through Delivery Management Services.

2. Delivery Management Services — includes raising finance and investment, preparing and conducting procurement exercises on behalf of NCC in respect of capital works including through PFI and other types of capital works contracts and services contracts in relation to estates, place and infrastructure objectives and (ii) NCC to support Operator Services functions outcomes. These services will also include project and contract management of capital works and other project and service contract to achieve business case outcomes and contracted standards in a timely, cost-effective and safe manner. It will cover NCC’s existing capital programme on appointment and future capital projects and other projects and services contracts delivered pursuant to the MA SJV’s business cases.

3. Integrator Services involves providing best in class contract management of services for a range of existing Directorate supply-chain contracts. Integrator Services also involves contract management services in respect of future asset, place and infrastructure contracts for NCC and also future contracts source to support NCC Operator Services function outcomes. This may involve the contract management of NCC's future Waste Management & Highways Maintenance contracts. Integrator Services can be in respect of contracts held by NCC, or held by the MA SJV on their behalf as a contract and project management hub serving those authorities.

NCC's existing PFI, Waste Management & Highway Maintenance contracts will not be transferred to the MA SJV as part of Integrator Services but NCC may commission ad hoc consultancy services support as appropriate in relation to these contracts as part of Strategic Services (or possibly Integrator Services)."

4. Operator Services involves responsibilities and management of NCC's Place Services functions conferred on the MA SJV. These functions include the following current In-House Place Directorates: Physical Assets including Corporate Asset Management & Exploitation and Capital Programme Management; PFI Management including Street Lighting, Schools and Shaw Health; Economy including Economic & Commercial Development and Infrastructure & Delivery; Environmental including strategic land-use; Planning/Minerals and Waste Planning; Environmental & Carbon Management; Flood & Water Management; Highways & Transport including all Highways and Transport Infrastructure Services; Waste Management including Disposal & Treatment of Waste and HWRCs; Culture & Heritage including Archives & Heritage and Heritage Gateway.

The scope of services is for a managing agent i.e. service providers and does not include the direct provision of Capital works or services contracts approved through MA SJV's business cases. Such works and services will be procured by the MA SJV (in observing EU procurement rules) on behalf of NCC and in certain defined circumstances Group companies and affiliates of the successful bidder/shareholders in the MA SJV may bid for such works in secondary procurements subject to satisfying conflict of interest requirements and Regulation 24. The MA SJV will not procure or contract manage its own group companies.

The contract term is initially 10 (ten) years but may extend to a total of 15 (fifteen) years. After year 10, the contract is renewable for up to five (5) years in annual or other increments by the Authority giving the MA SJV notice in writing six (6) months before the expiry of the initial term or an extension period if such extension period is less than five (5) years.

The contract term is initially 10 (ten) years but may extend to a total of 15 (fifteen) years. After year 10, the contract is renewable for up to five (5) years in annual or other increments by the Authority giving the MA SJV notice in writing six (6) months before the expiry of the initial term or an extension period if such extension period is less than five (5) years.

The Partner may be required to actively participate in the achievement of social and/or environmental policy objectives relating to recruitment and training and supply-chain initiatives. Accordingly contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations.

NCC is managing and conducting the procurement procedure on behalf of itself and the contracting authorities named on this OJEU Contract Notice.

The following bodies (Partnering Authorities) may access Strategic Services, Delivery Management Services and Integrator Services in relation to their estate assets, place and infrastructure objectives through the MA SJV subject to mutual acceptance of the Partnership Agreement concurrently with the Services Agreement:

Buckinghamshire County Council.

Central Bedfordshire Council.

Cambridgeshire County Council.

Milton Keynes Council.

South Northamptonshire District Council (& Cherwell).

Northampton Borough Council.

Daventry District Council.

East Northamptonshire District Council.

Northamptonshire Police.

University of Northampton.

Nene Clinical Commissioning Group.

Corby Clinical Commissioning Group.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.

Kettering General Hospital.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

The estimated total value in II.1.5 and II.2.6 represents the potential total demand of NCC and the Partnering Authorities over the maximum 15 year term. However, there is no exclusivity being granted in respect of these bodies using MA SJV services and values will depend on many commercial factors including uptake of services, schemes approved and the performance of the PSP. The estimated value of NCC's requirements within this arrangement is anticipated to be approximately 450 000 000 GBP.

The potential return to the PSP from delivering developed assets and providing services will depend on many commercial factors including (but not limited to) the number of schemes and services approved to be managed by the MA SJV, the performance of the PSP, market conditions, and the arrangements for financing activities and sharing returns agreed in establishing the MA SJV. Bidders should seek independent legal and commercial advice in relation to the potential value of the opportunity of the scheme as a whole.

The scope of the MA SJV opportunity includes providing Strategic Services, Delivery Management Services Integrator Services and Operator Services described in this notice but it does not include the direct provision of and performance of capital works or services approved in businesses cases through the MA SJV.

These will be procured by the MA SJV on behalf of NCC or the Partner Authorities listed in this notice in compliance with EU procurement rules.

As stated in Section II.2.4 above, group company subsidiaries or affiliates of the MA SJV or its shareholders may bid for delivery of such works in defined circumstances identified in the Services Agreement. MA SJV will also procure its own supply chain to provide the services to NCC and Partner Authorities.

Requests to Participate must be by way of completion and return of the Standard Selection Questionnaire (SQ) in accordance with the SQ Guidance and at the date and time specified in Section IV.2.2. above.

Further details about the scope and basis of this opportunity are set out in Volume II, Descriptive Document available as part of the procurement documents.

In accordance with Regulation 86 (Notices of decisions to award a contract), Regulation 87 (Standstill Period) and Regulations 91 (Enforcement of duties through the Court) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) (PCR 2015).

Following any decision to award a contract the authority will provide debriefing information to unsuccessful bidders (in accordance with Regulation 86 of PCR 2015) and observe a minimum 10 day standstill period (in accordance with Regulation 87 PCR 2015) before the contract is entered into.

Bidders should note that the authority reserves the right to vary, amend and update aspects of the procurement documents (without material alteration of its intent and content) and final details and versions will be confirmed to successful bidders who are selected pursuant to the SQ to participate in the further ISOS, ISDS and ISFT tender and dialogue stages.

The authority reserves the right not to award the opportunity or to award only part of the opportunity described in this contract notice.

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